Subject 01.
Twelve years on a bench. Forty-seven documented experiments. One pair of hands that build the box, run the wire, tune the cabin, write the bassline, and play the record. The brand is "Mad Lab Sound." The operator is one person.
I started doing this because nothing I bought sounded right and I didn't know any better than to try and fix it. The first enclosure I built was plywood, glue, and a guess, in a garage that wasn't mine.
It worked. It worked better than the one I'd been told to buy. So I built another one. And another. And eventually one for somebody else.
That was twelve years ago. Since then I've shifted between the hardware side and the performance side enough times that I stopped counting which I am — installer, fabricator, producer, DJ — and started just calling the whole thing what it is. A lab. With experiments.
The brief I work to is the same regardless of which lane the job is in: make the sound do something it wasn't supposed to be able to do, on a budget that doesn't make a fool of the customer, and document it well enough that the next experiment is better than the last.
If it can't be measured,
it didn't happen.
A short timeline.
"I don't really separate the build side from the play side. They're the same problem, walked from opposite ends. You're always trying to get a room to do something it's not quite set up to do."
— SUBJECT 01 / IN INTERVIEW / 2026
In the shop.
In the booth.
Trust marks.
Bring me a subject.
Whether it's a system, a record, or a stage — the lab's open.