About
Photo Credit: John Fell
My name is David Morrin. I am a technician at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, a department of the Tisch School of Arts at New York University. The Recorded Music department has three studios that are maintained by a staff of technicians, of which I am one. Previously, I was a technician at Main Drag in Brooklyn where I worked on a wide variety of musical instrument electronics including amplifiers, speaker cabinets, effects/signal processors, keyboards, electric guitars, and anything else in that general world.
I can be reached at dwmorrin@gmail.com
This website is something of an online notebook for myself. Some articles are written like tutorials in various electronic subjects, but really they are just my own notes to myself. If anyone else finds them useful, then that would be even better.
I play guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards with enough proficiency to have previously worked as a professional musician. In my younger days I dabbled with band and orchestra instruments. I can still squeak out a tune on a woodwind and make some racket on a trumpet, but I never studied those instruments seriously.
My main hobby at the moment is a modular synthesizer system. This grew out of a modular guitar effects project.
A lot of what I am writing and recording here is gleaned from other sites, and I will credit them in my articles if I take anything directly. I partly started this site to collect the good information I was getting, and sometimes giving, on the various DIY forums I was frequenting.
Some of my favorite sites are:
"Pedal-centric" sites. Usually less technical, better for beginners:
geofex.com
diystompboxes.com (forum)
freestompboxes.com (forum)
beavisaudio.com
electrosmash.com
dirk-hendrik.com
smallbearelec.com
My more "serious" audio favorites:
sound.westhost.com
douglas-self.com
music-electronics-forum.com (forum)
Synthesizer sites:
musicfromouterspace.com
birthofasynth.com
paia.com
electro-music.com (forum)
Favorite Books on Electronics:
Solid State Servicing by William Sloot
Small Signal Audio Design by Douglas Self
Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill
RCA Tube and RCA Transistor Manuals
Any service manual that includes circuit descriptions/analysis