Thursday, December 3, 2009
Whoops forgot
..obviously, the new pricing will not affect anyone who's already payed the deposit for a Moisturizer while the old price was in action.
New economy, new Moisturizer price
Regrettably, i have to raise the price of The Ekdahl Moisturizer to $US400. This is not only a survival tactic but something i've deemed necessary after slowly learning how to run a business and all the freaking expenses involved with it. It sucks, but it's life - hopefully it won't discourage you good folks who like The Ekdahl Moisturizer from spending your good money on me ('cause i sure can need it!).
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Ekdahl Moisturizer Commercial
Made by Miguel Sabogal, starring Nicolette Le Faye - and of course the Ekdahl Moisturizer!
Friday, October 23, 2009
The next product [censored] is in it's first prototyping stage!
Spent some time this week prototyping the new Knas product! Don't wanna spill the beans on what it is just yet but i can say that this is more of an effects unit only, it's however going to be just like the Ekdahl Moisturizer in the sense that it's going to range from being "normal" and "useful" to sound completely retarded/noisy/chaotic. It's - of course - also gonna have tons of fun CV ins and outs.
Finally got more parts after some supplier delays
I finally have parts to continue the Moisturizer adventure, had a slight pause of a week and a half in the building process but next week it's starting up again. Gotta say tho it was nice to chill for a second..
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Way ahead of delivery schedule
All orders for December are sent out with the exception of one that i'm expecting to send out this week. 3 Moisturizers of the current batch of 30 are awaiting delivery, 3 more are awaiting final assembly.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
11 Moisturizers delivered of the current batch of 30,
..and 6 more ready to go! I should be well down half of octobers delivery list at the end of this week.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Moisturizer demo & performance in Chicago this weekend
I got a message from Robert Kleckner in Chicago, he's going to do a Moisturizer demo in his studio this weekend. If you're interested in attending, contact robert at 
Friday, July 24, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
10 tanks epoxied
10 tanks epoxied, 2 more ordered. I really wish i had a quicker and better looking way of protecting the connections, but this will have to do for now...
Failure
During the process of making the new enclosures, i managed to screw it up and several of the new chassis got visual flaws. This is what happened:
Saturday, July 11, 2009
About the spring reverb
Added to the site:
The spring reverb tank is fastened to the unit using self-adhesive velcro. This came about because I and Martin were discussing how to protect the springs while in transport and we realized that if it was detachable that'd be the best way. The tank is connected to the rest of the unit using RCA connectors, the reason for this is because that has been the standard for connecting reverb tanks since the 60's (i think). In *theory* you could connect any reverb tank to the ins/outs but I take *no* responsibility if you manage to blow your Moisturizer up (shouldn't be able to happen but gotta cover my ass). One of the neat thing with the velcro is that you choose which side to have your cables on; the front or the rear, if choose rear, the pickup of the springs is on the left side, if you choose front, the pickup of the springs are on the right side. This solved Martin's and my little argument about how it for him was very important of having the cables on the back, and for me very important to have the pickup on the right.
The spring reverb tank is fastened to the unit using self-adhesive velcro. This came about because I and Martin were discussing how to protect the springs while in transport and we realized that if it was detachable that'd be the best way. The tank is connected to the rest of the unit using RCA connectors, the reason for this is because that has been the standard for connecting reverb tanks since the 60's (i think). In *theory* you could connect any reverb tank to the ins/outs but I take *no* responsibility if you manage to blow your Moisturizer up (shouldn't be able to happen but gotta cover my ass). One of the neat thing with the velcro is that you choose which side to have your cables on; the front or the rear, if choose rear, the pickup of the springs is on the left side, if you choose front, the pickup of the springs are on the right side. This solved Martin's and my little argument about how it for him was very important of having the cables on the back, and for me very important to have the pickup on the right.
12 Panels printed and 4 circuit boards done
12 Panels printed, another 1-2 hours and they should be drilled out. Also 4 more circuitboards are done, 4 more are well on their way - hoping to ship of at least 8 moisturizers (if not 12) next week.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
ARGHHh
Well tragedy is at hand, 300 knobs bought and none fit even tho the last order of the same parts did.. hopefully i'll resolve this before i get delayed *again* with the orders due this week. Sorry folks, i guess i've still got things to learn (like never to trust anyone ever).
June 30th - Updating the reverb control
Found out that with some minor component change, the reverb amount - while controlled with an expression pedal only - gets more controllable, don't really know how i could have missed that in my testing. Looks like the following boards from this batch are gonna be called Rev 3.1
June 29th - Moisturizer batch 3 finally getting together
Sent out the first two Moisturizers from batch no. 3 in the mail today, if all goes well there'll be 6 more coming this week - damn, this is now going faster then i anticipated!
June 16th (or something) - Moisturizer batch no. 2 sold out
Phew, after a lot of struggling and some component delays i'm finally done with batch no 2, now i can start working on the next 20 PCBs that are hanging around... at this point i really don't have that much time for my repair business anymore, just gonna spend my time moisturizing..
May 31st 2009 - Placing of PCB order
Well, i had this order planned for long so i placed another order for 5, feels kinda futile considering the vast amount of orders i got due to Matrixsynth's feature - whatdoido??
May 30th 2009 - All hell breaks loose
Wow, after selling the first 4 moisturizers, one of my customers contacted Matrix Synth and now all hell's been breaking loose, orders are popping in as unsuspectedly as hail on a sunny summer day.. best hail ever
May 17th-ish 2009
The first Moisturizer has gone to its buyer, keeping one for myself, and 3 more to go - should be done in a few days...
April 2009 again
This thing is becoming good enough that i've gotten an investment so that i can buy *new*, fancy parts to play with
April 2009 continues...
The Moisturizer is reaching its final state, now with cross-faders on both the wet/dry mix of the reverb and the VCF, now we're talking!
April 2009 - Moisturizer update
The addition of the possibility of using expression-pedals on the CV input jacks makes this thing more versatile
February 2009 continues
The Moisturizer gets the addition of a the VCF LP/HP/BP cross-fader, one more CV input to add to the list
Sometime in the dark past, januari 2009 - The birth of The Ekdahl Moisturizer
The first Moisturizer is built onto a perfboard, mostly with found / used components.. it looks shitty, but man it sounds cool... No CVs or cross-faders except for cutoff. This stuff takes a loooong time as it's done in bits and pieces whenever i have a free moment, no time to dedicate to this stuff...
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