Where Every Sip is a Statement!Welcome to the DontFuckWithDaddy Mug Shop, where we don’t just sell mugs—we serve up life statements. Because let’s be real: the world doesn’t need another boring cup to hold your coffee. It needs a mug that screams your unapologetic truth. Whether you’re tearing...

If you ever heard about Jack Reacher you should meet his sister!Just like Jack, she is merciless in her pursuit of truth and justice. Both Jack and Debra are loners, but Deb needs to find her lost family. And being in the way of a determined woman proves fatal for mafias, trafficking rings and...

This Binson Echorec is from 1960 and it still works. This model is made for Scandinavian countries. I contacted the company – which isn’t the same as the original, how long the rotating drum would last. They said they didn’t know. They never had to repair or replace a drum!...

In 2014 we gathered a new team for mass production of the master bus compressor clone GSSL 4000. GSSL 4000 is reverse engineered by Jakob Erland. The sound is great but be careful not to over use it!  2 and a half day in deep concentration. People brought their own equipment but everybody was...

Projekt by Jacob Erland 12 men, 2 ½ day, coffee, pizza, no sleep= 12 x GSSL.We met 12 men in a class room over a week-end to build 13 GSSL 4000 units. We drank coffee, ate pizza and breathed soldering steam.Working hard.Concentration.Silence.Engine Room.Backside.Gyraf GSSL 4000 Exhibit.Gear is...

Mr. Caks and I met up and built 4 Gyraf G9 Tube Preamps. Design by Jakob Erland - Gyraf Audio.Quite messy but that is how it has to be!Inside one of the finished G9 units. Jakob Erland's G9 tube preamp is a high-quality, dual-channel preamp that is designed to provide warm and rich tube tone to...

I wanted to build a couple of G1176 but I ended up with 4 because I wanted to have some to use in the mixing process. It is a fairly simple project and the wiring takes about the same time as the rest of the work. For more details visit: http://mnats.net/1176.html and www.groupdiy.dk The Workshop...

The Alesis HR-16 is a drum machine that was first introduced in 1987. It was designed to provide musicians with an affordable and easy-to-use solution for creating drum patterns and beats for their music. I bought mine in 1988. So it is old! The HR-16 features 16-bit PCM samples of acoustic and...

I bought my first Roland SRV2000 in 1986. The price when it hit the market was app. 20.000 Dkr. or 3.000 US$. I bought the next for 500 US$ and the third for 100 US$. These units are highly underestimated. They deliver excellent reverb on drums including gated reverbs. Sometimes the SRV2000 works...

When I'm sixty-four...In-house mastering is done in a 64-bit environment for maximum detail and clarity. Eq's and comps are primarily Linear Phase types for zero phase distortion and ultra-high precision. Sometimes I even use my ears...Of course, there is an analog side to mastering and using tube...

Curing sticky tape problems by baking! In the '80s some tape manufacturers made magnetic tapes of sonic good quality but poor physical quality! I have restored a lot of Ampex 456 tapes from this period in my 'oven' which is a hairdryer and a thermometer. This is a cheap and very efficient method...

Bad caps are like the Plague. It happens to most electrolytic capacitors. Especially the cheap ones. You can almost always see on that capacitor if it is bad. Look at the top. It should be flat and plane. If it is bulgy or you see some brown fluid it is on its way to the eternal capacitor fields....

What is audio schematics? Audio schematics are diagrams that show the components and connections in an audio system. They are used to visualize the various components and how they are connected, providing a helpful guide for building and troubleshooting audio systems. Audio schematics typically...

Took me some time but glad to have released AudioSchematics on a new wellknown platform - WordPress. Danish version dropped as Danes easily read English. And of course we added a ton of new schematics!

Elgam Match 12c Listen here: Ride With the Wind

Phones ATF Mono.

Many tired souls have taken a nap in this chair. Including me. Usually this char is for production but exceptions can be made!

The antiques in my arsenalAKG D12 for Bass Drum and jazzy vocal. The AKG D12 is a well-known and iconic dynamic microphone that has been widely used in the recording and broadcasting industries since its introduction in the 1950s. It's particularly famous for its use on bass instruments,...