#DRONE STATION 2015 TRIAL#

Arrest and trial Īfter the drone was eventually found, Yamamoto turned himself in to the police on April 24 at the Obama police station and was arrested. The drone was found by accident on April 22 by an official who was taking new employees on a tour of the building. On April 18 he showed a picture of himself preparing a second drone. He had planned to land it in front of the Prime Minister's office, but he lost control of it and it landed on the roof of the Prime Minister's office, which functions as a helipad.Īfter losing control of the drone Yamamoto returned to Fukui and posted on his blog about how there were no reports about his drone. On April 9 at 3:30am he flew the drone from a parking lot located near the Prime Minister's office. On the following day he wished to fly his drone but the weather was poor, so he delayed it until the next day. The drones are sold only in white, but Yamamoto had painted his black, had painted over LEDs on it in black, and placed a radiation symbol sticker on it. On ApYamamoto left his home and travelled to Tokyo with his DJI Phantom 2 drone. In March 2015 he again visited Fukushima prefecture to gather contaminated sand. On December 24, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's new cabinet was launched, he had intended to do his flight to the PM's office from a nearby park, but did not do so as it was too stressful. Yamamoto considered various methods to draw attention to his cause, and considered landing a drone with the Fukushima sand at a US diplomatic housing facility. In October 2014 he went to Fukushima to gather contaminated sand. In October 2014 he used a drone to observe the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture, which was then due to be restarted. He referred to himself in one blog post as 'a lone wolf' and in another post said “I will not hesitate to commit a terror act to stop restart (of nuclear reactors)”. In July 2014 Yamamoto started a blog, which he called 'Santa Kantei' (Santa at the Prime Minister's office). Fukui prefecture is home to 13 of Japan's 48 operational nuclear reactors, and in 2014 the reactivation of Japan's nuclear reactors, idled after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a serious topic of debate. The cats over at Center Street Electronics are making incredible gear, go check them out NOW.Yasuo Yamamoto was an unemployed 40-year-old man from Fukui prefecture and former Japan Air Self-Defense Force enlistee, residing in Obama, Fukui. 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.

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