Coming up on Module #2000!
2001-05-11 by Paul Schreiber
I've been running around this week like a madman so much, it just dawned on me that I'm about to ship module #2000! The owner will get a coupon in the package, good for $200 off *ANY* module (yes, even VCOs) as my way of saying thanks! (lots of you have received the limited edition MOTM pen as well). We are shipping at well above 30% over last year's pace. Shane and Jeremy both garaduate in mid-June: I hope 1 of them will stay a little longer to help catch up! Shane is busy soldering up 9 VCOs (!!!) and Jeremy is kitting up '440s and then moving on to the '830 Mixer. The shippable backlog (ie not '830s) for kits is about 60 and for assembled has catapaulted up to over 85! We are going as fast a possible (what's new, says wife Tammy). So far this year (and remember, 'this year' didn't start until Jan. 18th) we have shipped about 460 modules. This is roughly the number shipped by mid-July, last year. The pace is such that module #2500 is easily this year, with maybe #3000 by year's end? If I don't go insane by then. Lastly, as a teaser: received the final, mastered version of Robert Rich's all-MOTM CD "Bestiary" and in a word(s): mind-blowing. I think it's safe to say that the only CD I have heard remotely like this is Wendy Carlos' "Beauty in the Beast". You play it straight through, and your first thoughts are "I have NO idea what that was I just listened to!" followed by."That's just amazing!". The ship date is in Sept (he wants to have a gap in between it and his 7 HOUR DVD 'Somnium' which just started shipping [highly recommended]). I hope that towards the release date he will allow some 'snippets' on the website. The dynamics are such that only .WAV files can do it justice. A sub-woffer (or really good speakers) is needed to hear what 4 MOTM-440s can do in the lower bass register. Well, back to work! Paul S.