Sleepwalk with eTap2hw

[Twang46]

Hi Jeanclaude21

excellent enregistrement...............Bravo

Dick

Box works ok for me.

[David Martin]

Un beau son, et sa musicalité excellente...

Félicitations!

[jeanclaude21]

Hello,
Thank you for your comments
Regards
JC

[Echotapper]

Great playing!!!!!

BTW we could add 400€ (development/labour/profit cost they 100% avoid)to the kit so it's in the same ballpark as others?I promise to send it to a good cause like Mc Donal houses.

Piet

P.S. Here some calculation I've published in feb 2011 in my blog to show how cost calculations are done if commercial interest (read profit) plays the prime reason in producing effect gear for this community:

As all of the activities done are based on labour of love[*1] it is therefore free stuff. Most people would conclude it’s not up to the standard compared with what you can buy. Let’s do some calculations here:

Developing the eTAP2HW module estimated cost is 300 hours [*2] development = 6000 Euro + 80 hours patch development = 6080 Euro + acquired software = 300 = 6380 Euro + required hardware 140 Euro (development board), 80 Euro programmers = 7000 Euro

When I would sell 100 units the cost per unit would be ((7000/100) +64)*3 = 402 Euro Each!! Yes the “rule of thumb” is UMC+development times 3 in the industry

When I would sell 500 units the cost per unit would become ((7000/500) +64)*3 =234 Euro.

I’ve not taken into account the enclosure pots and switches!

There is no sane commercial person in the world that would even considering taking the risk in building this and making money out of it. So it’s an unique module with extended capabilities you never can acquire through commercial channels.

My benefit in this whole is just curiosity and learning ways of achieving goals that are difficult to get like climbing a mountain. Obviously I’ve learned allot in my working life that directly affects this product.

[*1] It’s always a winter project but rain could also regarded as “project time”. The main objective is for me to investigate,learn and demonstrate it can be build.

[*2] based on eTAP2 VST metric

Piet

[roger bayliss]

Piet just a simple thankyou for your efforts

[David Martin]

Piet just a simple thankyou for your efforts

Here, here!

[shadowmaniacs]

JC said : This is especially for my French "friends" who dismiss the eTap2-hw because [color=#FF0040]they don't have enough technical skills to understand it. They discard it because it's not expensive enough ! rather appalling...[/color]

I'm a little bit surprised about such a sentence from a Fan Club manager.
It seems he's considering french Shadows fans like " idiots " about That Sound, and he's also considering nobody is able to understand anything in electronics.
He's not the only one to work on sounds and all ways are interesting to be tested.
Most of french Shadows players are doing now with VST programs and feel this is the easiest way to get That Sound, more when they're playing live.This is not the case of JC.

I dont understand too the meaning of cost allusion ?

The eTap2 is a nice way to do, we are glad to listen those who are playing with, and all the ways to be closer to the original have to be tested, but it's not really friendly to be treated so.

Michel

[Didier]

JC said : This is especially for my French "friends" who dismiss the eTap2-hw because [color=#FF0040]they don't have enough technical skills to understand it. They discard it because it's not expensive enough ! rather appalling...[/color]

I'm a little bit surprised about such a sentence from a Fan Club manager.
It seems he's considering french Shadows fans like " idiots " about That Sound, and he's also considering nobody is able to understand anything in electronics.

Don't worry Michel, it's not intended for you, but only against a few ones who dismiss anything done by others...

Didier

[GEGE]

Didier, whether some people are concerned, it would be preferable to wash our dirty linen at home.
GEGE

[Stratstroker]

Having just received my valve preamp eTap2HW from Ecca I would like to add my thanks to Piet for all his hard work developing this marvellous piece of kit, and also to Ecca for putting it in a form I can actually use. I will give some more detailed thoughts on it when I've played around with it a bit more (and put heavy strings on my CS54 Strat!)

Al