Little Labs was founded in 1988 by me, Jonathan Little

That is the first line on the history page of littlelabs.com, and it is still true. One person, one bench, a house in the Hollywood Hills.

Below: Glamour Photo (2021), Little Labs World Headquarters, Little Labs Staff (1995).

In my teenage years in the ‘70s, I learned basic electronics in my Father’s lab at Stanford University and became passionate about rock n roll.

I became further involved in the Palo Alto music scene in high school and then took a course in music, recording, & electronics at College for Recording Arts in San Francisco. Then I headed south to Los Angeles, looking for a recording studio.

For a reasonably comprehensive background article on myself which is suitable for a laugh, here is a link to a ‘Behind the Gear’ column on Little Labs from Tape Op #74 .

What the name means

His father ran a lab at Stanford. The graduate students called the kid who was always underfoot Little Labs. He learned basic electronics there in the 1970s, got into rock and roll in the Palo Alto scene, took a course in music, recording and electronics at the College for Recording Arts in San Francisco, then went south to Los Angeles looking for a studio.

The press

Tape Op ran a Behind the Gear column on Little Labs in issue 74. Little describes it as suitable for a laugh.