(Wohl keine Lust mehr! )
Nachgelegt vom Meister:
"OK, I pretty much HAD to give the Pearl Demon a Smithie award. It attracted a lot of attention and it is a welcome change from the regular Eliminator. But in a way, I didn't want to give it one. Why not? Because I really didn't see anything new here (and for personal reasons I'm glad!) and I had high expectations. For the most part, this is a reconfiguration of the standard pedal as we have come to accept it. If the geometry was set up the same, in a blind test I probably couldn't tell this pedal from a Trick or an Axis or a DW or the Taye XP1. Indeed, this pedal draws heavily from all of those - and for the record it wasn't me who was said that, but everyone at the show who mentioned the Demon pointed that out. I'm biased here. The product designer in me looks at this pedal and what I see is a designer spending too much time looking at bass drum pedals. And as with 99% of new bass drum pedals, at the end of the day, when it's time to put the last piece on the pedal someone says "Where's the box of five cent springs?". The same spring thats on every pedal in Hall D (with one noteable exception). The spring IS the thing."
Aus seiner super Fotogalerie zur Namm 2009.
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