There seems to be some confusion out there about my products. They are not all limited edition. I understand why people think that. Its because I have a record of producing products for 1-3 years and then moving on to something else. However, in the current lineup of products, the only item I consider to be limited edition is the DiVision. The 2020S is about to become temporarily unavailable, but I assure you it is coming back. Once I sell out of this batch (I think there are 6 left) it will be several weeks before I have inventory again. I need to spend a little time altering the circuit board layout to make assembly easier and I need to then order a hundred boards. I also need to put in an order for more decals. My time is very limited right now, as I'm spread thinly across many projects. With your continued support I may be able to graduate to a multi-person company!
I caught up! All the DiVision orders received have been shipped and I have #26/68 built and on the shelf ready to ship. I plan to build another 3 this week and then focus on some other tasks... Including refreshing my inventory of the 2020S, 2020i, and TI Box. I'm trying to work through a minor revision to the Trinity design in any spare seconds I can find. I also have an interesting project on the bench, which is a custom order for 2 giant pedals. A dual channel all-tube guitar preamp pedal with a DI output, and quite literally, an LA2A compressor in a giant pedal. Yes, the exact LA2A circuit and components... in a huge pedal. As cool as that is, I have to stop accepting custom orders for a while... I'm getting too backed up. This order isn't due till September, but I'm spread across many jobs and there's really so little time in life. I have been thinking about bringing on part time help for the past month now. I said to myself (and a couple friends), if this keeps up for 3 months I'll have no choice but to bring on some help. I suppose that's a good problem to have. I have you and others like you to thank for that problem.
You may know already, but I recently decided to purchase an Amek Big 28 analog console for my studio. I was specifically looking for a board that was relatively inexpensive that I could modify to be as good as a board worth $50,000. The Amek Big seemed like the perfect candidate. It has automation and full recall just like a high end SSL console. The tone is where its good, but not great, and that's where I come in. I can't really take credit for the mods I'm prepared to do that this moment. Jim Williams of http://audioupgrades.com has been a tremendous help so far. Most of the great trinkets have come from his posts on the https://gearspace.com/ As you may know, LBA is a one-man operation. I'm under staffed and over worked. The DiVision webpage stated that the DiVision will begin shipping on or before May 4th, which is today. That is still true. The first 7 shipped out April 29th. On May 1st at 6:00 AM I left my little corner of New York on an airplane to Boise, Idaho. There I rented a minivan and picked up a large piece of equipment for LBA, which I bought online (making a video series about this). It was far to large to ship, so with the loaded van I drove 2,200 miles across the country in just 48 hours in order to be back to New York yesterday (Monday). During the trip I barely slept and almost only stopped for gas, so when I got back yesterday I took a shower and went to bed. Today I'm back to work. Before I left for this trip I made sure I had a bunch of DiVision's mostly built, so today could have a head start. I should be able to ship off at least 7 more DiVision's today. I'm shipping in the order they were received. Please understand it's difficult for me to build these and get them shipped out quickly if I'm distracted by email. I thought it would be easier to post this message here than to write to everyone to say sorry for any delays. If you placed an order, your DiVision is reserved and will ship as soon as it's built. All the parts are in stock to build these except for the transformers, but that's on me. I have about 15 transformers built and ready to go into DiVisions. I will probably need to take all of Thursday to build another 10 transformers, which should be enough to fulfill all the current orders. Hopefully, by Friday I'll be all caught up on your orders. Thank you very much for your support and patience!
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About the AuthorMike Congilosi II, Owner/Designer/Electronics Engineer at Lightning Boy Audio and Owner/Audio Engineer/Music Producer at LBA Studios. Archives
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