Flint vs Laguna S 2.1

Patchbay began in a small, cluttered workshop in Rotterdam, where solder smoke and old capacitors seem to belong together. We are a three-person studio, which means every synthesizer that comes through our door is handled by one of the same people who started the project. No call center, no hand-off to strangers. We repair vintage synthesizers: the dusty analog beasts, the rare oddities, the ones with missing knobs and mysterious tuning drift. Our work is part electronics, part archaeology, part stubborn love. We listen to the hum before we open the case, and we believe most vintage synths are not dead, just waiting for someone to pay attention. In a city known for moving quickly, we prefer taking our time. Patchbay exists to keep old voices alive, one oscillator, filter, and power supply at a time. If you have a synth that sings, whispers, or hums through the decades, we would be glad to meet it.

Patchbay is a small workshop tucked away in the heart of Rotterdam, where three friends have been breathing new life into vintage synthesizers since 2018. Each of us brings a different background to the bench: one spent years restoring Moog and ARP instruments in a London studio, another cut his teeth on modular systems in Berlin's electronic music scene, and the third holds a degree in electrical engineering focused on analog circuit design. Together we've repaired everything from sun-faded Korgs to temperamental Oberheims, always with the same goal in mind: returning each instrument to the hands of the musicians who need it, rather than letting it collect dust on a shelf. We believe every synthesizer has a voice worth preserving, and that the warmth of analog sound is more than voltage — it's memory, texture, and story. At Patchbay, we don't just fix machines; we keep the music alive.