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Akai Deep Impact Petition?

svenbass

svenbass

Dec 12, 2002
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#1
Here's an idea, maybe a long shot. It seems that the lust for the Deep Impact has driven the used market to astronomical levels, so why don't we petition them to do a re-issue? I don't know how difficult it would be for them, but I would assume that if they were presented with a solid, and well organized demand for a product that has already been engineered, they might be game. I wouldn't know how to go about creating an easily accessible online list, so if anyone has any ideas, fill me in. If there is enough interest I'll do my best to see it through.

The other option is to surround the factory with 400 bassists and threaten to all solo at once. At the very least, they would probably pay us to leave! :D
 
#3
Jazz Ad said:
They sell on eBay for about the same price they did new.
This pedal was pretty much a commercial failure. They only started selling when they went on sales.
Anyway you'd need more than a petition to achieve that. You'd want pre-orders.
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I don't know how they sold when they were being made, but they now fetch about $300- $500 here in the United States used on ebay or here at talkbass.

That's a lot more than the price when it was being made. Maybe it has now come into its own at too late a time. I've got one, love it and haven't even explored it beond the presets. It's a great pedal.
 
#7
Like we don't know ourselves huh? We will scoff at the RI prices because the original units have a "warmer, more organic sound". Thus driving OI prices higher and guaranteeing that the overpriced RIs will bomb. This is why Akai will never make them again :)
 
#9
Aren't musicians just pathetic in that way? I spent around $350 on a used Digitech Whammy for just that reason. When I put the two side by side I couldn't tell which was which. If there is indeed a difference between new and re-issue, it takes better ears than mine to sort that out.

Glenn
 
#12
What if someone made a clone instead? There will probably be patent problems (or is it copyright?) but a clone will not have to suffer through the inevitable new vs old comparisons.

We all know the company that can pull this one off. :hyper: and sell it for under 100 clams.
 
#14
Jazz Ad said:
What if a company bothered making a brand new synth instead ?
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There was a thred recently where someone mentioned a pedal called the "wolftone chaos" and said it got very synthy.

Remember that synth, is basically fuzz, filter and octave in myriad combinations. I can get good synth sounds from my fuzz, mutron and boss oc-3.

[My favourite ones still come from my Deep Impact ;)]
 
#17
I don't want a reissue..... mine is worth more every day I hold onto it. I go to flea markets trying to find them. I'm just waiting for the Canadian dollar to tank back down and I'll sell it off to one of you great folks in the U S of A.

The last one I was watching on evilBay went for 544 CND. Considering I got mine for 325 CND... it's almost like Google stocks.
 
#20
Wow, I had no idea these were going for so much used, but I'll probably never get rid of mine. Bought it used a few months after they came out for about $150, and I love it. Best synth pedal I've used, after a Korg G5 (always sounded kind of thin and weak, though it had one very sibtle envelope filter setting I liked), and EH Bass microsynth (really a different breed of effect, fun and chaotic, but not reliable) and a boss SYB ( sounded OK, but didn't track very well). The Akai tracks in a very musical way, it's totally responsive, and sounds great.
 

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