Things I’ve built.
The analog half of the practice. Audio electronics, loudspeakers, amplifiers, pedals, identity work — most of these were prototypes that turned into products, a few are one-off builds I keep on the bench. Every project is a study in first-principles engineering and the patience that comes with soldering five-hundred volts by hand.
CB1070i — Ultra High-Fidelity Integrated Valve Amplifier
Push-pull EL34 integrated amplifier with an integrated preamp stage, five passive components in the signal path, and adaptive auto-bias. Three prototypes, four years of refinement, mentored by Claus Byrith.
Guitar Tube Amplifier — A Hiwatt-Inspired Head
A hand-wired 100 kHz-bandwidth Hiwatt-style guitar head, built around an Italian-wound Partridge-spec output transformer. Built for huge headroom, glassy midrange, and pedal chains that don't choke.
Transmission Line Loudspeaker — Designed to Disappear
A hand-crafted transmission-line loudspeaker tuned to 23 Hz, with an aluminium composite cone, aluminium dome tweeter, and a German-spec LCR crossover hand-tuned in REW. Speakers that get out of the way.
Tube DAC — A Hybrid for High-Resolution Files
A hybrid digital-to-analog converter — Cirrus Logic 192 kHz feeding vintage gold-pin Telefunken E88CC tubes. The bridge between digital accuracy and the harmonic envelope that makes music feel like music.
Rumble Overdrive — A Pedal Built Around a Player
A hand-built overdrive inspired by Dumble preamp topology, realised in hand-selected discrete components. Built to sit in front of a clean amp and let the player do the talking.
Band Identity & Album Art — Grooved Cranial Highway
Visual identity and debut album art for an instrumental psychedelic-rock project, built around the Schwarzschild radius — the threshold of a black hole, treated as a metaphor for meaning.