Couple of questions/observations:
- When did Ed Sheeran get a gig with SoS?
- It's cool that they made it out of Kickstarter and had a presence at NAMM
- Where on the spectrum of small manufacturers are they gonna fall in terms of product availability and customer support?
- How significant is movement in the Y-Axis when shooting IRs? I would think being able to move up/down would be more important than rotation. I'm sure there's a way to give all three axis without being too bulky so as to distort the cab's performance
- They should have used a beefier mic stand or a smaller mic, the combination they used for the single axis model shook a lot when it moved.
Edit: Also, I question the guy's claim that it would take thousands of $$$ to hack something together that would be comparable or better.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/1...ail&utm_term=0_fa5287abaf-2ca58c52dd-62650325 Add one of these grippers for the microphone or roll your own mount
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13174. Might need to add a stepper motor and driver to rotate the gripper. Add a joystick $20
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9136. Add a $35 Arduino and some programming skills, I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to describe a plane for the arm to travel in and then to adjust the rotation of the microphone so it is perpendicular to the cab, and then make it all controllable by the joystick. ~$400 worth of parts. $200 worth of programming and polishing isn't a bad deal if the X1-R had more degrees of movement, but doesn't feel like a winner to me as is. I wish it could move in the Y-Axis.
