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Pete

PS:IMO the demonstrator and the demonstration did not do it justice.

Hi Pete

The unit does sound good but I agree with you 100% on the demo. Very disappointing.

Cheers.

Tony

I can see that "Guitarist" doesn't want to get involved in copyright issues with the publishers of Apache, The Frightened City, Wonderful Land, etc, but that demo was effectively pointless.

It's hard to see that anyone would be impressed by it.

Shads fans simply aren't hearing what the unit is designed to do and other sorts of buyers aren't hearing anything that (as far as they are concerned) can't be done by a digital unit costing a quarter of the price of the H & C machine.

As Jim says, copyright plays a part here, hence no actual Shadows tunes being demonstrated.
The demonstration does seem a bit lacklustre, though. It's a bit, "Well I've got to do this" and going through the motions.
One of my mates makes similar demo videos for Seymour Duncan; new pick up's, signature pick up's, effect pedals and so forth.
However, whilst equally restricted by copyright, my mate always puts a lot of thought, imagination and work into his demo's, and often records and films himself playing to a backing track, more often than not, of his own creation. Crucially, he also plays with emotion on all of his demo's.
So, hopefully Hall and Collins won't be relying on the demo in question as their main promotion and selling point!
Plus, I'm not sure the gentleman who is demonstrating the echo unit (? I'm a drummer!) necessarily knows all the tunes he is supposed to be, er, demonstrating the sound for!

Possibly the worst demo I have ever seen.

He missed the whole point of the pedal!

Apart from not playing any of the tunes it was designed for he used a Telecaster with a hard tail bridge

Phil.

Poor demo, don't think he was even aware of the significance of the patches he was using.

I thought the recent extension to 70 yrs copyright applied only to music released from 01 Jan 1963

So for example the Shads early hits 60-62 are now out of copyright surely ?

Dick.

He didn't have to play Shads tunes, all it needed was some single note phrases dampened and otherwise to let people hear the echoes, instead of sitting there strumming chords like a dummy. I'm surprised that he didn't use a fuzz box.

he was sitting on that....