A frequently updated log of electronic, music, furniture & acoustics projects

Keyboard Case for Taja & Ben
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Keyboard Case for Taja & Ben

Taja & Ben of L’Rain requested a custom keyboard stand to house both a synthesizer and pedals and cabling on the lower level.

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Custom Knobs by Chris Prinz
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Custom Knobs by Chris Prinz

Several years ago, artist Chris Prinz and I designed front panel and knobs (based on his experiments with face milling round rod on a Bridgeport milling machine) for the two pairs of Neve style preamp cards I had built.

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Passive Ribbon Controller
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Passive Ribbon Controller

Ben Katz requested a passive ribbon controller for use with his Prophet 6 synthesizer. I have been interested in Velostat for some time and figured it would an interesting challenge.

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Dual AB Box
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Dual AB Box

The artist Jachary requested a pedal to allow him to run both a guitar and a bass through the same pedal board, but send the bass to a bass amp, and a guitar to a guitar amp.

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Stereo Synth DI
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Stereo Synth DI

I needed a clean way to track the extremely high stereo outputs of the vintage synths in the studio like the Juno 60. I came into a few used Jensen JT-DB transformers that are perfect step down transformers for the job.

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Ludwig Bearing Recut
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Ludwig Bearing Recut

Recutting of the studio’s main drum kit’s high tom, whose bearings were poorly cut at the factory back in 1964.

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Neumann KM86s
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Neumann KM86s

A look inside my favorite pair of microphones in the studio - maintenance and matching info.

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Studio Build
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Studio Build

An ongoing documentation/photo dump of acoustical treatments and improvements to my personal production space in Brooklyn that has been dubbed “The Woodshop”.

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