fwiw, this is actually a rather big job — one nice thing about the old EHX site (the one that preceded the Flash-based site that preceded the one we have up now) was that Andromeda (my MP3 server software) did all the busywork — and, fwiw, the audio clips weren’t on the previous Flash site — so they haven’t been available for close to a year.

Meaning, with Andromeda, we just made folders and subfolders, and copied the MP3 files in — and Andromeda then automatically turns all of that into a complete site that you can browse and play.

But now there’s no simple way to get them up — again, I’m totally open to specific suggestions?

Yet another great catch F&EHX;– you have a sharp eye!

Here’s a screencap:

I think he’s great. I had first stumbled onto this video a while back, and just loved it — and then I happened to notice the EHX in it — and that is partly what lead to the idea of having user-generated videos on the new EHX site.

I’ve posted a few other Conte clips to the blog, and he has now produced a few “official” clips for us (the Bass Muff, Deluxe Mistress, and Holiest Grail). But the EHXs in his version of The National Anthem are all just his editing choices (ie, we had nothing directly to do with this clip, other than that some EHX pedals are contributing to his sound).

The miserable thing is that all of my wonderful old stuff is probably long gone (Instant Replay, Space Drum, Domino Theory, Three Phase Liner, and on, and on). Since I grew up with the stuff, it was always “just there” — same goes for Mike, I’m sure he wishes he still had copies of all sorts of things — “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

When I was in junior high/high school, I used to keep a massive pedal setup — enough that the cumulative noise would start to play itself. In college, I had to downsize, and wound up with my Graphic Fuzz and 16 Second DD — more recently, I really like the Tube Zipper. In fact, working on the new EHX site has got me excited to dig around and try my mothballed pedals again. (I even have some ideas about TOTALLY NEW pedals…

Well, perhaps not quite as crazy as a phase shifter that you wear as a necklace — but I can add to the story…

For a short while, Electro-Harmonix actually had a little outlet within Bloomingdale’s (a fancy department store in NYC) that sold the EHX light art. It was a little room decked out to look like something from Alien, black molded-plastic walls, covered with LEDs, and staffed by classically freaky EHX folks. For anybody that might remember the 48th street store, it was like that, but transplanted into Bloomingdale’s.

It kills me to see the stuff that Ron has.

There was a nice little Sovtek Midget Combo tube amp — but the EHX Freedom Amp wasn’t tube (it’s portable/battery) — in addition to the post with Yngwie and his Freedom Amp (here), there’s another about the Ramones’ first gig at CBGB (here)…