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空中铁匠，音速青年和ZZTop乐队成员成为希腊年轻发明者的客户...







Aerosmith, Sonic Youth and ZZ Top members among customers of young Greek inventors

空中铁匠，音速青年和ZZ Top乐队成员成为希腊年轻发明者的客户



Christos Daifotis (l) and Yiannis Diakoumakos (r) startedout by experimenting with constructing music equipment and are now enjoying growing exports.

克里斯托戴弗提斯（左）和雅尼迪阿库马克斯（右）以尝试组装音乐设备为开始，现在正享受出口的增长。

Anyone who’s ever strummed a guitar has imagined themselves churning out a solo, distorting the sound of the guitar with a pedal.

任何弹奏吉他的人都想象过自己独奏时，用踏板扭曲吉他的声音。



“It’s a fetish for guitarists,” says Christos Daifotis, founder of Crazy Tube Circuits, which designs, manufactures and exports Greek guitar pedals. And even if we aren’t qualified to comment on the quality oftheir sound, others most definitely are, such as Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Nels Cline of Wilco, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, James Valentine of Maroon 5 and more, who have become fans of one of Daifotis’s models. “The [pedal] effects are infinite.”

“这是吉他手的迷恋，”Crazy Tube Circuits的创始人克里斯托戴弗提斯说，他设计、制造和出口希腊吉他踏板。即使我们没有资格去评论他们的声音质量，其他人肯定是有资格的，比如空中铁匠乐队的布拉德-惠特福德、ZZTOP乐队的比利-吉本斯、照办乐队的奈尔斯-克莱因，音速青年乐队的李-拉纳尔多，魔力红乐队的杰姆斯-瓦伦蒂诺以及更多，都已成为戴弗提斯的模型粉丝之一。“[踏板]的影响是无限的。”



It all began in early 2000, when the self-taught guitarist wanted to copy the sounds of Queen’s Brian May, and because good pedals were expensive, he set about trying to make his own.

这一切都开始于2000年初，自学成才的吉他手想模仿女王乐队的布瑞恩-梅的声音，因为好的踏板是昂贵的，所以他尝试自己制作。

“I burned out two or three pedals at the beginning. I was disappointed, but I kept at it and succeeded.”

“我开始烧坏了两只或三只踏板。我很失望，但我一直坚持，最终成功了。”

Daifotis spent many hours on the Internet learning about electronics, circuits and wiring, and the pedals that he once made for friends are now exported to an international market.

戴弗提斯花了很多时间在网上学习电子电路和布线，这些他曾经为朋友们制作的踏板现在已出口到国际市场。



This came about through his participation in European exhibitions and at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, which he has attended every year since 2012.

这是通过他参与的一系列欧洲展览，以及在加利福尼亚阿纳海姆的NAMM展览得来的，该展览自2012年起他每一年都参加。

“The first time, I came back only with money for a month and paid my taxes. The orders followed later,” he says. With his collaborators, he now produces about 160 handmade pedals a month.

“第一次，回来时我只剩下一个月的钱，交了税。随后才有了订单，”他说。与他的合作者一起，现在一个月生产约160只手工踏板。

Yiannis Diakoumakos, founder of Dreadbox, came backempty-handed and stressed out from the same show in 2012. The wooden synthesizer he presented impressed, but didn’t lead to sales.

雅尼迪阿库马克斯，Dreadbox创始人，参加了2012年相同的展览但却空手而归。他展示的木合成器令人印象深刻，但并没有带来销售。



“It was appealing to the eye but not to the pocket,” he says, laughing. As a self-taught musician, he began to assemble his own synthesizer out of necessity.

“它吸引了人的眼睛，但不是口袋，”他笑着说。作为一个自学成才的音乐家，由于必要他开始自己组装合成器。

“There was no luxury market,” he says. Thus he spent long hours on his own learning everything about the construction and assembly of the instrument, which although not common in Greece, is very popular abroad.

“这里没有奢侈品市场，”他说。因此，他花了很长时间自己学习一切关于乐器的构造和组装，这虽然在希腊不常见，但在国外是非常流行的。



Now he designs and manufactures around 100-300 analogue synthesizers a month with his colleagues, and one of them is in the possession of Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore.

现在一个月他和他的同事们设计和制造约100-300只模拟合成器，其中一个由Depeche Mode乐队的马汀-高尔拥有。

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