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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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.

AKG D12 for Bass Drum and jazzy vocal.AKG D140eAKG D707. Got it in 1979. This is THE mike for snare drum!TElefunken M610.Shure 565SD Unisphere.