In the video below, guest vlogger Matthew Jenkins walks us through his build of a vintage-style Neumann U87 clone. What some viewers may find surprising is that at no point during the video does Matthew perform any black magic or mortgage his home. As you’ll see, a soldering iron, some … read more
In this month’s DIY podcast, I talk to Dafydd Roche of Expat Audio about their new Eden Mic Preamp. Stream below or download the mp3 Subscribe to the DIYRE podcast Dafydd and I get into some good stuff about mic preamp and general audio design, including: The difference between surface … read more
Here’s a fun little noise-maker you can build for under $5 in under 5 minutes: a “Circuit Sniffer.” Just as microphones pick up vibrations in the air and turn them into an alternating electrical current, this little device picks up the magnetic fields emitted by electronic devices. You can get … read more
While Link and I continue to develop the Colour project, I’ve been working on a compact headphone amplifier kit. After prototyping various circuits, I’ve settled on one that packs an uncommon amount of power and audio performance into a small, cost-efficient package. In the video above I discuss the various … read more
Our resident electronics expert, Duncan Gray, is back to answer your audio electronics questions! Duncan and I recorded two hours of answers last week to the questions you asked in the original “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Audio Electronics…” post. So to spare you the tedium of digging … read more
This is part 3 in our series “live blogging” the design process of our new 500-series harmonics generator, working name “Colour.” The final project will be released as a full kit under the Open Source Hardware license. In our last update, “Pt. 2: Going Modular,” we settled on having three … read more
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 shared their research, schematics, designs, etc. without any legal limitations. In turn, I document my projects so that anyone who cares to can learn from, tweak, or … read more
Over the next few months, Link Simpson of Steller Electronics an I will be developing a totally new piece of recording equipment for the DIY community. We will be “live blogging” the design process to share what we learning along the way and to encourage involvement from the DIY community … read more
Over the next few months, Link Simpson of Steller Electronics an I will be developing a totally new piece of recording equipment for the DIY community. We will be “live blogging” the design process to share what we learning along the way and to encourage involvement from the DIY community … read more
The PPE mod equips your LINE2AMP reamping kit with a classic, single-coil pickup output which, in addition to providing a new tonal option, allows it to interface more “authentically” with vintage guitar amps and effects. The Emulator Circuit While browsing Jack Orman’s excellent “Lab Notebook” series, I came across his … read more
Why do we need a reamping box? People have been plugging line-level signals into guitar amps since long before the first reamping box hit the market, often with good results. This is true; in many cases, simply plugging the output of your interface into an amp and crossing your fingers … read more
This offer is now closed. Don’t miss another one! Subscribe to the mailing list below to be notified the moment new pre-orders are posted. Email: A couple weeks ago, I received an intriguing email from my friend Artur Fisher (whos RM-5 ribbon mics many of you have now built). It … read more
If you can solder one component to a couple of jacks, you can make the best passive DI money can buy. That’s no exaggeration–at it’s core, every passive DI is just a transformer, and some of the best winders in the world, Cinemag, Sowter, Lundahl and Jensen make transformers designed … read more
When I first posted my “How to Build a DIY Passive Summing Box” guide, I assumed most people would have no need for switching between mono and L/R inputs. Wrong. After numerous requests for this feature, I added switching capability to the Endless Summer DIY kits. The theory of operation … read more
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 to visit Marc Alan Goodman at his studio Strange Weather in Brooklyn to see his DIY gear and talk to him about how DIY … read more
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