The box exists because the session needed it.
Jonathan Little spent twenty-five years as the staff tech at A&M, Conway, The Village and Cherokee, building one-off boxes to fix what those rooms ran into that night. Little Labs has been selling those boxes since 1988.
Twelve boxes, each one aimed at a single problem
Phase you can hear but cannot flip. A DI that has to go both directions. Bass resonance that lives under the note. Every one of these started as a favour for an engineer who was stuck.
IBP / IBP Junior
The phase control that a polarity button cannot give you.
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Redeye 3D
Direct box one way, re-amp the other, listening through the whole chain.
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Pepper
Puts guitar pedals in the middle of a pro-level signal chain.
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PCP
One instrument, three amps, every path isolated.
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VOG
Bass resonance you can place, on a 500-series card.
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i-VOG
The VOG circuit in a quarter-rack box, with an instrument input.
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Monotor
A monitoring path clean enough to hear a dying capacitor.
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LL2A
An opto compressor built to sit across a bus all day.
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LMNOPRE
A custom-shop preamp that is not a reissue of anything.
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Redcloud
Eight passive rotary faders on a DB25, made for Don Smith.
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STD
Runs a guitar down a mic cable without losing the top.
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THAT70SEQ
The tone stack out of a 1970s receiver, built properly.
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Accessories
Part numbers for everything that bolts to, or plugs into, a Little Labs box.
Read the box →Neil Young, Tony Iommi, Billy Gibbons, Tchad Blake
Little Labs publishes a partial user list of eighteen names and a handful of quotes, buried at the bottom of one product page. They are worth reading first.
The PCP is really amazing, –it does a lot, but what I really dig is it allows me to use my vintage effects on everything. It is my ultimate studio tool.
One man, one bench, a house in the hills
Little Labs is Jonathan Little. He learned electronics in the 1970s in his father's lab at Stanford, took a course at the College for Recording Arts in San Francisco, then went south looking for a recording studio and found nine of them.
Salty Dog. Devonshire. Cherokee. Toto's 1984 world tour. The Village. A&M. Conway, as chief tech. Marcussen Mastering. Chalice. Every product in the catalogue traces back to a problem in one of those rooms.
Sold through dealers, in eighteen shops on four continents
Little Labs does not sell direct. Sweetwater ships anywhere in the United States, Perfect Circuit and Vintage King keep stock, KMR Germany ships almost everywhere outside North America and Australasia.
Ask who has stock
Little Labs will tell you which dealer is holding the box you need right now. Service and parts run through the same line.