Locomotive Audio and Louder Than Liftoff collaboration: Fairi-Mu for Silver Bullet mk2
by BradM   13th April 2023

????Are the Bullets readily available nowadays?

Contact Deegan @ LTL via email for more specifics.

Awesome juice!!!!

Looks rad! Does it work in other color hosts like the Mr. Focus etc.?

I think it depends on one's definition of readily. Demand has been consistent and strong, so the wait from pre-order submission to shipping runs about 3-4 months right now. We are currently awaiting a new batch of Main PCB assemblies.

Brad

Great question! This new module is only compatible with the Silver Bullet mk2...for now. The Mojo Module interface we created is stereo, allows for greater current draw, and has additional supply voltages. It also has a gain reduction feed to the "GR" LED on the front panel.

I should mention...if there are designers/brands out there that would like to create a module, feel free to email me to inquire.

Brad

Will you sell silver bullets with the pre-loaded? Thanks!

That’s mega exciting. Locomotive makes incredible gear. Louder Than Liftoff got some smarty cookies over there.

cool, one of most exciting news from this year(from namm show!)

This is awesome. I would love to be able to use this with my chroma though

Yeah that would be cool. Unfortunately, right now that's not possible due to size and power.

But you can always get a Silver Bullet mk2 and place that after your Chroma.

Brad

Yes, the plan is to have multiple Mojo Module options.

Brad

Never a bad investment! I've got a SB MKI, Chroma and 4 of the Mister Focus units. They are all so useful and sound awesome.

I'd like to get a SB MK2 eventually...

Will this not work with SB MK1?

No. The mk1 does not have the expansion module receiver in it. Sorry. But the mk1 is still a great unit!!

A major part of the mk2 upgrade was to allow LTL to create and collaborate with others on Mojo modules that just snap into the motherboard of mk2. Although the A and N sections are identical between the two, there are upgrades to the motherboard, and features to accommodate these modular upgrades. More to come on new Mojo modules in the near future!!

Now I wish I went to NAMM.

Whats the price on this bad boy? This is VERY intriguing.

We will have a price nailed down once we get production quoted. Once Eric is back from NAMM he and I will figure it out.

Brad

Thanks!

INTERESTING

Any media from NAMM actually showing this thing off? I've seen it featured in a few videos, but they haven't actually used it. The majority of these videos don't include any audio demos of most new gear unfortunately, just talking heads going over spec sheets...

I walked Pro Audio at NAMM and did not see it. Though I might have missed it as it would have been in booth with multiple boutique manufactures as these companies are not large. To me it does not matter as I am already stoked about this and can’t wait to get one to put in my Silver Bullet MKII.

I'm also stoked about this, but let's just be clear about the situation. To my knowledge, there's exactly zero youtube videos showing off the SB Mk2 already, and now there's a new expansion for it, which (albeit this is early days) also has no youtube videos showing off what it actually sounds like.

We shouldn't be getting this excited for things that we can't actually hear yet. The fact that people (myself included) pre-ordered an SB Mk2 without ever hearing it is ludicrous to me. It's been on the market for 2 years now... It's a bit ridiculous. No videos from the many SB Mk2 owners out there, and no videos from LTL themselves.

I'm all for minimizing marketing budgets, and making good use of word-of-mouth, but this is literally just buying blind.

Ah the Silver Bullet MKII is basically an expanded as in more features Silver Bullet both of which I have owned and currently still have a MKII there is a thread with lots of testimony and audio samples of the Silver Bullet.
I currently run all my synths through it. I also have set up to use for mix plus duties as well.

I missed hearing it at NAMM with the Locomotive part . Booths were packed with equipment and people sharing booths so I probably walked right by it.

Sorry, but there's no audio examples of the Mk2. Any sound clip links that are miraculously still working in those threads are from the Mk1. I've read every page of the Mk2 thread, and the Mk1 thread. It's just user testimonials. If I trusted user testimonials only I wouldn't have walked out of Avatar 2 (92% audience score on RT lol)

Louder Than Liftoff's Silver Bullet Mk2 website does have a "sound clips" page. Except that they're all SB Mk1 clips. Oh when clicked on they all resolve 404 errors.

The only Video of the Mk2 anywhere on the internet is the 60 second launch teaser. There isn't one real video showing a single sound clip that I can find, and buddy, I've spent maybe 8 hours searching.

The Mk2 has this mythical status, and the only people who have heard it are people who own one. Or people that have a friend who owns one. That to me in the definition of insanity. It's like fawning over a music superstar that's really famous and popular, but you've never heard their music, infact it's impossible for you to hear their music, you just have a picture of the artist, or a .jpeg of a waveform. The only way to hear the album is spend $3000.

boomyak maan , they sound almost 99% the same , that`s why there are no sound examples of SB MK2 .
If you like the MK1 , you will like MK2 even better, because of the addition flavors and EQ .

Why didn't you carve 20 mins off that 8 hours and just befriend someone with a MK2 and ask nicely if you can send them some files to run through it? It's not a mythical piece of gear, it's an evolution of a solid proven workhorse (my MK1 has been in constant use for 6 years) that caught fire during the supply shortages and demand went bonkers.

As for the Fairi-Mu I personally am excited and will finally upgrade as I've used Locomotive compressors before and really liked the result, not really a crazy leap of faith for me, I'll like it or I won't.

Again, while I appreciate the responses, if it's anything other than a link to a publically available sound demo, preferably a video, then it's not the right answer.

Befriending a random on the internet to get them to do unpaid work for me isn't their job, nor mine, it's the company's responsibility to at the very least have some Soundcloud clips. We're talking minimum-effort stuff that could be knocked out over a lunch break. It's been 2 years of literal radio silence.

Furthermore, saying: "it's 99% the same, you'll like it even better" is precisely the kind of response that's unhelpful. Imagine Intel releasing a new $3000 CPU and never showing us a benchmark, and no other owners show benchmarks, and when asked about its performance people say "It's great! you'll love it!" or "find a friend who bought one so they can run some benchmarks for you". Nonsense.

Again, this is nothing personal, not trying to offend anyone. It's business. If I wasn't interested in this product, I wouldn't waste my time here. But someone has to hold Void Corp's feet to the fire.

I have no idea how the hitmakers sound, how they can integrate with A+N cascading, the aspect ratio, the new possibilities with AIR being an independent control with EQ, shoot it'd be nice to hear what different colour modules LTL sells sound like in the famed "C" slot. So trying to sell me on an additional "C" slot module before I even know how the unit itself sounds, it's a big ask, and people shouldn't be expected to buy blindly (deafly?).

Ya except honestly outside of a few people these days soundcloud is all but dead. It’s not the current media format people are using a lot. I ran into this same argument in the 3rd Wave thread because a few guys did not have Instagram ( the “I don’t do social media refrain”, which I think wow you don’t want to be relevant to potential new clients) which is where I post my Demo’s and sounds for people to hear. I don’t have soundcloud it went the way of the Dodo when they started asking everyone to pay after giving it away for free too long. That’s a whole other subject though .
What people are telling you though is if you listen to Silver Bullet examples that are out there already you will get a good read on the MKII . As it really is a just a Silver Bullet with expanded EQ, and a new swappable module . You don’t like the C module you can swap it out. You’re still getting everything that got everyone onboard in the first place.