Grant Muller

Several months ago Jason asked me if I could fix a MIDI Guitar. I’d didn’t have the slightest idea how to fix one, and only had speculative knowledge about how they work, so naturally I said “yeah, sure, piece of cake”. If I’d have known at the time the kind of gear lust this [...]

Back in June, I wrote a short piece on changing my music studio environment. At the close of that piece I mentioned a buddy of mine was selling an old Alesis DM-5 kit, and that I would soon be incorporating that into my setup. Although 6 months isn’t exactly soon, I managed to tackle [...]

Recently a friend asked how hard it was to replace the EEPROM battery in Korg DW-8000 keyboard. I assumed it couldn’t be that hard, looked up what kind of battery it accepted (CR2032) and said “yeah, 5 minute job”. I failed to take into account early 80s circuit construction. Sure, its no Maestro PS-1B, [...]

I built some speaker stands recently for the home studio. Rather than go through the trouble to add all the steps here, I just created an Instructable for it. You can find it here:
DIY Speaker Stands for Cheap
I got the original idea from these guys, but I thought they were a bit small so I [...]

Last weekend Cary and I were building a brick wall for a patio. The project required toting bricks from one section of the yard to another. I couldn’t use a wheelbarrow because I needed to go up some stairs (I could have gone around but it’s twice as far). We looked everywhere for brick carriers, [...]

I’ve had several chances to play my new setup now, including the Mandala. I played a live gig (recording to come) on Friday of last week, and learned a few lessons. Now that I’ve got things under control, I started to create some basic kits in Battery for my Mandala.
The Mandala is capable of subdividing [...]

When we bought our house a few years back, I finally had enough space to consolidate all my music gear into one space. I had big plans for my basement studio. Mix desk over on one side. Wall-mounted monitors. Jute coffee sack sound baffles and just the right location for recording the drums. Later I [...]

A few months ago at band practice Bill mentioned ring modulators, and asked if I knew how to make one. I had seem some circuits and knew they were pretty easy to construct so I said yeah, no problem, give me some time. Since my life is basically just going from project to project, I [...]

A friend of the band recently had a problem with his Maestro PS-1B, a phase shifter from the early 70’s designed by the famous Tom Oberheim, and asked me to take a look at it. Based on the problem, a loud humming at the output with no sign of any other signal, I figured [...]

This weekend I picked up a 100+ year old organ from a friend’s house. Thanks Ryan. Its a pump organ, made by a company that looks like “Moreto”. Apparently it was also made in Chicago.

All I know is that it doesn’t require any power other than my own two feet to operate. This makes it [...]