A "basement inventer" type here. If I'd put as much effort into playing music as I put into designing synth circuits I'd be a darned good musician, instead of a mediocre "noodler". As a teenager I was working as engineering technician in Silicon Valley. Didn't like big city life, so I ended up in the midwest. By day I do pretty ordinary electronics work. By night I feed my inventing/engineering streak. I've recently applied for a patent on a bit of electronic technology that can change the face of how you play synthesizers. Sort of like making a synth wet dream come to life. A bit of technology that once you spend a minute with it, you won't be able to live without it. Can't say any more about it now, except it's the best thing to happen to synths in the last 20 years. Have just gotten to the stage of starting to get a bit of notice of it from a few directions in the industry, and will likely get it aimed at the marketplace before long. You will thank me later...
I own a Micromoog, A DX7, a pair of DX7IIs, a DX21, A Davolisent something, a few other real ordinary "throwaway" keyboards, a piano, and a harpsichord. Plus some random homemade stuff. And some real radical homemade stuff. And also some really cool homemade stuff.
I cringe whenever I hear anyone refer to mp3 as "CD quality" sound (saw a consumer reports special issue magazine today call it that, which is why I don't have any faith in that magazine).
Car I own: beat-up Plymouth minivan, Mustang convertible up on blocks.
Cars I have owned: several Pacers, Studebaker, '60 Cadillac hearse.
Music I listen to: the usual Tangerine Dream, early Kraftwerk, Kitaro, and I sometimes find Archies, Moody Blues, Horseflies, Eno, Bessie Smith in the CD player.
Some favorite movies: Matrix, Thirteenth Floor, Tron, My Fair Lady, Life of Brian.
Favorite reality show: Married With Children (If you saw my family you'd understand why this show seems more real that the "reality shows").
I got into electronics when I was a little kid, just like my uncle, my father-in-law, and my 11-year-old daughter.
