NEWS
EP-PRE backlog is now less than a month.
Thanks largely to Mandy’s hard work, we are now shipping EP-PRE pedals that were ordered in March 2010.
We had planned to finally release some new pedals by early March. I missed the deadline because we were concentrating on catching up with the EP-PRE backlog. The new deadline is mid-May.
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.