May 9/08 - The Memory Lane 2 has begun shipping! The first batch of MLN-2 pedals are on the way to dealers and should be arriving over the next week. The first pedals have been shipped to- Action Music (Arlington, VA), Axe and You Shall Receive (Brantford, ON, Canada), Musictoyz.com (Falmouth, ME), PedalsPlus (Canfield, OH) and TrueTone Music (Santa Monica, CA)

May 2/08 - Memory Lane featured in the M. Night Shyamalan film The Happening trailer (Quicktime required). We received an email from Benjamin Hazlett, a Hollywood session player, letting us know that not only did he use the Memory Lane for that session, but that it was also used on sessions for the upcoming Wolverine and Batman- Dark Knight films.

 

April 24/08 - Memory Lane 2 PCBs ... click the pic for more.

April 18/08 - Memory Lane 2 build continues...not too much longer. Here's a teaser...

April 15/08 - After careful consideration and feedback from players we've decided to make some revisions to the Diamond Vibrato pedal. We decided it was too big, too expensive and too compex. As a result, we're scaling back the design to a lean, mean analog vibrato machine. There will still be some very cool features but it will be smaller, easier to use and less expensive. Stay tuned for more!

April 7/08 - Congratulations to Canadian band Wintersleep on their Juno win for Best New Artist 2008. Way to go guys!! Guitarist Tim D'Eon uses the Diamond Memory Lane and J-Drive pedals live and in the studio. Visit their website at www.wintersleep.com

March 31/08 - New features added to Memory Lane 2- in one of those "what if we did this?" moments, we've added a couple of features to the Memory Lane 2 that really add to the useability. First, we've added a 'slap' mode to Delay 1 (activated via mini toggle) so that at any delay time setting there is a single repeat regardless of the Feedback setting. This allows you to have a single repeat on Delay 1 while having any number of repeats (along with a different delay time) on Delay 2. Very cool!

The other change is to the Feedback circuit itself- the normal mode of the Memory Lane 2 is now a little less sensitive to self oscillation than the original Memory Lane. It will still self oscillate, just not quite as easily. However, we know that some players loved the crazy self oscillation sounds that are available so we've incorporated an internal selector switch that activates "spaceship mode" for all those jet fueled, screaming feedback sounds that analog delay is capable of.

March 10/08 - We get fantastic emails from customers around the world on a regular basis. Today an email arrived from a Memory Lane user who scores the NBC television show "Chuck". Timothy J. tells us that the Memory Lane is an integral part of his guitar sounds when he's scoring music for the show. Keep an ear out for the delay tones next time it's on!

We're continuing to 'tweak' the new Diamond Vibrato pedal circuit- look for some new sound clips posted on the site soon.

Rick McPhail of the popular German band Tocotronic has started using the Diamond Compressor describing it as "the peak of all compressors"- nice play on words Rick! Check out their video Mein Ruin on YouTube or their website.

Cool news! Andy Summers of The Police has recently acquired a Halo Chorus and a Memory Lane pedal from Truetone Music in Santa Monica (thanks guys!) and is currently putting them through their paces. We're big fans so this is very exciting!

We've been asked a lot about upgrading the original Memory Lane pedals to Memory Lane 2 specification. Unfortunately this isn't possible as the internal layout is different between the two pedals- if you look inside the original you'll see that a large section of the PCB is located where the Delay1/Delay2 footswitch is on the Memory Lane 2. It isn't physically possible to mod the original to the new version.

Our NAMM Gallery is now posted with a few pictures of friends, dealers and sights from Winter NAMM.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at the NAMM show. The response to the new pedals has been amazing! Information on the Memory Lane 2 is now posted on the site and we'll have updated product pages for the new Vibrato and Phase pedals soon.

The Boost-EQ is now shipping, more details and the first sound bite here. Our Summer NAMM contest winner for the Boost-EQ is Antonio at Eletrotype - congratulations! The Phase will be shipping within a few days as well.

Check out our first Vibrato sound samples here! Lots more samples to come soon...

Check out new Halo Chorus samples sent to us by guitarist Jamie Oakes here.

Check out new Memory Lane / ST-MIX samples here. Update - we've added some J-Drive MK3 / ST-MIX out to two amp sound samples as well on the ST-MIX page.

Our first issue of the Diamond Pedals newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF here. We'll be putting an issue together every few months with info on new products, player spotlights, and tech tips - please let us know any feedback and suggestions you have!