This is an absolutely amazing tool and is one of the main reasons I keep buying stuff from Thomann - I'm looking at a pedal, see the little Stompenberg FX demo popup and I can try it out right from my home! It's great and has definitely directly influenced some of my purchases. Hope they never get rid of it!
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After doing my research: Thomann is a very large reseller (1700 employees according to wikipedia) in musical equipment. What's the story behind how a reseller got into designing custom raspberry pi add-on boards to demo third party pedals online?
Thomann are a brilliant company, old school customer service, competitive prices, great selection. I hate that Brexit has made buying from them not worth it.
They're still managing to ship to the UK. You lose all the consumer protection (thanks, Conservative party!) and have to pay VAT and import dues (thanks, Conservative party!) but they're managing. They're still a fab company.
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#43More details here: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/stompenberg-fx-speaker-simula...
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#44There's also a video showcasing this project over at their synth channel at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lBYRQUTzYk
He talks crap. Housing staid on and what you see is just the control boards...
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
After doing my research: Thomann is a very large reseller (1700 employees according to wikipedia) in musical equipment. What's the story behind how a reseller got into designing custom raspberry pi add-on boards to demo third party pedals online?
They also are behind the design of Harley Benton branded instruments, which are made in China although under a decent quality control. I have two HB 5 string basses, the former was the bare minimum I could afford to move to the 5 strings world and see how I adapted to it. That bass wasn't great but it was well set up and tuned, had a decent neck binding, the electronic was really quiet and the sound, although a bit r…
My dream guitar was a Gibson Double Cut Special, because of Johnny Thunders. I finally got one for almost €3000 but hated it and returned. Then, Harley Benton released a similar model for less than €200 and it became my favourite guitar. They're amazing little instruments.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
After doing my research: Thomann is a very large reseller (1700 employees according to wikipedia) in musical equipment. What's the story behind how a reseller got into designing custom raspberry pi add-on boards to demo third party pedals online?
According to their blog posts it was a contract work by another company: https://feinarbyte.de/projekte/stompenberg/ (german site)
Their name seems to be a pun on "Feinarbeit", or "fine work". I love how Germany is full of those small, super-specialised tech companies.
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#47There’s a couple of similar SaaS services for analog studio equipment -
https://mixanalog.com (also has a couple of analog reel to reels)
Both really good if you want full remote access to analog studio hardware worth thousands that you don’t use often enough to buy.
You can also use multiple together and chain them however you want
If there was an open source hardware/software solution for this, or some kind of easy to use platform for people to list their gear, I think a lot of people would “rent” their gear online
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#48Wow this is awesome, as an IT guy working with webrtc/voip, a hobbyist guitar player and electronic aficionado this looks amazing. Kudos to all the team working on this.
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#49Is there some mute button I'm missing? I've tried with both Chrome and Edge to play the pre-recorded riffs for a few different pedals and am not getting any sound. I verified I have volume on my end with a youtube video.
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Yeah. Makes you wonder why the PI was even needed.
Well, it's a well-engineered, -documented, and -supported stable platform to handle computing needs for that giant board. Makes perfect sense, I think.
I know. I was making a bit of a joke. It's a very impressive build. ;-)