By popular demand, I'm bringing back the 2020S this year.  This new production run will be 100 units.  If they sell quickly, I'll produce another run after that and we'll take it from there.   I'm planning to begin producing them in mid-August of this year, or roughly 1 month from now.  They'll be available for sale at that time.  Now that I have some extra help here at LBA, it's finally possible to bring these back.  The new selling price will be $119 USD plus shipping.  These will be exactly the same as before, but with a UV Printed top instead of the sticker decal that was originally used.   If you know, you know.  If you don't, visit 2020S to learn more.

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Trav's growing place with LBA will only mean better things for our company.  I for one am excited to have him as part of our team and I'm looking forward to the day he'll be full time.  I hope that day comes sooner than expected!  Thanks for kickin' ass, Trav!

a Recording Engineer for LBA Studios.  It's all jobs that Paul experienced during his internship, but now he's digging in deeper and taking on a more serious role.  Thanks to his skill and drive, I expect to have some time freed up for myself to manage the business more effectively.  If all goes as well as I hope, LBA should see some business growth as a result of my ability to accomplish more in the same amount of time.  I'm looking forward to the future and feel lucky and honored to have quality help.

This is going to be difficult for me to pull off, but I'm doing it.  A dual product release.  Both of these products have been in development for over a year.  The long wait has been mostly due to manufacturing complications that were completely out of my control.  In 10 days I'll finally have the last thing I need - the retail packaging.  I've already begun building the first 100 of each.  Pre-ordering is currently open and is being offered with a generous discount.   Pre-orders will begin shipping in 10-12 days.  It's an exciting time.  I can't wait to share my hard work with the world.  Check out the product pages on this website to learn more about the Dark Storm and Super Storm preamps.  If you'd like to invest in one or more of these bad boys, you'll get a 30 day money back guarantee and a 1-year warranty.  Just head over to the store part of this website to pre-order yours now. 

Just 17 DiVisions remain available for purchase.  After that, they are gone forever.  It's a limited edition product after all.  Recently there was a big design update that adds more functionality to the DiVision.  I only raised the price a little bit when the updates came out.  To be honest, it's more work than what I'm getting paid for.  When there are just 10 remaining, I plan to raise the price to $399 USD.  Don't wait too long if you've been thinking about getting one. 

Here's the first official music video for my studio band, Burnt Trace.  Read the video description for details on how it was recorded. 

I put together a studio band to write and record a song for the purpose of advertising the upcoming Dark Storm and Super Storm mic preamps.  Everything was recorded exclusively with these preamps.  The resultant song turned out better than I expected.  Enough so that I decided to create a band name and release the song on iTunes.  "Burnt Trace" is Troy and Stephanie Daniel at lead vocals, Josh English on drums, and I'm playing bass, rhythm and lead guitars, Hammond organ, theremin, percussion, and backing vocals.  Our first song is called, "Dark of the Storm."  I wrote the music, Troy and Steph wrote the lyrics, and Josh wrote his drum part.   If we get any more than a few downloads it'll inspire me to work with these cool people on an EP of full length songs.  Give it a listen and if you dig it, please consider showing your support with a download from your preferred online music source.  I'm also working on a music video for the tune, which should be live on Youtube in a few weeks.  The Dark Storm and Super Storm products will hopefully be available next quarter.

I've been playing around with some final tweaks to the Dark Storm design.  I want it to be flawless and kicking  ass right out of the starting gate.  Yesterday I very slightly improved its already impressive frequency response, S/N ratio, and THD.  But, not all was a success.  I have been trying to create a circuit that illuminates a single LED when audio is present.  I've done that, but not while also meeting the design requirements.  The requirements are that it can have no affect (0%) on the THD of the Dark Storm's audio, that it can not affect the total gain (dB) of the Dark Storm in any way whatsoever, and lastly - all of the components used in the circuit must be currently in production and available.  If you know of a circuit that meets these requirements, please educate me.  I'll gladly pay you for your time and knowledge. 
My best attempt:  I opted for a discrete design because it appeared simpler and less expensive to pull off than a digital design.  I initially wanted to be able to monitor the incoming signal before it hits the pre.  Of the many designs I tried, the best one worked best when monitoring the output of the Dark Storm.  Regardless, this design failed because it adds 0.09% THD to the signal.  I don't want distortion coming from diodes and transistors that are not directly related to the audio circuit.  Unless some wiser individual can turn me hip to a solution, I'll need to just abandon the idea of a signal indicator.  I think with any sort of analog metering, such as a VU or bar meter, I'll face the same outcome.  The Dark Storm sounds so good right now that I don't want to obscure it in any way.  I think a digital solution could work, but probably would introduce some degree of digital noise, not to mention it would probably add a fair bit to the parts bill.  Ultimately, is it really necessary to have a signal present indicator when we have DAW's with metering?