ElmerJFudd Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Cort (Cor-Tek) has a huge infrastructure worldwide. They also produce guitars for other major brands including Ibanez, Squier, Manson and PRS. They’ve bought Digitech/DOD off Harman (previously acquired by Samsung). “We reported that the two brands had been removed from the Harman site earlier this month. It wasn’t the first time that there had been controversy about the effect pedal brand, as previously Digitech had fired all their staff back in May 2018. This included all Tom Cram and the entire Digitech/DOD design team. Thankfully, Tom went on to form Spiral FX.” https://www.gearnews.com/digitech-and-dod-acquired-by-cor-tek/ 2 Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Hopefully, good will come of that, including continued/extended customer service and support- which DigiTech had an extremely good reputation about, far above and beyond many other brands! I hope that Cort/Cor-Tek have the good sense and 'do the right thing' mentality to offer employment opportunities to many former DigiTech and DOD employees, too... My DigiTech GNX4 had some weak points, but it also had many very good and useful features! It was a GREAT control-center hub for live gigging, acting as both a 'pedals-platform clean-amp' and DI to PA and monitors, with a number of my favorite pedals in front of and after it as well as some of its own multi-effects offerings, and a real-live tube-amp in parallel with it (but NOT connected to it). See some of the I/O 'bells & whistles' below... The DOD Rubberneck analog echo (with an insert-patch for placing external effects within its delay-repeats feedback-loop!) and the DigiTech FreqOut seem pretty desirable and useful to me; I'll probably pick up each of those further on down the road... Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 This would be good news, indeed! DOD and Digitech produced some very innovative, and affordable, pedals & processors. I hated to see the whole thing get trashed, just so Samsung could acquire Harmon-Kardon's high-end audio. I wonder how long until they're fully up and running again? @Caevan O’Shite- Sadly, the Freqout has gone WAY up in price, but it's a GREAT device. I was a long-time fan of the original Boss DF-2 Feedbacker, and while the Freqout lacks the DF-2's built-in Distortion, you get many more options for dialing in Feedback tones. I've honestly thought of getting a back-up, in spite of the prices. 1 Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 I still have a Digitech GNX 2 that still works after many years of sitting in its case in my climate controlled shed. I just hooked it up the other day and tried it out, and it still works.. 1 Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Winston Psmith said: @Caevan O’Shite- Sadly, the Freqout has gone WAY up in price, but it's a GREAT device. I was a long-time fan of the original Boss DF-2 Feedbacker, and while the Freqout lacks the DF-2's built-in Distortion, you get many more options for dialing in Feedback tones. I've honestly thought of getting a back-up, in spite of the prices. I have and absolutely head-over-heels LOVE my old Maniac Music Sustainiac Model C, that mad scientist gizmo that clamps a vibrating-transducer onto the headstock to vibrate acoustic, harmonic-overtone feedback into the neck, strings and body of the guitar that it's so attached to. But I wouldn't mind a smaller, pedal-only device that yields almost the same results, more-or-less, without the cumbersome transducer and dangling cable! 1 Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 DigiTech made some great stuff. I still have my DT looper in line and it still works great after more than a decade of use...hope they make a comeback under Cort. 😎 1 Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 We'll have to wait and see what happens but Cort is a good company in my book, they've made many high quality guitars over the decades. I have a Digitech Element XP, which is a small multi-FX with an expression pedal. Some of the presets are surprisingly lush and usable. Some of them sound like the nightmares that people who work at busy Guitar Centers have, "Screechy Chi Chi plays faster than all the other sloppy shred-o-matic Heavy Metal Rodent Children and never stops." 2 Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Tom Cram was an incredible asset to DigiTech. Even though he has his own thing going now, hopefully Cort will make him an offer he can't refused to re-join the fold. Hey, maybe his Spiral FX could benefit from Cort's distribution muscle, and they could sweeten the deal by giving him a royalty for his designs. That would also give them "turnkey" new DigiTech products. I still have my GNX4, and it still works. I heard that someone sold the GNX4 book I wrote on eBay for something ridiculous, like $200! So I guess some people are still using it. DigiTech also did some great loopers. The iPB-10 was really clever, but their marketing people never made it clear you didn't need to use an iPad while gigging, you could use it as an offline programmer for a gig's worth of presets. And then very shortly after it was introduced, Apple changed the iPad connector and basically hosed the product...very unfortunate, but it also kind of underscores the dangers of relying on Apple hardware protocols. Hey Tom...if you're listening somewhere out there in outer space...check in and say "hi"! 2 Quote Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 13 minutes ago, Anderton said: I still have my GNX4, and it still works. My GNX4 was the hub of my gigging rig, going direct to PA and monitors, in parallel with a 'real-live' tube-amp, and with some favorite pedals before and after it; a real 'poor-man's multi-amp and effects' rig. Mine needs to be repaired, I'll have to get around to that. I loved all the I/O bells 'n whistles that the GNX4 had! 19 minutes ago, Anderton said: I heard that someone sold the GNX4 book I wrote on eBay for something ridiculous, like $200! I'd like to get a copy of that, myself! Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 10 hours ago, Caevan O’Shite said: I'd like to get a copy of that, myself! Unfortunately that was done before I converted over to doing eBooks exclusively, so I can't just send you a PDF. Maybe I should rip my one last copy apart, scan the pages, and sell it as a PDF. Not for $200, though 2 Quote Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Anderton said: Unfortunately that was done before I converted over to doing eBooks exclusively, so I can't just send you a PDF. Maybe I should rip my one last copy apart, scan the pages, and sell it as a PDF. Not for $200, though Let me know if and when you do, thanks! I currently have and LOVE a Strymon Iridium (and El Capistan, and Flint); but I bet that I'd find a good way to use the GNX4 with the Iridium, what with the GNX4's array of I/O and other features. When I get the GNX4 repaired and up and running again, that is. Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.