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December 22, 2015 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Is EHX using the new MN3005XVIVE BBD chips in the new Memory Man 1100 Delays? #121118TarmogoyfMember
No shit.
He did NOT design the chip, consultant on the project or not. It’s a clone of the original Panasonic MN3005 chip, which he also did NOT design. Howard Davis sent Xvive some of his personal NOS MN3005 chips for them to base their clone on. They sent him prototypes, which he reviewed, until the point at which he thought they were good enough to be marketed.
Perhaps you’re just unfamiliar with the definition of the word design? Howard Davis approved, or Howard Davis reviewed, or Howard Davis endorsed would all be leagues more accurate than saying he designed the chip himself.
For example; a private collector has a mint condition 1966 Chevy Camaro. A small auto company wants to make replicas of the same car, so the collector loans them his car to make copies of. They check back with the original owner who lets them know, in his opinion, when they have everything right. Only Chevrolet and to some extent the smaller auto company doing the reproductions would be the designers of the car, and definitely NOT the collector who loaned them the car for a few months.
To say that Howard Davis designed the new MN3005 chips implies a level of involvement that did not take place. At no point did he live in China and help reverse engineer and then reproduce the chip. Howard Davis designs pedals, not microchips. Again with the auto analogies, that’s like saying the artists who design concept cars are also the engineers who build the engines. It’s all relative, but totally different parts of the whole picture.
December 22, 2015 at 2:25 pm in reply to: Is EHX using the new MN3005XVIVE BBD chips in the new Memory Man 1100 Delays? #121115TarmogoyfMemberAlso, Howard David designed the original Memory Man, not the XVIVE mn3005 chips. So you might want to to fix the title to this post, as it makes you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
December 22, 2015 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Is EHX using the new MN3005XVIVE BBD chips in the new Memory Man 1100 Delays? #121114TarmogoyfMemberCan anyone else confirm that they are the XVIVE MN3005 chips?
TarmogoyfMemberI’m having this exact same issue. Is it just normal because of the MN3008 chips and the pedal being analog, or is there an problem with the pedal?
February 3, 2014 at 12:38 am in reply to: History of Small Clones – identifying / categorizing, sonic differences, etc #119657TarmogoyfMemberQuote:I’m a douche and that’s good enough for me!ISBN number? And then specific page number? Any other sources stating this?
If I had a nickel for every time a magazine, book, or some fool on the internet got information about an artists gear wrong. . . .
Also, this would have been in early 90s so SAD1024 chips would have not been hard to find at all. Even now you can still commonly come across them on eBay for around $60 or so.
And why would he specifically mention that component and not any of the million others that would fail or break on an old Small Clone? And why would that one chip fail repeatedly causing him to keep needing them?
Sorry. Still sounds like bullshit.
February 2, 2014 at 8:02 pm in reply to: History of Small Clones – identifying / categorizing, sonic differences, etc #119655TarmogoyfMemberQuote:From 1979 to early 1981, EH used either the MN3007 delay chip or the RETICON SAD1024 one (the rarest). Although subtle, there’s definitely sonic differences between both. However, the most sought after unit is the 1024 one, mostly because this was the version used by Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain on the “Nevermind” recording and tour, as well as during the “MTV Unplugged” sessions.I’d say the SAD1024 delay chip is more “watery” sounding and adds a slight “boost” to the signal, while the MN3007 allows higher levels and less noise without signal clipping. No version is “better” than the other and it all comes down to personal preference, IMO.
Bullshit.
Unless you are Earnie Bailey, Nirvana’s guitar tech, which you are not, then you have absolutely no idea what chip was in Kurt’s Small Clone. All you are doing is making an assumption, based on your own personal opinion, and perpetuating bad information on the internet.
It’s simple: pix or it didn’t happen.
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