My Trinity channel strip design is consuming my existence, but its necessary to get this thing done in my lifetime.  I have many goals for her, but one of the big ones (and last ones) is to make it so easy to assemble a grandma could do it.  That's actually extremely difficult to pull off.  I've been working hard on that one for the past few months and its getting close to the point of extreme.  I even dream about it every night!  When I achieve that I'll be ready to move onto retail packaging, setting up reviews, working on advertising and seeking distribution for Trinity.  Its still a long ways to the finish line.  

Since I'm not building pedals anymore, I needed to come up with a substitute form of income until I release my channel strip.  I zeroed in on one idea, which is not a pedal, but similar... The LBA-2020.  Its basically a 1:1 audio transformer in a metal box the size of a tiny pedal and has 1/4" in and out jacks.  Its intended purpose is to be placed between instrument pedals to inject some transformer mojo.  The idea was spawned from customer requests to put a transformer in the Op-2 Comp and NuVision pedals.  I always have to respond that its not possible due to the dimensions of the pedal verses the size of the transformer.  This new idea of a transformer in a box is a much better approach in my opinion because it can be used with any pedal, not just inside one of my creations.  One of the ideas around the application of this box is that a user could have multiples and place them between various pedals to help create the warm sounds akin to high-end professional studio equipment.  I designed the transformer and made a working prototype, so it definitely works and imparts a high fidelity warm tone.  The transformer is a high performance layer-wound gapped style with faraday shields between the coils.  It uses a nickel alloy core for an extremely wide and linear frequency response, and its encased in a MuMetal can for magnetic shielding.  I will be manufacturing it in house on my transformer winding machine to keep the cost as low as possible.  The prototype PCB is designed and in the manufacturing phase.  I hope to sell the finished product for $99.00 USD.  Beta testing will begin sometime in the next month or so.  Anyone interested in beta testing can get in touch with me for a discounted beta version at [email protected].  If you don't like it you can absolutely return it for refund.  Thanks for checking in on me!      

If you haven't noticed, I'm not selling new pedals anymore.  What I am doing is working on a few new very cool products, which are directly related to the audio transformers I'm now making.  Here's a quick video of my transformer machine in action.