#DRONE STATION 2015 TRIAL#
"If we had some pictures, we could decide on who may be operating the machines." Fornier suggests that the flyovers that have been noted have three possible explanations: innocent pranksters, anti-nuclear protestors, or trial runs by terrorists. That's very troubling," says Jean-Luc Fornier, whose company designs and operates drones for use in the media industry. Curiously, no pictures of drone sightings near power stations have surfaced, a fact that causes concern amongst experts. The last widely-reported sighting was on 3 January, when two aircraft were seen flying over a nuclear facility in Nogent-sur-Seine, in northern-central France.Īctivists maintain that a government blackout has blocked information on any further sightings. Last year, unmanned drones were spotted flying over at least 13 nuclear power stations in France. But potential terrorists wouldn't need to trigger an earthquake, just be able to accurately pilot a pair of readily-available commercial drones carrying small payloads of explosive. It's the same cause behind the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan after it was hit by a tsunami in March 2011. Without power to cool the radioactive fuel, Large estimates it would take approximately 30 seconds before the fuel begins to melt, leading to potential leakages of nuclear waste. Then the generators are easily taken out by an unmanned drone with a relatively small payload. First, one drone hits the distribution grid serving the plant, depriving the facility of off-site power, making it dependent on its diesel generators to cool the reactor, which generates up to 1,000 megawatts of power – enough to light up half of Paris. With devastating simplicity, John Large explains how drones could be used to coordinate a terror attack on a nuclear power station. Drones can be used to tickle the plant into instability." The plant has enough energy to destroy itself. The cats over at Center Street Electronics are making incredible gear, go check them out NOW."You don't need massive amounts of force to allow a nuclear plant to go into instability.
That’s just a small nitpick, though – the Drone Station is a beast, and an awesome 2-In-1. Not that you can’t tell by the sound, it would just be nice to be able to switch between one or the other before turning the pedal on, depending on what tune you were currently playing on stage. My only wish about this pedal is that there was an LED or two on the left side, so you could easily tell which gain channel was currently activated. Plus, you mix in that Voltage decimator and this thing takes off into video game fuzz territory with a quickness. Dialing these 2 stages in independently allows you to really decide what sounds from this pedal are important in your signal path, and how you can best utilize them in a functional and sonically pleasurable way. I dig the dual Gain stages as well, as you can go from a nice overdrive tone to a massive fuzz wall in a half second. Mix these with the 2 separate Gain stage controls, and you’re in for a wild ride. When fully cranked, this Voltage knob makes the pedal sound normal, but start dialing it back, and you get all sorts of breakup and glitch-y sounds emanating from your amp. There’s a cool knob in the middle that controls the Voltage that’s being supplied to the pedal, which really makes the Drone Station fun to mess around with. The Volume and Tone controls are applied to whichever channel you happen to be in, which makes things a little less complicated, in my book.
This little black beauty is a 2-stage gain pedal that can do a fairly broad range of tones, going from a pretty killer overdrive to a ballsy fuzz, basically with the click of a footswitch. You might have seen our review recently on the God Hates Fuzz pedal of theirs, and today we’ve got a completely different animal to try and tame: the Drone Station Fuzz.
If you are a big fan of fuzz pedals, and you haven’t checked out Center Street Electronics yet, you’re missing out.