Skydstrup: custom built audio and switching systems.
Does the Custom Shop design and build complete systems including all cable & wiring work?
The answer is Yes!
With the culmination of over 20 years experience in both designing and building complete rack and audio systems, you can relax knowing that your system will be designed and constructed to provide you with the best sounding and most reliable system money can buy.
Complete Rack or Audio Systems include:
- Design consultation & evaluation
- Custom designed & constructed by Steen Skrydstrup
- No tonal loss throughout your entire system
- No ground noise, no hum, and maximum protection against airborne interference
- All cabling hand made with special technique for optimal noise protection
- Road worthy construction that can withstand the rigorousness of world touring
- Tech support
Here at our in-house Custom Shop we can design and build just about anything you can dream up.
Perhaps you have some old stomp boxes that sounds cool but too flimsy to withstand the rigorousness of live touring?
Or maybe you would like a custom made interface to connect your wah, volume pedal, whammy and midi controller?
Whatever it may be, we can design and build it.
Everything from custom switchers, power supplies, interfaces to one-of-a-kind unique products ...
Don't just nail vintage tone... CONTROL it. Maven Peal's patented Sag and Wattage control knobs give you the power to dial-in traditionally ear-blistering tone at volumes as low as one watt, up to 100 (depending on your model).
If you're researching guitar amps, you know there are literally hundreds to choose from. Many allow you to lower the wattage, but no other allows you to control power supply sag. Maven Peal's Sag knob gives you a virtual range of recitifiers to select, from 0% to 25% sag. All other amplifiers give you one sag setting (except of course, dual and triple rectifiers which give you two or three).
You can actually adjust headroom. You can adjust how much your strings "bloom" or "attack." You can a/b two different power tube flavors with the flip of a switch. You can bag your power conditioner. You can record without noise gates. You can "blast" without blasting. And you can do a whole lot more that you can't do with any other guitar amplifier ...
Groove Tubes started back in the late 1970's when Aspen Pittman, founder and visionary, hired some technical folks to explore why tubes performed and sounded so different. Apsen has always had a great fascination with tubes, tone and amps and his personal collection of vintage amps and tube recording mics hovers around 250+ pieces! Driven by curiosity, as much as an itch to start a new business, Aspen and these engineers discovered entirely new tube operating characteristics to measure and new ways of interpreting these test data results. This research became the foundation for the Groove Tubes performance testing and matching process we still use today.
Over the last 20 years, Groove Tubes has grown from a modest garage workshop to an international business with over 1,200 U.S. retail outlets and distributors in more than 40 countries worldwide. The company is run by guitar amp tone lovers, and while the organization has long since moved out of the garage, that tinkering workshop vibe has never left their day-to-day operations. The current list of Groove Tube believers is frankly too comprehensive to list (see our Friends and Relations in this section), suffice it to say that most professional guitar players are using Groove Tubes in their amps, playing some kind of Groove Tubes amp, or recording with a GT mic or signal processing.
Now as the established guru for tube tone, it was natural for Aspen to expand his product line to include tube gear. His first breakthrough invention, the Speaker Emulator, allows the output of a tube guitar amp to directly interface with a recording console or a PA mixer. Based on this patent, Aspen formed GT Electronics, which eventually developed into a wide range of tube guitar preamps, tube amps and guitar speaker systems. Aspen also branched into tube based recording audio gear with the development of the GT tube microphones, tube compressors, mic preamps, and EQ's ...