The NASON-1 Mixing Console
The "NASON-1" was designed from simple op amp circuits. I designed and etched all the circuit boards and wired the whole thing completely from scratch. This was no Radio Shack kit.
(my favorite building material - wood. The "NASON-1" started its life as a pine box)
(coupled with my second favorite material - sheet metal)
The "NASON-1" was never actually in service at Attic Recording.
It lived its short, semi-useful life in my bedroom and was finally dismantled in late 1983 to form the basis of "NASON-2" which went into service in 1984 and was used both in the studio and during live performances for over two years.
(inside view of the "NASON-1's" primitive design)
(me hunched over "NASON-1")
I spent some long nights hunched over the inside of this thing soldering until my testicles turned blue. (photo unavailable)
(it was rough around the edges, but it couldn't get the job done either - too noisey.)