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Deep undergroud, in places people don't like to go, where things happen that your own grandma won't talk about, I was born into the body of a bean.

I don't like talking about myself too much, but here's this... madbean
  • Name: Brian
  • Location: Nashville, TN
  • Profession: Electronomagician
  • Education: B.A., University of Texas, Mathematics, 1997
  • Favorite bands: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Eliott Smith, NIN
  • Favorite Authors: Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, George R.R. Martin
  • Hobbies: none left, now....they all became my 'profession' :)
I love making music and I love making things, so pedal building is a happy accident for me. Mostly, it came from being too broke to buy any gear. I owned and used only two pedals for about a decade: a TS-10 and a Digitech PDS-1000 Digital Delay. I used those for both my bass and guitar gigs. Even my drum gigs, I think. Anyway, rather than spend money I didn't have, I decided it would be more fun to take a "peek under the hood" and see what the whole effects thing was about. That was about six years ago, and the obsession grows a little more every day!

Music: I play in a band called "Radiophonic" with my best buds Graham Duncan, Mike Galante and Daniel Loyd. We've been playing together in some form or another for almost two decades. I really love these guys. They are the best of all things: great musicians, great friends and partners in crime. We're signed to a small independent label, Soona Songs, owned and operated by none other than Graham's mother, Marilyn Duncan - a seriously talented folk musician in her own right.

Check out our rekkid, "I Could Have Been a Rocket Scientist" which was released in Nov. 2010. Note the background drawing, which I think is my schematic for a CE-2 (dorky, I know).