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Patchbay is three people and a bench in Rotterdam. We repair vintage synthesizers of all kinds, from a Moog that needs one capacitor to a modular system that hasn't been run in thirty years.

We started because older instruments deserve to keep working. The circuitry is simple, but the failures are personal: a dead pot in a favourite key, a CV rail that drifts, a ribbon controller that was saturated in smoke. We treat each case the way our own instruments would need to be treated.

A workshop is a good place for slow work and long conversations. We're always glad to open a system on the bench, find out what it actually needs, and explain why. If you have something unwell, send it over or come visit us in Rotterdam.

Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam, and we spend our days inside vintage synthesizers. We are repair technicians first: we open the cases, replace the leaking capacitors, re-tune the oscillators that have drifted out of pitch, and bring back the filters that went silent decades ago. Our bench is crowded with service manuals, spare chips, and a soldering station that has seen more Moog panels than we can count. We started the studio because we kept meeting musicians whose favourite instruments sat unused in cupboards, not because they were broken beyond saving but because nobody nearby knew how to fix them. We still believe most of these machines can be made to sing again, and we would rather spend an afternoon finding the one bad resistor than see another good synth end up in a skip.