Pete Cornish - NG-2

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WOW .. There are a few here that are just all about some pete cornish .. little too buddy , buddy are we? Chill out !!
I think he makes great stuff and great sounding stuff. IMO NO PEDAL is worth $1000 to $3000 new ...PERIOD.. I dont Give a shit WHO makes it . and regardless of electronic knowledge. it is a PEDAL... So no offense to Mr. Cornish or anyone who buys the stuff..
Someone mentioned this being no different than a Painting or a Bentley ... Yes it is alot different the TES repeats a note played ..A Bentley is an amazing Car.. and a painting, well if its a Davinci , your gonna pay out the ass cuz HE'S FUCKING DEAD!!!! Pete Cornish is NOT , and his pedals are obtainable NEW.. we are not talking about a rare, Unobtainable , no more made , wont see them again kind of obeject . It is a DELAY( delay ) that you can get on the list for .. I in no way want to bash Cornish.. I am intrigued by his work and his approach to a design . To say no one here respects that is ubsurd. on the most part we do .. No one has said he doesnt know what he is doing .. Obviously he does. or the names wouldnt buy it..
But there is a much longer list of Famous artists that use , and obviously prefer Boss , Ibanez, MXR, and Dunlop pedals. so the list doesnt mean shit other than people with Money like to spend Money.
PETE DOES GREAT WORK .. but his prices show he is a little full of himself and some people only fuel that fire.. and I would almost bet all those names on his list probably said "Sure you can build me a pedal board with all my favorite pedals" (think about that one ) .. I mean really, What would you do if David gilmour asked you to assemble a very nice pedal board utilizing HIS stuff to create HIS tone .. Do you really think he would say "Sure , just replace all the pedals i have been using for 30 years with your stuff, and I will just work around that." Ha what the hell ever man.... it is reboxed classic shit.. for a measly $15,000. No Player exclusively uses one manufacturers pedals , at least none I have ever seen.. so to believe that is All cornish stuff in there, I think is ridiculous.. But that is just an Opinion.. :thumbsup

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I just wanted to share some porn... :cry:
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can you degoop that shit off already?

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Heyy, man, easy, Its not mine, I've said twice, the pics were given to me by the owner.

I don't have the money to spend on a Zvex, less on a Cornish pedal.
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Just out of interest how many people offering an opinion have actually worked with any PC products ?

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I for one have not. Im a player not an electronic industry guy so there is no way in hell i'd ever be able to afford the pedal in order to give an first hand experience/emperical account of his pedals. when i win the lottery i'll buy all of them and we'll degoop and trace them. :D

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more power to PC for what he does...

my assumption: cornish is primarily NOT an effects builder. i can well understand that he would rather avoid a low-volume, low-returns business as far as he can to concentrate on the larger jobs that he gets. hence, he prices his stuff at ridiculous amounts to make it really worth his while to spend that much time on a stompbox than on one of his larger projects or consulting ventures.

if he's getting what he asks from somebody, i'm not going to be one to judge him. i will probably never play a cornish pedal, but i would safely assume that the man knows a thing or two about roadworthiness when it comes to constructing equipment. also, i would think that his pedals do what they say they do - customer satisfaction is rather important at those prices.

i think it's some sort of trend on this forum to shit on whatever can possibly be shit on.
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flood wrote: i think it's some sort of trend on this forum to shit on whatever can possibly be shit on.
Depending on how one crouches, that's most things.

I'll see if I can find the article on Pete Cornish from the old guitar player mag and post the scan here. It makes for interesting reading, love him or hate him.

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I think Photoshop needs a "Degoop" function! :o


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Thanks for the articles though I've seen most of the before.

All wiring is fully shielded and in addition the board is coated with special screening paint
So it's just for screening !! And not for our curious eyes I suppose.

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But, It has to be two coats of paint, one which isn't conductiv, and the screening one. Otherwise you'd have shorts all over the place.
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I think that's talking about the black exterior paint on the enclosure, not the circuit boards.
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Haha, but it says 'the board'.
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"The active circuitry is potted in semi-flexible resin as vital protection: a) against environmental conditions which can cause unwanted changes to the electronic circuitry and b) to eliminate the possibility of microphonic feedback that can occur when high gain devices are used in close proximity to amplifiers at full volume. Glass fibre PCBs are prone to resonant vibrations and our use of dense potting material increases the mass of the circuit board to place any possible resonances outside the audio frequency spectrum." :roll:

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SPeter wrote:"The active circuitry is potted in semi-flexible resin as vital protection: a) against environmental conditions which can cause unwanted changes to the electronic circuitry and b) to eliminate the possibility of microphonic feedback that can occur when high gain devices are used in close proximity to amplifiers at full volume. Glass fibre PCBs are prone to resonant vibrations and our use of dense potting material increases the mass of the circuit board to place any possible resonances outside the audio frequency spectrum." :roll:
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Here is the largest information I was able to found about Pete Cornish products:
http://www.petecornish.co.uk/

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ech0es wrote:Could you build all of this stuff ? During 36years ? Not only the pedals ! a monkey can build a top quality pedal if we teach him how to do
Pete Cornish build not only pedals: Power Distribution System , Amp Mains Power Distribution Unit , 24 Channel Active D.I. , Mains Power Stabilizer ,12 KVA Isolation Trans. , 50 Amp Auto Voltage Stabilizer etc etc...!
Power distribution systems, power stablilzer panels and other things of that ilk are nothing out of the ordinary. It may be unusual for someone associated with effects manufacture to get involved in that sort of engineering, but this type of panel is manufactured every week by thousands of engineering or panel building companies across the planet. I worked for Siemens in the UK and we used to sell this type of control equipment by the lorry-load, so as far as that side of the business is concerned, Pete certainly isn't doing anything remarkable or unusual.

It seems that he has become almost a one-stop-shop for a selection of pro touring musicians, which I'm sure makes things less complicated for them if they can get one person with industry experience to take on a whole project.
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