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David, I guess
you were the guy I spoke to when Clive handed me the phone today. I have deliberately
not mentioned the new revision of the Echoplex on the list, as it is due to be
launched at the Nashville show next week. However, Clive is renowned throughout
the music biz for having an incredibly large mouth and he can’t help himself. So now the
cat’s out of the bag: - This new
version is identical in operation to the one currently on sale, has the same
technical specifications and should in no way deter an imminent buyer from getting
one of the current ones with the up-grade from Kim. This new
model will primarily be shipped to EDP-starved Europe in a few months. The reason
for developing it, is to get a CE approved version for sale in the UK and
Europe, (previous versions could only be sold through retail in the US and
Switzerland who don’t really recognise CE). This has
cost Gibson about $30 000 and me personally, a lot of long days and over three
years to complete. We had to totally re-lay the PCB, make it 4-layer, add loads
of VHF filtering; a filtered mains inlet and some really groovy tinned-brass
screening cans for the processor and audio codec. Kim and Matthias have been
invaluable during the long process and when we finally got that CE-certificate,
it was definitely all worth it. We settled
on the name ‘Digital pro Plus’ to distinguish it from all previous non-CE
models. It will ship with Loop4 installed. We
reversed the colours on the front, again to distinguish it, but this is not finalised,
(I really like Matthias’ suggestion of wine-red with cream graphics). Gibson
honcho, Kevin Van Pamel will be listening to opinions at the show, where there
will be two fully spammed-up & working prototypes on display. I’m hoping
to get a huge order for these babies out of Gibson, as Clive will finally be
able to flood all his European distributors with them. This is almost as exiting
for the EDP, or is it now EDPP, as the much-revered Loop4 upgrade. This is
proof of Gibson’s commitment to continue to expand the horizons of the
Echoplex. Someday,
all people will own an Echoplex; Someday,
Kim & Matthias may actually make some money for all their hard work J Andy, Echoplex Slave,
I mean Production Manager. -----Original
Message----- just
talking ot a guy a trace elliot new
model due out, the echopled digital pro PLUS it's
the same except cosmetics, black with white writing [as opposed to te other way
round] anyone
seen any pics ???? David
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