In the last year, or at least most of 2008, we've had problems here at the studio in that we've lost one partner / co-owner, another is one who tends to travel (which has really helped our Loop-O-Mat business by sending back native recordings from Asian countries, but it's left us with only one person, who was already responsible for all the accounting and such to also do the work.
Sadly, he's not been well, and is under diagnosis for a weird blood disease. As such, we've been sitting on some simple cleaning and adjustments for two NM- Roland RE-201 tape echoes and two Electra EP 350 echoes.
We've some good news in that we've got a (hopefully) mint NOS Roland RE-301 / RE-501 / SRE-555 replacement motor coming in, although it's not by Samyana / Pioneer which makes us suspicious of the manufacture, as well as possibly another Electra EP 350, which we'll discuss in a later posting. The problem is that the studio has one fairly sick (and potential fatally ill) person manning it at this time. Not great news, but at least an update.