I’m a big fan of EH, for a start!
I think that made some great great pedals in the past (see Gilmour, Edge and zillion others).
If one spends some time reading the web will quickly realise that the early u2 Edge sound is still something hard to cover. There is no such product out there that can do it in an authentic good way.
Yes, rack stuff, but who is keen to drag around heavy and complicated boxes nowadays?
EH could ask Mr. Edge if he would be keen to do a memory man pedal with his name on it which could be the best out there for the job. It has the legacy, who else can do it if not EH? Very likely Mr. Edge wouldn’t use it since he moved on long ago from that sound but, hey! How many cover bands are in the world? Name one, I say 1 cover band on this globe which doesn’t have at least one U2 song in the set list!
Plus this myth that the new stuff is crap compared to the stuff made in the old good days is something extremely irritating. Why should be that way? Most of the time the new and improved stuff coming out today really sounds bad compared to the old stuff but … WHY? Are we not able to learn from mistakes? It should be easier to do better than worst!
Don’t know, not a tech myself, not a marketing person either, but I’m just trying to voice a thought that I believe is common among us guitarists, zillions of them judging from all the forums I read in the last few years…
My congrats to Eventide for the good things it produced and keep producing.