Designing Legendary Gear with Paul Wolff
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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DIY Recording Equipment Podcast
Weekly discussions of how to build your own gear for the recording studio.
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16 episodesAnalog Synth DIY with Abby Echiverri
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,...
Chassis Design with Jon Erickson
We audio nerds love to talk about particular parts and circuitry—transformers, op-amps, discrete vs integrated, passive vs active, etc—but w...
"Explain Like I'm 5": Why Is Pro Audio Gear So Expensive?
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...
"Explain Like I'm 5": Filters
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,...
“Explain Like I’m 5″: Audio Levels
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...
Talking Tubes with DW Fearn
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...
"Explain Like I'm 5": Impedance
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...
"Explain Like I'm 5": Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connections
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...
Mic Preamps and Surface-Mount Parts with Expat Audio
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...
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Audio Electronics..." Part 2
Our resident electronics expert, Duncan Gray, is back to answer your audio electronics questions! Duncan and I recorded two hours of answers...
Is Open Source the Way Forward for DIY Audio?
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...
Being a DIYer, Studio Owner, and Engineer with Marc Alan Goodman of Strange Weather Brooklyn
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...
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Audio Electronics" Answers Podcast! (pt. 1)
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...
What Makes API Gear Sound So Good? With Jeff Steiger of CAPI
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...
DIY Condenser Microphones with Scott Helmke
Today, I discuss the ins and outs of making your own condenser microphones with Scott Helmke, creator of the popular Alice Microphone projec...