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Paul Wolff has designed more legendary pieces of gear than most of us have used. In his years with API alone, Paul designed the 550B EQ, 512...
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Weekly discussions of how to build your own gear for the recording studio.

Paul Wolff has designed more legendary pieces of gear than most of us have used. In his years with API alone, Paul designed the 550B EQ, 512...

I've often fantasized about building a huge analog synth. But besides the obstacles of cost and not having a spare room in my house for it,...

We audio nerds love to talk about particular parts and circuitry—transformers, op-amps, discrete vs integrated, passive vs active, etc—but w...

Sticker shock is a common malady in the recording world. It takes a lot of money to outfit and maintain a studio. But why? What are the fact...

How do filters work? As audio engineers, we use filters every day. We're all intimately familiar with high-pass, low-pass, band-pass, shelf,...

What's the difference between "pro" and "consumer" line levels? Is it ok to plug an instrument into a line level input? What's the differenc...

DW Fearn knows tubes. Since he rediscovered the sound of tubes in 1991, DW (Doug) has crafted a legendary line of all-tube, all-red-front-pa...

When I sent out the newsletter announcing the last "Explain Like I'm 5 Podcast," I asked which audio topics you wanted to hear explained to...

This podcast marks the first of a new series in which I attempt to explain complex audio subjects so that a 5-year-old could understand them...

In this month's DIY podcast, I talk to Dafydd Roche of Expat Audio about their new Eden Mic Preamp. Download the mp3 or listen on iTunes . S...

Our resident electronics expert, Duncan Gray, is back to answer your audio electronics questions! Duncan and I recorded two hours of answers...

DIY audio folks like to share--that's what makes us a community. My kits and the DIY Project Directory are possible because others have shar...

One thing I often wondered when I first got into DIY was whether any "real" producers and engineers built their own gear. So I was thrilled...

Last week, I put out the call for you to ask "Everything you always wanted to know about audio electronics, but were afraid to ask." The res...

Jeff Steiger of CAPI and I get nerdy about various vintage audio and DIY topics, including: Why create a company dedicated to vintage API ge...

Today, I discuss the ins and outs of making your own condenser microphones with Scott Helmke, creator of the popular Alice Microphone projec...