http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deviever/console-ii-cartridge-based-multi-fx-guitar-pedal/posts/683655
Looks like the Console project, for now, is dead. Kickstarter got her the cash she wanted but she's got to the bottom of the money before getting the pedal on the market, so that sucks.
Impressive honesty compared with some Kickstarter success-then-failure stories but presumably she's used some of the investment for food, rent, whatever and not enough on building pedal stuff.
Devi Ever the brad will apparently continue with someone else building the pedals and the Console project is all open-source so anyone can have at it if they want. I'm still not convinced there was ever big enough a market for it tbh, but it's a shame to see it fail.
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Edit: since this was originally posted I've seen another one, which if anything was even worse.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
On the note of her build quality I've seen varying degrees of quality on the ones I've owned, one was poor, the other was quite good. Both worked, but I didn't like the way the circuits were floating loose and wrapped in electrical tape... as I said, both worked well during the abusive period one had with me and the other is still enduring...
Regardless of the frank apology something like this takes what should be a good and beneficial concept like Kickstarter and gives it a swift kick in bollocks. She originally asked for 20000, got twice that and took the rest to live on. People invested in a concept not her personal life. If she had 'only' got the 20 grand she had asked for then what would she have done? Run off with the cash or got off her arse?
I'm just counting the days until she's looking for investment in her new 8 bit game concepts. :!!
She has asked for people to support her with a "living wage" of some 2,600 $US per month -- at various times it has been while she develops one of a few games (which game she resolves to focus on developing changes approximately monthly)
However, now she asks for people to support her in crowdfunding style so she can live a 'creative lifestyle'
That didn't catch on either...
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I didn't think she crowd funded anymore (I'm surprised anyone would donate to her!) but I did hear her podcast where she says she does webcam sex to maintain a living wage.
Also I won't fund 8 bit games. My phone has a Sega megadrive emulator which gives me access to every 16 bit megadrive game ever. Oh, and the game boy colour emulator.
And game boy advance, but being 32 bit that's a bit more advanced.
Wouldn't we all like a creative lifestyle??? Shame about the reputation and permanent mouthing off, the Devi designs brought something different to the world of Fuzzes.
The effects on the Korg were actually quite nice. Two or three of the very unusual units (dist wah, waveshaper, Octave V) are still highly sought-after (though some of that may just be for rarity's sake)
The onboard Electra cartridges were relatively primitive, electronically speaking, even for the time - but they did offer a clean solution for some simple foundational effects (boosters for example) as long as one didn't expect too too much