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Tom Gruning         

News: It's been a while since I added anything to this page so figured I'd change that. It has been a busy couple of years and I've been having huge fun, often spending seven days a week in the shop building stuff for clients and occasionally a little something for my own studio. For the most part my work has improved considerably since I began cobbling boxes together with salvaged parts a few short years ago. In any case, I continue to learn and am always on the lookout for inexpensive pre-amps that sound like expensive pre-amps.

I went to Berlin for the AES convention from April 23rd to the 30th. The convention had its ups and downs, but was generally a good experience and happily I ran into an old bud, Mark Drews who teaches recording in Norway. We had fun catching up on the last 18 years.

Much of this summer will be devoted to restoring and customizing two consoles; one that I'm building from the carcass of a Ward Beck 1202, and the other a 1970s vintage Quantum Labs desk. Lots of custom woodwork going into both of these. I will post pictures when they are done.

Damn...the summer is over and it's getting chilly out. Of course my plans to spend the summer working on my consoles got blown out of the water. Instead I've been working on some extensive projects for various clients. I have a boatload of vintage modules in the shop including Langevin, Altec, RCA, Ward Beck (441s and 402s), and a few I'm forgetting. I've also settled on a standard VU meter for most of my cases. So look for a bunch of new designs in the next few months.

10/13/2014:  I think most of the newer pairs will be fairly straight-ahead, un-complicated and just solid.  I've started re-supplying the shop, standardizing some procedures to be more in touch with the rest of the world.  I'm looking forward to working on some nice, solid, and beautiful boxes this winter.

10/22/2014: I've decided to stop taking in new work for a few months. Generally my clients are very patient people, but I just don't think it's fair to make them wait several months while I catch up on backlog. I hope to be caught up in three to five months and will be back to receiving new projects. Sorry for the inconvenience.

3/17/2015: Okay folks...I'm getting caught up so will be accepting new work on a somewhat limited basis. Call first as I plan on only working on one or two outside projects per month.