| 00:00 - 00:05 | Nicholas Boscorelli writes a book called the Stompbox Cookbook |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | There's this great project in there called the |
| 00:07 - 00:10 | Echo-Matic. Easy to build. |
| 00:11 - 00:16 | So I start a company selling them, just buying up every decent Marantz tape deck I can find. |
| 00:17 - 00:21 | Just wiped out the second hand market! |
| 00:21 - 00:24 | You used to be able to find them |
| 00:29 - 00:31 | for $75-100! |
| 00:31 - 00:34 | Now, if you're lucky, you'll pay $200-250! |
| 00:38 - 00:40 | $250! |
| 00:41 - 00:47 | Maybe $100-150 for one that was used by drunk cops for some backwoods "sting operations" |
| 00:47 - 00:50 | The door will fly off the first time you hit "eject" |
| 00:50 - 00:56 | If it has a door at all! |
| 00:58 - 00:59 | $150! |
| 00:59 - 01:01 | It probably won't even work! |
| 01:04 - 01:06 | Junk is all that's left! |
| 01:06 - 01:08 | Crap! |
| 01:13 - 01:14 | I bought them all! |
| 01:14 - 01:16 | People thought I was a genious! |
| 01:16 - 01:20 | Thank you Nicholas! |
| 01:21 - 01:27 | Some stickers, a bit of soldering, the rest is profit! |
| 01:35 - 01:36 | Easy money! |
| 01:36 - 01:39 | $250 extra for a foot controller! |
| 01:41 - 01:44 | After a while, things start to slow down. |
| 01:44 - 01:47 | The eurorack market is booming. |
| 01:47 - 01:49 | So I announce the Space Case TE-2 |
| 01:50 - 01:53 | A eurorack module! |
| 01:54 - 01:56 | Eurorack! |
| 01:56 - 01:58 | I'll cram a marantz behind a 3U panel! |
| 01:58 - 02:02 | An eight-step sequencer? Why not? |
| 02:05 - 02:07 | VCFs? |
| 02:10 - 02:11 | Sure! |
| 02:11 - 02:13 | VC everything! |
| 02:15 - 02:17 | I don't even have a working prototype! |
| 02:17 - 02:20 | I just rendered some nice looking panel graphics and started selling them! |
| 02:21 - 02:28 | I have no idea how to make that thing in the picture work. I just keep adding requested features! |
| 02:29 - 02:30 | You're selling them? |
| 02:30 - 02:32 | They're paying me to learn electronics! |
| 02:36 - 02:39 | Two and a half years some of them have waited. |
| 02:40 - 02:42 | Once and a while I make a demo of some tape echo. |
| 02:50 - 02:55 | No pictures. Just a recording of a tape echo I bought off Reverb with their money. |
| 02:56 - 02:58 | That convinces them? |
| 02:58 - 03:04 | Every time. That and the "weekly update" where I type 8 paragraphs about having buttons made. |
| 03:04 - 03:09 | Sometimes people catch on, but my customers defend me and dismiss legitimate complaints as trolling. |
| 03:09 - 03:11 | I record another audio sample, it's all good. |
| 03:16 - 03:20 | They love being lied to! |
| 03:23 - 03:26 | I made a couple of prototype cases. |
| 03:31 - 03:36 | People like them, so I'm going to start selling them since, unlike the TE-2, they actually exist! |
