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Patchbay is a three-person repair studio in Rotterdam, devoted to vintage synthesizers. We are two electronics technicians and one former touring musician, and between us we have spent decades around machines that hum, drift and occasionally die on stage. Our bench sits in a quiet unit just off the Maas, where we take apart oscillators, resurrect dead filter circuits, free stuck keys and give tired capacitors somewhere better to be. Some instruments arrive barely alive; others only need a careful clean, a recalibration and someone willing to listen properly. We work slowly, document everything we find, replace only what needs replacing, and protect what makes each synth sound like itself. It is quiet, exact work, and we think it matters. Every repair leaves tested, tuned and ready for another twenty years. If yours has stopped speaking, bring it by; we'd like to hear what it used to say.

Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to keeping vintage synthesizers making the sounds they were built to make. We repair, service and restore analog instruments from the late 1960s onward, from familiar Moogs and ARPs to oddities with no service manual. Every synth that comes through the door is treated as a working instrument rather than a museum piece. We trace faults, rebuild power supplies, refresh capacitors, clean keybeds and calibrate oscillators, always with an eye on reliability and the character that made the machine worth saving. We document what we do, explain the options clearly and never replace more than necessary. Whether you need one dead voice brought back or a full restoration, we work carefully, at the bench and in conversation with you. Old synths belong on records and stages, and our job is to keep them there.