Updates & A New Video

Its been an intense past couple months.  The main point of my focus is getting Trinity to be retail ready.  This has proven to be a nearly insurmountable task due to unreliable manufacturers of necessary components.  By unreliable I mean they take 3-4 months to deliver if they actually deliver at all.  This constant source of stress and frustration has led me down the road of transformer design.  My Great Uncle Joe Marino has been helping me wrap my head around transformer design and all the nuances of it for years.  Sadly, he passed away a couple weeks ago at the age of 93, though not without helping me reverse engineer a much needed transformer!  He was a great mentor to me and to others as well.  I'll probably dedicate a future post.  Anyway, I now have several necessary transformers designed for the channel strip and built some impressive models.  I'm purchasing a professional transformer winding machine next week to scale up production and improve accuracy.  The transformer manufacturing could be a business in itself, which is what I'll eventually build it into.

I have been very busy designing and building a custom tube powered stereo inductor-based passive EQ for a customer, which I find quite exciting.  Despite that, I managed to find the time to make an instructional video for the diligent DIYer.  Have you ever considered rolling your own paper-in-oil tone caps?  Its not impossible.  Here's how you can do it: