Sunday, March 18, 2012

2012 Product Focus

2012 is off to a good start. Sales of our Pedal Jeanie products are slowly picking up steam and we are we are building a couple custom G1 amps as well. We have had a handful of Pedal Jeanie customers trying to power AC only pedals off our boards and sadly we have to tell them it is a DC power supply at this time.

The good news is we have a new product fresh off the prototype bench that will make our customers with AC pedals very happy. As a matter of fact it may make anyone using a DC Brick, Voodoo Lab Pedal Power, or any user of a DC power supply a happy camper. This new product has been designed to eliminate the need for those big clunky AC power supplies from your pedalboard. Our product called "The Chopper" will convert DC power to AC power much like an inverter, but it is specifically designed to power 9v, 12v, 18v, and 24v AC pedals. With this product we can power AC and DC pedals off of our DC power supply. It will have the same barrel tip connection as the industry standard, and will work with all the standard cable adapters in the market. It will also ground the signal to eliminate common noise problems that occur when mixing AC and DC pedals. The prototype is up and running and is currently being field tested. We hope to start a small production run this summer and hope to ship before the holiday season. Due to the potential demand for this product we are going to start pre-selling them about 3 months before the first production run is complete. This will enable us to build the correct amount of units to meet the demand. We will post a pre-order page on our website as soon as the test phase is complete.

We have been getting a lot of calls from musicians who already have a pedalboard but would like our power supply. We have been looking at ways to make a smaller form factor to accomodate existing pedalboard users, but it is a bot of a catch 22. We can go smaller by using lithium power to power our DC supply, but that will increase the cost of our product. We are not sure people will pay more than the current cost of our Pedal Jeanie products for a slimline powersupply. If we keep it relatively the same size it is an easy product that will be slightly less than our pedalboards, but it would have to sit off to the side of current pedalboard configurations as it would take up too much space to add it to an existing board. We are still batting around idea's on how to design a powersupply only version of our pedalboard. We are open to ideas and would love to hear from you if you have some thoughts on this. Please email info@grid1.com with your thoughts.

We have slowed our progress on the battery powered bass amp due to the increased interest in our battery powered pedalboards. That said, we are beginning to test a few bass amp configurations and are working closely with a number of seasoned bass players to be sure it is voiced correctly, and has all the desired features to make them happy.

That is it for now. Thank you for following our blogs. We will send another update as we get ready to launch the DC to AC converter.

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