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The idea and the execution is seriously innovative and impressive. (After troubleshooting a local issue with a failing USB microphone I can verify that the liv

by tpmx 6y ago

The idea and the execution is seriously innovative and impressive. (After troubleshooting a local issue with a failing USB microphone I can verify that the live mode works great. This is the real deal.) Don't miss the photos of the physical setup from the gallery features to the right of the pedal detail pages; excerpt: https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backstage/stompenberg_4-big.png https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta... https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backstage/stompenberg_5-big.png https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta... https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backstage/stompenberg_6-big.png https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta... It's Raspberry Pi-based. Can anyone identify that presumably audio add-on board with lots of connectors? Perhaps it's a one-off inhouse design.

deelowe 6y ago
Looks custom. That's quite a board sitting on top. https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backstage/2.jpg https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...
- tpmx 6y ago
  Yikes.
  - deelowe 6y ago
    Yeah. Makes you wonder why the PI was even needed.
    - tpmx 6y ago
      Well, it's a well-engineered, -documented, and -supported stable platform to handle computing needs for that giant board. Makes perfect sense, I think.
      - deelowe 6y ago
        I know. I was making a bit of a joke. It's a very impressive build. ;-)
    - unmasked_poker 6y ago
      The PI is needed for bridging our PCM3060 based custom sound card(via hardware i2s) with a WebRTC client that connects to the customer. It also handles all the high end internet connectivity and allows us to easily flash the microcontrollers with new software. It could have been done with audiointerfaces instead, but this approach is truly modular and allows us to scale it easily.
RedCapybara 6y ago
It's a inhouse design with a PCM3060 as audio codec.
- tpmx 6y ago
  After doing my research: Thomann is a very large reseller (1700 employees according to wikipedia) in musical equipment. What's the story behind how a reseller got into designing custom raspberry pi add-on boards to demo third party pedals online?
  - nightvisi0n 6y ago
    According to their blog posts it was a contract work by another company: https://feinarbyte.de/projekte/stompenberg/ https://feinarbyte.de/projekte/stompenberg/ (german site)
    - ratww 6y ago
      Their name seems to be a pun on "Feinarbeit", or "fine work". I love how Germany is full of those small, super-specialised tech companies.
  - squarefoot 6y ago
    They also are behind the design of Harley Benton branded instruments, which are made in China although under a decent quality control. I have two HB 5 string basses, the former was the bare minimum I could afford to move to the 5 strings world and see how I adapted to it. That bass wasn't great but it was well set up and tuned, had a decent neck binding, the electronic was really quiet and the sound, although a bit rubber-ish and lacking some sustain, was good enough for playing in a band in which the guitarist played gear that cost 10 times more without anyone noticing. One year later I purchased one of their HBZ-2005, which besides being a piece of beauty sounds fantastic. I paid it about 220€ years ago, before they bumped the price to about 300€ - bummer, I was considering the purchase of a spare one. Apparently it was too good to be that cheap.
    - 6y ago

by tpmx 6y ago

deelowe 6y ago

Looks custom. That's quite a board sitting on top. https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backstage/2.jpg https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...

tpmx 6y ago
Yikes.
- deelowe 6y ago
  Yeah. Makes you wonder why the PI was even needed.
  - tpmx 6y ago
    Well, it's a well-engineered, -documented, and -supported stable platform to handle computing needs for that giant board. Makes perfect sense, I think.
    - deelowe 6y ago
      I know. I was making a bit of a joke. It's a very impressive build. ;-)
  - unmasked_poker 6y ago
    The PI is needed for bridging our PCM3060 based custom sound card(via hardware i2s) with a WebRTC client that connects to the customer. It also handles all the high end internet connectivity and allows us to easily flash the microcontrollers with new software. It could have been done with audiointerfaces instead, but this approach is truly modular and allows us to scale it easily.

RedCapybara 6y ago

It's a inhouse design with a PCM3060 as audio codec.

tpmx 6y ago
After doing my research: Thomann is a very large reseller (1700 employees according to wikipedia) in musical equipment. What's the story behind how a reseller got into designing custom raspberry pi add-on boards to demo third party pedals online?
- nightvisi0n 6y ago
  According to their blog posts it was a contract work by another company: https://feinarbyte.de/projekte/stompenberg/ https://feinarbyte.de/projekte/stompenberg/ (german site)
  - ratww 6y ago
    Their name seems to be a pun on "Feinarbeit", or "fine work". I love how Germany is full of those small, super-specialised tech companies.
- squarefoot 6y ago
  They also are behind the design of Harley Benton branded instruments, which are made in China although under a decent quality control. I have two HB 5 string basses, the former was the bare minimum I could afford to move to the 5 strings world and see how I adapted to it. That bass wasn't great but it was well set up and tuned, had a decent neck binding, the electronic was really quiet and the sound, although a bit rubber-ish and lacking some sustain, was good enough for playing in a band in which the guitarist played gear that cost 10 times more without anyone noticing. One year later I purchased one of their HBZ-2005, which besides being a piece of beauty sounds fantastic. I paid it about 220€ years ago, before they bumped the price to about 300€ - bummer, I was considering the purchase of a spare one. Apparently it was too good to be that cheap.
  - 6y ago