I just updated the website. Thanks for the reminder. There are currently about 130 units on backorder.
Monthly production will get better as Hutch's later mods get worked into production and everyone gets used to building it and testing it. It is smoothing out better now. I think there are about 20 units built just waiting for QC with the next run of about 30 units in kitting right now. New products always start off with smaller production runs so that kinks and bugs get eradicated with each rev and we don't get stuck with too many units that "could have been slightly better." This is normal, especially for a complicated product such as this one.
We hope to get about 10 to 15 units out before we close for Christmas holidays on December 20th. We could get out more but Humberto is going on vacation a week early and the other QC boyz will be booked out preparing gear for CES and NAMM trade shows which smack us back-to-back after we get back on January 6, 2003. Plus we have a full board of orders of all the other 64 products we build that we need to try to fill before holidays.
Juggling resources... starting up is the hardest part.
e-cue: Sorry there's no separate micpre output, but if you hit bypass then you ain't limiting. So the SLAM! can work as a stand-alone 2-channel micpre, line amp, or DI.
The ELOP and FET limiters work together but separately. You can mix in as little or as much of each their effects together as you wish: some of both, none of that one, all of the other one, whatever. They are driven from different points and it is kind of interesting what Hutch did with this approach.
But no, you cannot run in and out the ELOP and then in and out the FET limiter unless you ran in one channel, only used the ELOP, then ran into the other channel and only used the FET. The way this thing is set up, it wouldn't make much sense doing that.
Both the ELOP and FET limiters (times two for stereo) have separate side chain inserts and linking jacks on the rear panel TT patchbay which is handy.
If you have a lot of time on your hands, you can
read Hutch's 34 page SLAM! Owner's Manual. It is a rather educational read in general.