back in the day when the evolver was the only product Dave Smith had,steevio wrote:i think they look the same cos the knobs are the same thats all.
you know i feel bad about giving bad press to a synth company, and i dont like putting those negative energies out into the ether, but i genuinely felt f**cked over when i bought that synth, they must have known about the problem and were still selling those encoder models...
if they'd have offered to give me the new board for free they would have made good as far as i'm concerned, and they wouldnt be getting this sh!t, and i'm far from the only one as is obvious by the other guys on this forum who bought them.
putting profit before your customers satisfaction using cheap components probably using cheap labour is typical capatalist BS, and one of the main reasons why i buy everything from small dedicated companies who mostly hand build their gear on their own premises now.
and everyone in synth land was raving about Dave Smith as a company,
I heard all but good stories.
I wrote an email (maybe 5 years ago or more ?) asking where I could get one in Belgium, and Dave replied back to me in no time, answering all my questions.
Friends I know bought an evolver used on ebay, and asked for replacement knobs because a few knobs were broken,
and Dave sent them free knobs. They didn't even have to pay shipping costs !
Free knobs, for a synth they bought used !
I had never seen that kind of service before, to be honest.
I guess a lot has changed since then ?