LoFio Electronics

We've still got a bunch of lofi microphones and pre-amps available at Encore Instrument Repair in Dayton! Would make great gifts for the musician on your list! Share this post and get an extra 20% off!!!

Come in and ask for demo. Happy to let you take them for a test drive!

Fun new one off! Introducing the LoFio Virginia Slims Micröphone! If your Mom ever sent you to your room so she could sit, smoke ci******es, and gossip with your aunt on the phone for 2 and half hours, this is the mic for you! What it lacks in output, it makes up for in smokey nostalgia. Available now at Encore Instrument Repair in Dayton. First $25 takes it!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by our booth, said hey, bought a mic, or even tried one out at Handmade Holiday! We had a blast!

We've still got a bunch more lofi microphones and pre-amps for sale at Encore Instrument Repair in Dayton! Come grab a weird mic for the home recordist on your list! DM for shipping!

Introducing 2 new models! The FD100 Fuzz Phone and the TR2 Telephone Receiver Tube Pre-amp (with HS1 handset included)

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Come see us at Handmade Holiday this weekend!

Thanks to Brandon Berry at The Dayton Daily News for the write up! Come see us at Handmade Holiday at Yellow Cab on Dec 5th and 6th!

Local instrument repairman turns dead tech into rock ‘n’ roll gear, and you can buy it David Payne wants to be a rock ‘n’ roll preservationist. In some ways, he already is one.

New model out today!!! Introducing the LF2s! The LF2 is a lofi intercom mic and I'm selling these as a stereo pair! $75 for the pair. Made from reclaimed electronics. Comes in the original box. Available now at Encore Instrument Repair: Dayton Musician's Service Since 1986 in Dayton!

A little about the LF2:

You can use these on anything, but far and away the best use I've found for them is on a bass cab. I was trying to make a sub kick when I made my first intercom mic, the LF1. What I didn't consider before I tried it on a kick drum, was the frequency response of the intercom speaker that functions as the mic element. It's almost all midrange! Just like the phones in a lot of ways, but with a little wider response. It doesn't handle low end very well at all. So, when I put it on a kick drum, the drum just destroyed the mic! Almost sounded like an 808 or something. Pretty cool, but what would it sound like on a bass cab? So I put it in front of a clean bass amp at a moderate volume, and it fuzzed out in the most glorious way! I've been using the LF1 on the bass amp for every session I've done in the studio since! I mic the amp with a "good" mic and run a DI into a cool old pre, like I always do, and then I just add a little bit of the fuzz mic in to add some harmonics to taste!

It'll also add a little dirt to vocals, especially when you hit it kinda hard. Will do a cool dynamic thing where it breaks up with your dynamics. Sing softer it's cleaner, get loader it'll fuzz out!

Also, I should I add, if anything ever goes wrong with a LoFio product, just bring it into the shop and I'll fix it up for ya!

The HS1 hand set mic is now on sale at Encore Instrument Repair in Dayton!

When I'm not making weird microphones, on stage, or in the studio, I'm also an instrument repair tech. So, bring me those guitars, amps, and keyboards that need a little fixing up and grab a mic while you're here!