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Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:13 am
by Confuzzled
Was Digitech puchased? Are they no longer making pedals? I see lots of posts from @tomvankramm on IG waxing poetic about his time with digitech/DOD showing off his stellar collection. Does this mean we don't get the re-issue of the space station 2? No dirty robot 2?
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:39 am
by calfzilla
Tom's whole team was let go. No one has much of an idea what that means for the future though, and those that do can't say anything.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 11:08 am
by shikawkee
Tom's last day was June 22nd. Nobody is left. No idea what the company is going to do or in fact move forward at all.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 11:10 am
by D.o.S.
It's what they get for not reissuing the Death Metal TBH.
This is a joke leaves turn I love you.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:29 pm
by misterstomach
my understanding is hazy, and possibly wrong, but from what I gather digitech has been owned by harman for decades but have been able to operate fairly independently. Seems to have been a solid group of nice and creative people. I know a few of them have been active on forums. It seems that a couple of months ago harman decided to take control and they fired the whole team. It's unclear what they're plans are for the brand, but it's really too bad. Digitech/DOD was cool and it seems like some cool people lost jobs they really liked.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:54 pm
by K2000
The recent DOD revival was cool to see. They missed their chance to re-release the Lexicon Vortex though :-P
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:41 am
by cbm
misterstomach wrote:my understanding is hazy, and possibly wrong, but from what I gather digitech has been owned by harman for decades but have been able to operate fairly independently. Seems to have been a solid group of nice and creative people. I know a few of them have been active on forums. It seems that a couple of months ago harman decided to take control and they fired the whole team. It's unclear what they're plans are for the brand, but it's really too bad. Digitech/DOD was cool and it seems like some cool people lost jobs they really liked.
Harman has owned Digitech for a long time, as well as a bunch of other M.I. companies. The trouble started a couple years back, when Samsung bought the Harman Group because they wanted the I.P. and the relationships in the automotive space. Samsung is
such a giant company that a smallish subsidy, like Digitech, is buried in the noise. Digitech lasted longer than I thought they would when I read the Samsung press release about the Harman buy out. It's still sad though. I have a bunch of Digitech / DOD pedals.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:48 am
by Gone Fission
Tom had given a passing mention (IG comments?) that his team had been hired by a major player. Seemed promising. Reading between the lines, I'm thinking someone wanted the digital team, thus grabbing the bunch as a unit. Pitch shifting might have been the point of getting the team, but no reason a Space Station successor couldn't come from these folks . . .
Anyone know who the lucky employer is?
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:22 pm
by tremolo3
Crossing fingers for Roland or Dunlop, because fuck boutique prices.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 2:21 pm
by lost in music
Oh man. Either of those would be pretty goddamn cool.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 2:46 pm
by alexsga
a boss ringmod at last!
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:02 pm
by jrfox92
From what I understand, they shut down Utah, period.
I've read about certain Harman employees even moving to Texas to keep their jobs.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:23 pm
by Confuzzled
Wow. That is so fucked. I do hope they all land on their feet and continue as a team somewhere else.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:39 pm
by Sonaboy
jrfox92 wrote:From what I understand, they shut down Utah, period.
If I could vote for that, I would.
Re: Did our favorite Digitech/DOD rep leave the company?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:40 pm
by nogodsnobedtimes
tremolo3 wrote:Crossing fingers for Roland or Dunlop, because fuck boutique prices.
I've been incredibly happy with every MXR pedal I've owned, would be cool to see some Kramm-team MXR pedals down the road.