Exploring and sharing engaging ideas in sound, music, and synthesis.
We are a small group of nerds passionate about making tools artists love to use.
From Eurorack to software to pedals, however you like to make music, Noise Engineering is working hard to bring something exciting to you.
California has a rich history of musical innovation and we are thrilled to be immersed in it. It was a hotspot during the birth of the electric guitar, with luminaries such as Leo Fender, Paul Bigsby, and Les Paul trading ideas at backyard get-togethers. The 1930s and '40s saw the emergence of SoCal companies like Rickenbacker, Bigsby, Fender, and Mosrite, whose innovations and designs continue to grace concert stages and recording studios around the globe. A couple decades later, up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Don Buchla would create electronic instruments so unique that the term "West Coast synthesis" is an entire style of synthesis.
Everybody here was someone else before. Now we're a bunch of folks passionate about music and making the products we wished existed.
Stephen, Kris, Markus, and Patrick all find it useful.
We care about the impact our business has on the planet. We strive to minimize our footprint, including keeping up to date on best practices, giving back through conservation-oriented campaigns, using fewer, recycled, or lowest impact materials wherever possible, and communicating our sustainability efforts to our customers. Our membership in 1% for the Planet ensures that we live up to our goals. Learn more about the way we give back and work toward sustainability here.
We change course when necessary; we don’t stay wedded to a path if data suggest it’s not the best direction for us. We refuse to stagnate.
We embrace challenges as the path to success.
We do not take ourselves too seriously.
We strive for the delicate balance between a rewarding, engaging job and a fulfilled personal life. Our team enjoys a living wage, competitive benefits, unlimited PTO, paid volunteer time, and a 4-day work week. We would be nowhere without our team, and we work hard to make sure everyone at NE knows they are highly valued.
We strive to find solutions to our challenges that we can all agree to.
We work to create a workplace that allows team members to take and feel ownership of their work product. We break down silos so that people on our team feel secure in their ownership of things and are not threatened by others coming to them with ideas. Each team member has expertise that we share with each other, and we strive to assist each other when needed.
We actively engage with our community through education, participation, and amplification of our users. We believe supporting customers includes teaching, listening, and celebrating their work.
Stephen and Kris met in the Daily Pint, a bar in Santa Monica, in 2007 and bonded over spreadsheets and sound. They got married four years later and in 2016 left their previous careers to make Noise Engineering their lives. When not modularing, they enjoy feeding friends, hanging with the dogs, board games, spreadsheeting, and the Oxford comma.
Markus initially joined the team in 2018 to test a pile of Eurorack modules. It quickly became clear that they could do just about anything and they quickly became a full-time employee. Outside of work, they spend their time obsessively brewing coffee, cooking, and chasing after their rescue pup, Kora.
Patrick began working with Noise Engineering in 2017 by demoing modules and producing official demo videos. He joined the team in 2021. He’s deeply passionate about modular synth performance, sound design, and community building, and can occasionally be found hunting for comets and space junk.
