About HiveR
One of the first designs I built was a simple transistor distortion circuit. I believe it was the Electra Distortion. Sometimes it worked. Other times it didn’t. I spent an embarrassing amount of time working on that simple circuit to discover that my problems were due to a bad wall wart. I didn’t discover the bad wall wart until I’d scrapped several attempts on breadboards and on veroboards. I didn’t know if it was my soldering, the parts, bad connections, or what. I just knew it didn’t work. At that time I remember making it my mission to someday identify dumb problems like that one quicker.
Over time I began noticing that there were lots of similarities in circuit designs. I began seeing sub-circuits as building blocks. I began to wonder why I would breadboard the same sub-circuit again and again. I’d ask myself why I couldn’t just build it once and plug it into any chain somehow. I began working to design my circuits like that.
As I became more comfortable with my skills I began wondering if I could help others accomplish much more than I had in an even shorter amount of time. I don’t think I was a fast learner. I literally pick the hardest ways to learn everything, but generally I learn deeply. I wanted to use the depth of my learning to make a process that would enable all pedal builders to learn faster and easier than I did.
As I began to work on my pedal building system I eventually understood that what I was developing would indeed help pedal builders reach their potential faster. Over time I also came to realize that my creation system could be used to develop vocal effects, bass effects, and effects for virtually any other instrument. My system could also be used for developing rack units, multi-effect pedals, pre-amplifier stages, and mixer channels. It’s nearly limitless.
Further revelations brought me to understand that making the biggest impact on the audio effects design world would require a community of people helping each other. That my biggest contribution would be to not only provide audio effects designers with a great development system, but also to bring them together as a community with that system as a common, shared experience. To create a hive mind of audio effects engineers of all backgrounds and skill levels. That hive mind brought together with a shared development platform is becoming what I call the BUZZ.
This hive mind with a shared development platform (BUZZ) will lead to a revolution in analog audio effects design. The name HiveR is derived from our future Hive Mind Revolution (Hiv & veR). A pulling back of the black curtains of audio effects design. Together we can uncover the lost secrets, destroy the myths, open the doors to new ways of designing, and do so much more.
The HiveR brand is intended to broaden and deepen in many ways going forward. All of those ways will be focused on creating nation of builders who can share an extensive development platform and push and pull each other to reach each potential as quickly and painlessly as possible.
That is why I consider the HiveR BUZZ system the foundation for a Pro Audio FX Creation Nation.
This is the ending of your introduction to HiveR, but it is only the beginning of our journey together.
Let’s all catch the HiveR BUZZ!
And thank you for being here,
David