NEWS
As announced on our Home Page, ClinchFX is finally back in action.
Thanks largely to Mandy’s hard work, in the final two weeks of January 2010, we completed 20 EP-PRE pedals and have another 20 partly assembled. We have another 60 EP-PRE boxes drilled and waiting for powder coating. We plan to ship at least 100 EP-PRE pedals during February 2010.
We plan to finally release some new pedals by early March - keep watching!
FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)
I’ve been told that there is a post on a forum claiming that I don’t have a Degree in Electrical Engineering. Guess what - it’s dead right, I don’t have a degree in EE or anything else. I began my studies in electronics on January 16, 1967, as a Technician-in-Training with an Australian Government department that supplied all telephone and radio, and even postal communications within Australia at that time. I was selected for Radio Division. Radio Division training was more electronics intensive than telephone training, and was effectively equivalent to current Diploma level training. The course was “in-house” and had no publicly recognised qualification. After I left that organisation, I applied for, and was granted, a Trade Certificate in Electronics, based on the training I had received.
From 1970 I ventured to the “Dark Side” working on computers with IBM for 14 years, in the days when an understanding of electronics was necessary for computer servicing.
From then on, I have continued to work with and study electronics. I undertook my most recent courses in both electronics and computer networking between 2000 and 2003.
A few years ago, I worked as assistant to a brilliant engineer who couldn’t understand why anyone would want to purposely create distortion - lol. He just didn’t get the concept of a distortion pedal. Maybe I’m better off without a degree;-D All the same, if I hadn’t worked with him on designing amplifiers with almost theoretically perfect phase response, I may never have recognised the importance of phase response in the EP-3 preamp - who knows??
Peter.