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skywave discography

 

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Prototype of first Death By Audio Pedal:
Total Sonic Annihilation
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Then the Sound Saw

 

--Harmonic Transformer
Death By Audio add made by Jacob Ried from Alcian Blue
Soundwave Breakdown

Interstellar Overdriver
Move to Brooklyn is rough.
East Williamsburg = Bushwick
A Place To Bury Strangers is formed.

Photo from video "I've Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart" by Takako (Troublemaker Videos)

Supersonic Fuzz Gun




Master Volume option added to the Interstellar Overdriver
 
The wrapping turns to one of kind silkscreened boxes.
The Octave Clang



At the Death By Audio lab.

 


Death By Audio studios 2005 is the home of:

Dirty On Purpose
Coin Under Tongue
Death By Audio Recording Studio
Kill Brooklyn Music
Gregory J Wilson (Photographer)
A Place To Bury Strangers

DEATH BY AUDIO the venue is born. Fuzz WAR  
Matt Conboy in the old lab.
ROBOT
secretysynth box built for art show at secret project robot
 
 
skywave-1995-2003- ----2001---- -2002-DBA------->------------- 2003-Brooklyn,-Here-We-Come -- -2004---- --2005-Death-By-Audio-the-Studio-is-Born 2006------ 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
 
 
Quotes from venue owners:
“Get the f*ck out of here!”
“I am going to kill you.”
“I've only had to wear earplugs twice in my entire life and both times were tonight.”
Glueing back on the headstock to the bass between shows.



Cherry Coated Records Studios Fredericksburg, VA




Cherry Coated Records, Recording Music, Reading Books about Electronics, Circuit Bending

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Some are drawn into schematics and then built from those designs.









Pedal ideas are worked out on the solderless breadboard and the DBA Breakout Box


Effect Pedals, Dance Pad USB Control Devices, Electric Guitars 12 String + Baritone w/OctaFuzz


All 4 tires slashed again.
Stolen Aims Lead Head
Smashed in windows
Stolen TV
Stolen VCR
Car battery stolen
Stolen Bass Tapes
Broken winshield wipers
Mystery bullet hole
Dead dog in a plastic bag
Burning cars
Neighbors complaining about the noise
Gabe Molnar is mugged
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Hand Painted DBA Banner by Gabe Molnar + Oliver Ackermann

Gabe Molnar goes on to form 1 Aeon a T-Shirt Company baased out of Brooklyn, NY. His portfolio is stolen by Brooklyn Industries and well let's just say they came out with a bunch of cool shirts that year.

 
Silkscreened 2004 catalog


Wrapping the pedals in one of a kind silkscreened posters.


Manufactured Blank Circuit Boards. Photo By Jen Siska

List of companies that based pedals on ideas from Death By Audio! What an honor! These are all great companies/..Electrocution revolution!

Napalm Effects

Delorean Musical

Loooper
Audible Disease

Tone Factor
Superking

+++Many More



Oliver at the work bench. Photo By Gregory J Wilson
The Death By Audio 2006 Pedal Builders

Matt Conboy


George Wilson


Jason Amos

Kaan

Spencer

Nathan

 
Interstellar Overdriver Deluxe   Coin Under Tongue LP 1st Record Released on Death By Audio Records

New layout for the Octave Clang
Best Leave the real work to the proffessionals! (Travis Johnson, Matt Conboy, and Oliver Ackermann)