HE is back.

fonik · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: HE is back.

yes, HE is back...
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-16985-175.html

i am curious, what happens next. he is talking about "his board" - did i miss something? did he eventually manage to launch his business?

blue hell · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:49 am Post subject:

Sharp eye .. I totally read over that ... maybe I smoked the pots myself Shocked

I'm curious as well what will happen next ... I forgot the details of the agreement between Howard and <he>

Tim Servo · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: HE is back.

Verrrrrrry interesting...

I did notice him at the AH Nor Cal show a few months back. I'm assuming he's made good with everyone who ordered VCQFG boards / etc. from him, right?

I did notice that he said these are different from "my boards," so I hope that doesn't morph into something more.

Just have to wait and see, unless there is some other agreement between he and Mosc.

Tim (nervous nellie) Servo

Scott Stites · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:52 am Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject:

The prince of darkness, and his googly-finger, appointing Shocked

But, strange. Randal hasn't been back since this strange re-appearance. Perhaps he had a momentary lapse in taking his medication? (or a PM from Mosc??) Shocked

fonik · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject:

Tim Servo · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

A presence dark invades the fair,
and gives the horses ample scare,
for chaos reigns and panic numbs,
when something wicked this way comes.

Tim (that's from a Lexus ad, believe it or not) Servo

http://www.phobos-deimos.com/History/SWTWC/SWTWC.htm

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:56 am Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:15 am Post subject:

i am sorry to hear that.

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:38 am Post subject:

It's probably a good thing (cos i thought that they were a bunch of ignorant c***s). It was a technician's job, and I got blamed for the CEO's shortcomings (ie he is incompetent). It seems that this is normal practice so these arseholes can buy more time when they have been the leader of that company for 1.5 years and still have no product to sell/ show to the shareholders (which was the case).

Capitalism- you gotta love it Laughing

fonik · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:10 am Post subject:

HE contacted me today via PM. it has been a longer PM, but he tried to be helpful. his comments on the quantizer and my questions about this project seem not to be a google-copy-paste-thing.

i wonder what his plan was - if he had a plan...

i did not answer him yet, and i am not quite sure how to communicate his answers in the quantizer thread. i will have think about it.

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:24 am Post subject:

Somehow HE doesn't scare me as much as some of these latest religious nutters do Shocked

Just don't reply. This was Thomas's mistake! Shocked

blue hell · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:03 am Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:33 pm Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:16 am Post subject:

He's back again Shocked

and this time he's armed with an Ondes Martenot! Shocked

Give me Gary Rea any day!!! Evil or Very Mad

frijitz · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject:

Another sighting --

http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/topic-5204-0-80.html

Conclusions? Draw your own.

Very Happy

Ian

Scott Stites · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject:

Yeah - Bill tells me a couple of weeks ago Randal hit him up for a preview of the Appendage schematics so he could understand things better. Bill declined.

frijitz · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject:

Outrageous! Evil or Very Mad

And apparently he has suckered Bearblock into a licensing agreement. Rolling Eyes

Ian

Scott Stites · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

I've got a good idea his request had something to do with this:

http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/topic-4619-0-0.html

Shocked

Classic Randal:

fonik · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject:

bugbrand · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:44 am Post subject:

I too am very curious about how this goes.. Again he is full of 'helpful' tips all over the place and has MASSIVE plans.. How it develops is going to be really interesting.

First contact I had with him this time around was to kind of warn him that he should be very aware not to repeat the EM fiasco (which I really only saw the direct results of - I didn't, obviously, receive all the messages/phones that you guys did at that time).

At that point he said, basically - worry not, I have learned from that and will be selling via Analogue Haven.
Since then, though, it certainly has changed to direct buy (at least in part)

Thing is he does have at least some parts moving forwards in really interesting ways - the ideas for the cases DO sound pretty amazing and the case picture he posted recently looks, quite frankly, amazing. This is tempered somewhat by the fact that still he has been promising so many things, often with words like 'tomorrow' & 'next week' and still things take longer -- I know only too well that delays DO happen, but I guess one large problem in the EM fiasco was how he handled those delays (ie he was sh*t)

I actually am very keen for this to work out - the products he's design should be very, very welcome in the modular world. Interesting and varied designs with good prices - everything appears quite scalable too so you can get one case, or a larger one etc and also get PSU & buss or just plain for your own DIY.

For me, IF (& when) this does begin moving, I'd actually be very happy not to have to work on cases myself. While I find it interesting to explore that part of manufacturing I also have found it quite a headache and it takes away from other work.

I do certainly get the point you guys are making and the PlanB comment is quite pertinent (that issue is f-ing dreadful too). However, for the moment I am keeping a relatively open mind (though, of course, with memories in!)

Scott Stites · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

Yep, he's seemed to have worked out some interesting rails, cabinets etc, which may be a vocation more up his alley. His knowledge on machining that kind of stuff strikes my untrained mind as something more than googular. I sure as hell couldn't do that kind of stuff even if I had the tools to do it with. The electronic ideas/advice he posts are cut and pasted nearly word-for-word from things I've read elsewhere, so Google is still his friend, and I wouldn't hold my breath on any of his electronic offerings.

The grand scale of things is the key. But, then again, thanks to the Plan B fiasco, forever has a new scale itself, so he may end up smelling like a rose, if not an atypically manic one at that. And one would probably expect to wait much longer for a cabinet like that than a simple PCB.

Tim Servo · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:04 am Post subject: HE is back.

Well, I hate to say it, but this again sounds like over promising and under delivering. I've read his descriptions of the cases he's proposing and personally they sound like a fairly complex bit of design. Yes, you can theoretically design a case that would accomodate both Frac and Euro modules, but it quickly becomes complicated by things like the plethora of different panels widths and mounting hole locations (especially amongst Euro equipment). On top of that, he's proposing to make it a simple bolt together solution, and it's expandable, and it folds, and he's got a perfect power supply / distro solution, and and and and. Believe me, I design mechanical stuff for a living. It's not that simple.

On top of that, his latest message states that there's a delay because one of his machine tools broke. First off, that sounds like a handy excuse. But even if this is the truth (and stuff like that DOES happen... we've all been there), I think it's a huge mistake trying to sell mechanical components if you're doing even part of the work yourself. It's very time consuming, and you really want to farm this out to a place that is set up to do this stuff quickly. This would be like me trying to sell PCBs, and making them by hand etching and drilling each one. The downside is that you have to order larger quantities, but that's the ONLY way to keep the quality up and the price down.

I don't wish the guy any ill will and I hope I'm wrong about all this, but like I said, I design stuff like this for a living and it just sounds like too much too soon. This is a very ambitious project, and I don't see it happening without some really good mechanical engineering and a major investment in components. Time will tell, but this is all sounding way too familiar...

Tim (something dorky this way comes) Servo

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject:

I don't even wanna know! Rolling Eyes