MOTM

Since it's cooled to 98F at 11PM, I can stop sweating long enought for an
update.

1) Except for recent orders, the kit backlog is ZERO! Unless you ordered
something and it's lost on the hard drive.
So, if you think I owe you any KITS, please email privately.

2) MOTM sales continue to thrive. As of today, the 2001 shipments are equal
to ALL of 2000 shipments! The main
factor was Robert's review in Electronic Musician. And word of mouth, and
the nice demo files (if you haven't heard
Ken's jaw-dropping brass demos, download immediately!!!)

The last 3 weeks were concentrated on kits. Since July 5th, we shipped 188
kits. Thats pretty mind-boggling. I
went through 32 cubic feet of peanuts! In fact on Monday I have to stock up.

Angie is making up 15 VCO kits this week. After Monday, the only kits low in
stock (say <5) are the '440 and '101.
All others I have >12 kits. Angie leaves us next Friday to go back to
school. That leaves JUST ME (sniff sniff).

Starting Monday, I'm concentrating on reducing the assembled backlog. I only
have stuffed pcbs (from Shane's
tenure) for about 70% of the orders. Then, I have to be the tech (I'm good
but slow). Those of you with assembled
orders will need to tough it out while I solder away. The first 70% will
take me about 2 weeks to ship. The remaining
30 with take about 4 weeks after that to ship. Remember, I have a 'real' job
and I fit MOTM in the gaps. The last 3
weeks I was on vacation, so I was 100%. That ends Monday :(

I am not going to start on the '130 Dual VCA until I ship 70% of the
assembled backlog. Time to patch and play :)

I can ship kits now within 48 hours. So, that is SOME good news.

Well, that's all for now. Thanks again to everyone, thanks to Angie for
kitting over 180 modules by herself.

Paul S.