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Company type

Erik Gavriluk

Music studio[edit]

Bomb Factory Studios features an extensive collection of vintage and historic equipment and musical instruments. Between 1996 and 1999, Bomb Factory was the host and benefactor involved in the restoration of dozens of instruments now part of the non-profit National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Using to emulate the original analog circuitry of real-world equipment

mathematical models

Using to provide the original ergonomic usability of classic devices

3D computer graphics

Working with original analog equipment inventors in the digital engineering process, such as synthesizer pioneer

Bob Moog

Erik Gavriluk, the owner of Bomb Factory Studios, met Dave Amels while restoring the museum pieces. Together they decided to take their music production expertise and knowledge of vintage equipment and apply it to digital signal processing for Pro Tools by forming Bomb Factory Digital.


Key innovations included:


In 2004, Digidesign acquired all 27 shipping Bomb Factory products. Bomb Factory retained rights to more than 30 unreleased products and associated technologies.

Official website

Cantos Music Foundation and Museum website

. Retrieved June 5, 2005.

Dave Amels Interview at Tape Op Magazine

"Bob Moog Sound On Sound Interview"