Gear preview 2017

[echorec]

I guess if you break it into sections and think of it like 3-4 devices in one, then $700 is fairly reasonable. The Glou-Glou stuff is about $620 US without all the patching capabilities. So it's not exactly alone at the top of the pyramid.

Like Inconuucl commented, I'd just that money toward an actual synth. I guess if guitar is your singular means of expression, though, then there is a limited market for something like the Sonicsmith stuff.

[chrisdermo]

agreed.

[echorec]

It looks like the Micro Dream is starting to ship.

https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=micro+dream

[toothsome]

^ i don't even remember hearing about this, is this just a regular ass delay?

also what's the deal with the EHX canyon? when it was anounced it seemed like it was an 'available now' kind of thing but I went to guitar center in union square ( ) and they didn't have it in their system, and it's still on pre order on sweetwater...do we have a date?

[echorec]

^ i don't even remember hearing about this, is this just a regular ass delay?

also what's the deal with the EHX canyon? when it was anounced it seemed like it was an 'available now' kind of thing but I went to guitar center in union square ( ) and they didn't have it in their system, and it's still on pre order on sweetwater...do we have a date?

I think it was briefly mentioned in the NAMM thread.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElyHCnywj8E[/youtube]

Re: the Canyon, the pre-order pages were up prior to NAMM, but I can't find any merchants with a hard arrival date. Zzounds is usually amongst the first dealers to put up an exact date and their page just says "arriving soon." Generally EHX doesn't make buyers wait, so I would expect it be available quite soon.

I can share a little bit about some other NAMM delays though. It looks like the Seymour Duncan Andromeda and the DOD/Digitech Rubberneck analog delay are both expected at dealers as early as the week of April 3rd.

[echorec]

UK synth builders, Digitana, are currently developing a pocket module called the HALia.

Another new project being developed in collaboration with The Future Sound of London. This is an all digital 'pocket' synth using multiple powerful ARM-based microcontrollers. Sonic possibilities are endless. Everything from huge pulsating multi-oscillator drones, FM-synthesis to Buchla-esque noodlings (and everything in between) are all possible. Imagination is the only limit!

Details and audio samples to follow.

Sputnik Modular's Roman Filippov is working on a revamped CS-80, which will be available pre-built or as a DIY kit. This rack CS-80 will be an 8-voice recreation of the powerhouse polysynth, which was most famously used by Vangelis for the Blade Runner score.

For the uninitiated, the CS-80 took Yamaha years to develop and weighed in at over 200 lbs. It featured a primitive preset system, which was aided by a hidden panel and micro pots. In the coming years, analog synths and processors would require digital components, in order to store and recall user settings. An original CS-80 can fetch $18,000 - 25,000 on the secondhand market. If Filippov can keep the kit around $2000-2400, then I imagine there will be significant demand for these.

http://www.matrixsynth.com/2017/03/new- ... s.html?m=1

[lordgalvar]

Sputnik dude needs to get his current brand going/support his products before taking on more. He has more shown prototypes than he has in production. He was supposedly having a licenced haible frequency shifter that vanished.

His stuff is built by dark place at the moment.

[popvulture]

Oy, Deckard's Dream. That design. Can the back panel be the front panel?

[echorec]

Got to play with a friend's Monkey this wknd and it was better than expected.

I guess you could say it was the auditory equivalent of a gummy worm: soft, gooey, and bendy. With a C&G Pocket Piano it really sounded like the modulation I always wanted to get out of the Zvex Lo-Fi Instant Junky, but never quite could.

[Strange Tales]

I'm going to build one of those fucking Deckard's Dream if it's the last thing I do. He posted the expander on Instagram and it has chorus and that great ring mod on it as well.

Tax return awayyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

[echorec]

Lost in the chaos of NAMM, Zvex actually unveiled a few new products for 2017.

One is an optical version of last year's $6,000 candle-powered modulation device in a $199 vexter format (coming in April). He's also doing a 'Tea Ball Microphone' for $249 (also April).

In addition to the Vibrophase, he's going to be making vertical versions of some older designs like the Fuzz Factory.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BskCgIhgPH8[/youtube]

[Eivind August]

Pedal version of the modulation thingy sounds neat! Might have to look into that, despite my dislike of modulation. Vertical Zvexes might be a godsend for many people, but they look sorta sacrilegious to me.

[Invisible Man]

BUT WHY NO TOP JACKS

[Jwar]

Cause who cares?

[D.o.S.]

Literally everyone.