Deep Impact on Ebay

[KarateKid25]

This one only has a few hours left and the price is starting to get up there...

Thought Id post it more out of interest in seeing what it goes for.

Deep Impact

[rodl2005]

OHHHH expensive.... Are they THAT good?

[KarateKid25]

I paid around $500 US for mine... Sometimes they are a bit cheaper. I have seen a couple go around the $750 mark! This is why they are interesting to watch. It really depends on who wants to buy one at the time!

Whether they are good or not is a matter of opinion. I love mine! One thing though, is that they are unique. Their digital technology can't be copied. Thats what makes them pricey. If you need that sound, you gotta pay for it

[ScottyBoy]

Thats expensive for a seller who has a feedback of 2!

[Jazz Ad]

Seriously this is ridiculous.
It's a great pedal but not worth that much at all.

[22w1st3d]

Originally Posted by ScottyBoy

Thats expensive for a seller who has a feedback of 2!

yeah im very suss on people with less then 10 fb who sell high priced stuff. learnt that lesson a very hard way. Paid $800 for a LowDown 300 from a guy in adelaide, the bastard skipped out on me.

but i have all his details, and very soon i will have my revenge....

[OrangeSun]

I'll never understand why Akai discontinued this pedal entirely. If they did runs of about 500 at a time every now and then, I'm sure they would be able to move them.

[Lowpro]

All the good pedals get discontinued...


As for this, I HATE using ebay for pedals. I've gotten 3 horror stories in a row.

Unless the feedback was 100% with over 500 remarks I really don't wanna try it.

Also, 500? I thought it was more in the 300 range.

[mactac]

Originally Posted by OrangeSun

I'll never understand why Akai discontinued this pedal entirely. If they did runs of about 500 at a time every now and then, I'm sure they would be able to move them.

it's not worth making 500 pedals. Think of the tooling, setting up the packaging, dealing with distribution, training their sales people, updating catalogues, sourcing & making deals for the parts, etc etc. It's not cheap to bring something to the market.

companies like akai don't make 500 of something that they make $100 on

[EricF]

Originally Posted by mactac

it's not worth making 500 pedals. Think of the tooling, setting up the packaging, dealing with distribution, training their sales people, updating catalogues, sourcing & making deals for the parts, etc etc. It's not cheap to bring something to the market.

companies like akai don't make 500 of something that they make $100 on

*DING* Nails it!

[Craig Garfinkel]

I bought mine for $169 just before being discontinued. I sold it for $250.

Anything, and I mean any thing, is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

I wish I had held on to mine until now. Or better yet, another year or two, assuming of course Akai doesn't reissue.

Supply and demand folks.

[markjazzbassist]

Originally Posted by KarateKid25

I paid around $500 US for mine... Sometimes they are a bit cheaper. I have seen a couple go around the $750 mark! This is why they are interesting to watch. It really depends on who wants to buy one at the time!

Whether they are good or not is a matter of opinion. I love mine! One thing though, is that they are unique. Their digital technology can't be copied. Thats what makes them pricey. If you need that sound, you gotta pay for it

+1

i paid around $500 for mine too. it's a unique pedal. if you're into trying to cop synth bass lines than it's a great pedal. or if you wanna cop muse's christ wolstenholme, it's good for that too.

[mactac]

Originally Posted by KarateKid25

Their digital technology can't be copied.

do you know that for a fact?

[spike2x]

Hi guys,
I live in Korea.
I bought this pedal for 50,000 won(KRW) last year.
50,000 won(KRW) is 52.79$.
But I sold it for same price.
In Korea, Deep Impact isn't expensive yet. But It is difficult to find seller.

[ElMon]

$500!?!?!?!? That's ludicrous, but yet, I still want one!!

[speak_onion]

Originally Posted by mactac

do you know that for a fact?

I think he means it's not like an analog pedal where you can open it up and look at the circuit and copy it. You can't just open up a Deep Impact, look at the chip and then code the same DSP. It's not that there's something in the DI that's impossible to replicate, it's just that it's impossible to reverse engineer it just by having the product.

[mactac]

Originally Posted by speak_onion

I think he means it's not like an analog pedal where you can open it up and look at the circuit and copy it. You can't just open up a Deep Impact, look at the chip and then code the same DSP. It's not that there's something in the DI that's impossible to replicate, it's just that it's impossible to reverse engineer it just by having the product.

that might not be true. some digital electronics are not impossible to reverse engineer, depending on what IC's are in them & how they work.

I was asking if he knows it for a fact, or if he's assuming.

If I had one here, i'd be able to tell you in about 2 seconds, but i don't

[niftydog]

Akai (or any manufacturer for that matter) would be monumentally stupid not to protect the DSP and microcomputer code in their products. So I'm around 99% convinced that you can't copy it without some very advanced tools at your disposal.

For those interested, the microcomputer is a Hitachi H8/3644 series chip, which has several levels of protection, and the DSP chip is an AKM AD7712A-VT.

[Monkey]

I was thrilled to death a couple of years ago to get ahold of a Deep Impact for a decent price. But, to be honest, I wasn't all that impressed. I only found a couple of sounds that really worked for me live, so I sold it for a modest profit and really haven't regretted it. I now use a Digitech Bass SynthWah, and while it might not quite have the mojo of the DI, it is good enough for me live, and I get positive comments when I use it.

No way would I pay $500 for one....

[niftydog]

Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

It's a great pedal but not worth that much at all.

Things are only "worth" what people are willing to pay for them - and plenty of people seem plenty happy to drop $500+ on them, so...