By Niklas Eriksson on 9/29/2008 9:06 PM

Today I finally got my Yamaha CP-70B tuned by a professional piano technician. The name of the technician is Lars Wahlberg and he did a tremendous job of bringing the piano back to its former glory. Lars is a member of the Swedish Piano Technician Association, SPTF. If you need your piano tuned or serviced I can definitely recommend Lars. You'll find his contact information in page below:

http://www.sptf.com/medlemsregister/malar_sthlm/index.html

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I currently have my Moog Minimoog Voyager Old School placed on top of the piano since I really don't have any other place in my studio where I can put it and still use it. The Voyager Old School is an extraordinary synthesizer so I definitely want it in a place where I actually can play it without being surrounded by lots of gear that interferes with the playing. On top of the piano is a perfect spot for it ...

By Niklas Eriksson on 9/8/2008 10:30 AM

Yesterday the Swedish Moog distributor (Fitzpatrick Import Group) had orgainzed a small Moog-event taking place a Kingside Studios in Stockholm. Musicians like Mats Schubert (from a Swedish band called 'Bo Kaspers Orkester') and Pamelia Kurstin participated in the event performing and showing of various Moog products.

Mats Schuber from Bo Kaspers Orkester playing the Moog Minimoog Voyager.

 

Pamelia Kurstin playing the Moog Theremin.

I was also invited to talk about vintage Moog synthesizers and for the accation I had brought along my Moog Modular. Spending the last week of preparing for the event I was kind of worried that the Moog would fail but in the end it all went very smooth. I'm not sure that the audience appriciated my presentation since I mostly talked about technical issues regarding vintage Moog's. Luckily I had some help from a good friend of mine who is an expert in using modular synthesizers (Thanks Niklas Winde!).

A very good friend of mine, Mattias Olsson also came by to experience the event.

 

By Niklas Eriksson on 9/6/2008 11:41 PM

Today I finally made a new attenuator/multiple panel to replace the original quad blank panel of my Moog Modular System 35. Since the Moog lacks a lot of multiples I decided to make a new panelen with four attenuated multiples and two normal quad mutiples. See the picture below:

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The panelen is made of black anodized aluminium with a thickness of 1.5 mm. The holes are milled and the text/graphics are engraved.

By Niklas Eriksson on 4/25/2008 12:38 PM

Yesterday I finally got my Minimoog Voyager Select Series (walnut cabinet with blue backlight).

Testing the Moog Minimoog Voyager Select Series.

I also bought a VX-351 CV Expander in order to be able to use all the features of the instrument in a more experimental way. Naturally I tested to run the Voyager along with the studio's grand old lady (the Moog Modular) and I can assure you that it sounded great! The Voyager definately sound as good as it looks!

By Niklas Eriksson on 2/18/2008 10:51 AM

I have spent the entire weekend working on the new analog mixing console that I'm building for the studio. Despite only having 16 input channels the console will be physically quite large. Last night we started to build the frame of the console which is mainly made out of solid oak. I hope to have the console ready by the end of May. I'll try to post some pictures of the console along the work with it. Please, stay tuned for continuous updates of the progress!

By Niklas Eriksson on 2/9/2008 3:42 PM

The core business of NEriks Audio is to provide professional repair and restoration services of vintage synthesizers and vintage studio equipment. Our knowledge of vintage synthesizers from manufactures like Moog has also resulted in some inquires about servicing, repairing and selling modern equipment from Moog. In order to provide our customers with modern equipment from Moog, NEriks Audio recently became an authorized Moog dealer. In relation to our Moog dealership we naturally decided to invest in some Moog gear for our own studio ...

Yesterday we got the first shipment from Moog. I spent the entire night installing and testing the new equipment in the studio.  Among the gear we got is a Moog Little Phatty and some Moogerfoogers. I really like the fooger's but being a analog synthesizer geek I would have prefered that Moog provider the Moogerfooger line of products in a compatible format to their old vintage modular products.

By Niklas Eriksson on 2/7/2008 12:50 PM

Welcome to the completely redesigned website of NEriks Audio. After a few weeks of hard work we are finally up and running! With the new website I also decided to start my own blog. I don't have a clue what this blog is about so we'll probably have to wait and see how things develop!