![]() They weren’t designed for musicians based on the build quality or by how they functioned. I couldn’t take the cheap plastic pedals anymore. I could only take so many close-but-not-quite options before I decided to take action. I’d see gear that would come close to what I was envisioning, but would still miss the mark. Bluetooth was taking over the world so I knew there had to be something there.īecause my bands never made me an overnight sensation, I wasn’t the millionaire I thought I’d be by then, so I kept the idea as just that an idea.īut it kept nagging me. Somewhere around the early 2010s I started to ideate on a hands-free, wireless solution. With so many apps that handled charts and sheet music, there should also be an easy, hands-free, wireless way to control them. Orchestral musicians, utility players, singer songwriters a wide variety.Īnd they all had the same issue: using paper music in an exceedingly paperless world. Around the same time I also befriended musicians in other walks of life. Something I started to see that was very common to cover band, session, and church musicians was the burden of sheet music and chord charts. Over the next few years I worked in retail music stores and for some pretty well-known music gear companies, did luthier work, and continued to play in various bands. And more important to the story, understanding and finding gear that solved problems. Really geeking out about why I like something and how it did the thing I like. That’s where my passion for music spawned an even deeper passion for gear. Writing, rehearsing, recording, hanging out, and drinking way too many energy drinks.īetween school, freelancing, and running a recording studio, I was able to cut my teeth and dive deep into all things audio. The band I was in at the time built a pretty legit studio in a garage where I spent the rest of my free time. Simultaneously I did freelance recording engineering work at awful hours. I wanted all of it.Īfter I graduated high school, I went to a recording trade school with the goal of becoming an audio engineer. Odd guitar heads, a ton of rack gear when that was the big thing, guitars, pedals, cabinets, even reel to reel tape machines. I was into gear at an early age and “collected” (read: hoarded) as much as I could. Like many guitarists I grew up playing in rock bands, playing way too loud in garages and storage units, and knowing my band was going to be the next big thing. But like any good story, it starts way earlier than that. Hi, my name is Rob and I started Coda Music Technologies. this is crazy enough that it actually might work.Īnd that for me was the moment I knew I was on to something, As I looked out into the crowd I realized something. Of all the venues in all the world, I walked into this one.
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