<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Chris Hewitt is ridiculous. <div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Recently posted this to AH:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I bought a non-working Marshall Time Modulator from Chris Hewitt, author / director of “He Wasn’t Just the Fifth Member of Joy Division”.. who sold a shedload of Factory-era gear from Martin Hannett. I wanted some of that Hannett mojo, and paid way more than I should. I received it, and it was questionable. I wrote David Kulka — known for his repair and parts for byzantine studio gear, like.. Marshall Time Modulators. He purchased the remains of the estate of Steven St. Croix, including the notoriously impossible to repair MTMs. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I sent him these shots of the supposed Hannett owned MTM:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B055qXGF1q3v4s" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B055qXGF1q3v4s</a> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He immediately identified this from a series of prototypes / parts machines were sold on eBay to buyer named Chris, in the UK. Chris had printed up Dymo labels to say “Hannett MTM”, etc and resold them with a signed copy of his book as a means of trying to cash in on Martin’s legacy. Sad! </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I shipped it to him, and found one from Hamish Jackson of MJQ. He collected my MTM from Jamie from Britannia Row Studios, and claims it was used on Pink Floyd, and who knows what else. Coil, New Order, Section 25, and Joy Division recorded there, which was ok by me.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Fuck that Chris Hewitt guy. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Todd<br class=""></span><div class=""><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></font></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 22, 2020, at 8:58 PM, Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">I scored a 2700 at a flea market. After a few days I got the oscillator started and listened to the signal path.<div>There’s just nothing there to like.</div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Benjamin Tremblay</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 21, 2020, at 4:59 AM, Tom Bugs <admin@bugbrand.co.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>Before my son was born, I used to regularly look through ebay for
parts/repair items (usually a bad habit!) - that 'Martin Hannett'
seller cropped up quite regularly, the items overpriced &
never seeming to shift.<br>
(Hey, who wants to pay £800 for a really poor old mixer that
hasn't been tested?!)<br>
Idly looking again the other day & saw another such advert -
wow, the seller is *still* at it! - strikes me slightly as dogged
perseverance trying to slowly sell this stuff.<br>
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