Tag: Behind the Scenes
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A Short Pause for the Most Important Arrival of Our Lives
The RhPf Electronics online shop is closed for a little while. Our final trip to the post office was on Friday, July 31, and every order placed before the deadline was shipped before we stepped away. WWe expect the shop to remain closed until sometime in November. We do not yet know exactly when we… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Regista – Part 1: The Name
A Midfield Beginning I have always been a football fan. I love the rhythm of the game, the movement between players, and the way a match can shift in a single instant when someone reads the field better than everyone else. My eyes never stayed on the striker. Instead, they drifted to the middle of… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Regista – Part 2: The Sound
The Console Nobody Remembers Ask any engineer to name the great Neve designs, and you will hear the same answers every time. The 1073. The 1081. The 80 Series consoles that defined the sound of rock in the 1970s. Those modules are cloned, obsessed over, and reproduced in every format imaginable. They have achieved the… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Regista – Part 3: How It Works
A Console Mindset in a Pedal Format Regista looks simple at first glance, yet the internal architecture follows the logic of a recording console rather than a typical guitar pedal. Every stage of the circuit works toward the same purpose. The goal is to give the player precise and musical control of the mids, similar… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Regista – Part 4: The Graphic Design
We Just Can’t Ever Have Just a Simple Conversation Most of our conversations do not start with a brief. Thomas cannot seem to answer a simple question without first taking you on a twenty-minute journey through his entire emotional history with the subject, and this one was no different. It began with his first encounter… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Catana
Some collaborations are planned. Some collaborations are planned. Others feel like they were already waiting somewhere in the dark, long before the people involved ever crossed paths. This one was the latter. For this special edition, we had the honor of collaborating with Oz; an extraordinary photographer and visual artist who lived in Basel with… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Mosphoros – Part 4: The Graphic Design
Finding the Shape of a New Myth When I first heard the name Mosphoros, I immediately understood that the character behind it was not just another mascot. The name plays on “the bringer of MOSFET,” and it carries the weight of a newly invented figure in a fictional mythology. My goal became clear from the… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Mosphoros – Part 3: How It Works
The Architecture of Motion Mosphoros was designed around movement. Instead of a single gain block followed by a tone circuit, it uses several interacting MOSFET stages that build texture, depth, and harmonic weight as you play. Each section responds to the previous one, so the sound never just increases in volume; it grows in character.… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Mosphoros – Part 2: The Sound
Beyond Tubes For decades, the holy grail of guitar tone has been the tube amp. The sag, the bloom, the compression, it’s the sound everyone loves. But tubes are also fragile, inconsistent, and, frankly, obsolete. So the question became: why stop there? Why not capture that same organic feel with modern components, and push it… Read more
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Behind the Scenes – Mosphoros – Part 1: The Name
The Birth of a God Mode MOSFET Drive Some pedals begin with a sound. Mosphoros began with a challenge.I wanted to build the ultimate all-MOSFET drive. Not yet another “MOSFET-based” pedal that just borrows the diodes for clipping and calls it a day, but one that truly lives and breathes MOSFET tone from input to… Read more