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now if i could just get Grant to return my messages he will have a sale  :-)

I called him from Australia and got his machine also emailed him, when 
we did chat earlier in the year ,he seems like a very nice guy, and I 
understand he is a one man show , so i do hope he can get to me before 
i  spend the money on something else :-)

Ross

 

drmabuce wrote:
>
> Hi cray
>
> congrats on your sudden good fortune.
> Paul has done a very thorough job of answering your questions. i'm
> just chiming in with a couple of comments of less substance..
>
> >
> > > It would be the best idea if I could get the woggle in a Eurorack
> silver
> > > faceplate I know it would be wide but it would be the best option for
> > > me.
> >
> > ...I'm going to gently suggest that the good doctor has plenty of
> work on
> > his schedule with orders from the normal production line, and maybe
> not so
> > much time or energy for one off projects in alternate formats? I'm just
> > saying. Grant has been very clear that the panel process and costs are
> > the biggest expense and (I think) hassle of the entire process.
>
> Amen,
> Panel/mechanical specs are the real devil in the details. Grant has
> standardized on his format in an effort to make his mostly
> one-guy-with-a-soldering-iron production methodology work -consistently-.
> The question of how much of a client-base that format gains or loses
> him is, IMHO, moot, because it is entirely his prerogative. If there's
> one aspect of the goings-on at Wiard World Headquarters with which i'm
> intimately familiar, it's the prolonged pain that Grant endured
> learning the hard lessons in balancing the commercial viability,
> personal satisfaction, innovation, and practical efficiency implicit
> in his choices for how to make a Wiard.
> Paul's 'gentle suggestion' is right on target. Custom work is
> expensive for everyone in the transaction. It costs the supplier in
> time, material and opportunity cost and it disrupts routines that
> generate the efficiencies of a production process. Keep in mind that
> when Grant is not occupied making modules he's inventing new ones that
> may be even cooler than the ones we already want. In accepting a
> custom order Grant must weigh-in the cost of what won't get done in
> order to devote time to the individual project. In order to keep
> Wiard going, Grant must pass his best guess at the cost of all these
> factors to the client in advance and when he guesses wrong , at least
> so far, he has ended up most often with the short straw.
>
> My observation is that even among veteran, experienced synthgeeks,
> very few realize that panel, pots, knobs and legending are some of the
> MOST complicated and expensive components of a module and the process
> of making one.
>
> i realize that the charge of hypocrisy can be leveled loudly and
> legitimately at me on this issue, since i have plunged myself in hot
> water before for declaring that form-factor is a non-issue and that
> 'the synthesizer is BEHIND the panel'
> But i realize that this is true only from my individual DIY
> perspective. It is indeed a trivial thing for me to grab my trusty
> ball-pean and bash a Wogglebug PCB off it's standoffs behind the panel
> and remount it in some scratchy lucite with banana jacks. But it is
> only trivial because i am providing my own labor, time, and planning
> (too often in exactly that exact order!)
> It is a very different kettle of fish to try to factor such ad-hoc
> flexibility into a PRODUCTION process. Grants decision to cling to his
> form factor is not some arbitrary fiat, it is a lesson that was
> 'etched on his shoulders by the lash of experience'.
>
> By far, the best way to get Wiard in custom formats is to get the
> rework done somewhere other than in the professor's basement.
>
> >
> > If you want to build one, see here:
> > http://diy.czmok.de/Group-Buys.66.0.html 
> <http://diy.czmok.de/Group-Buys.66.0.html>
> >
> > > Anyway if thats not a possibility I plan to get
> > >
> > > 2 x WFC (or one WFC and one Classic VCO)
> > > WoggleBug
> > > Borg Filter
> > > Sequentizer
> > > Envelator
> > >
> > > Id love owners opinions.
> >
> > That'll make a big beautiful noise :) I'm not sure you can go wrong
> with
> > ANY six modules from Wiard.
>
> i agree with Paul on this too
> your compement of modules looks well-thought-out and should equip you
> with some pretty formidable firepower. The sequantizer envelator combo
> is (IMHO) especially potent
>
> best wishes,
> -doc
>
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