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A more skeptical man than I might deliberate what percentage of the development of this product was the reverse engineering of the software and hardware of similar products made by US and Japanese companies.
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Many of them were designed by the same roving band of designers, incorporating a bit of the individual companies' technology (fer instance if they have their own audio or camera technology).
It's entirely possible that the same happens with guitar DSP stuff. Line6 and Boss have their own developers I'd bet, but some of the smaller companies may use roving freelancers.
The earlier days of laptops, when I was heavily involved were also very incestiest. 2 large companies Quanta and and Compal along with Twinhead and a few others were basically making all the Dell's, HP's and other big brands. The HP Omnibook 2100 was basically the same laptop as the Dell Inspiron 3200 for example.
The Icepower audio modules, which are a combined SMPS and class D power amp PCB are used in loads of audio products from B&O sub woofers to hi fi audio amps and as I've mentioned loads of times Fender Tonemaster amps.
I suppose it allows designers to bring out a product quickly due to the lack of time and money needed for R&D .. plus all the certification is done. It does mean though that going forward there will be less innovation in the audio world.
One company that is still designing all it's own products is Blackstar. When they brought out the Amped module I thought it was another generic amp module with some BS DSP in a box but then coincidently I was mixing a U2 tribute a few weeks later and the guitarist was BS's head of design. He told me they designed it, and the St James amp completely in house which is nice to hear in these days of other manufacturers using generic building blocks.
Extron had their own design. About a quarter of the capacitors, much higher efficiency, lower noise, faster startup ftom standby.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.