I just started my ninth year here at Moon Audio.
Six months.
And I used to work in a grocery store
literally two blocks from here. Was a regular customer at the store and
he was telling about this job his son was working at and I used to do
this type of work in Los Angeles building ribbon microphones.
I didn't even call or anything I just grabbed my resume and came right after work and
said, "hire me." (laughter)
When I started we were building a couple of cables a day, at most,
and now it's probably 20 plus a day.
Start to finish depending on the
connections it could take a half hour could take an hour.
There's probably 30 different ones.
The combinations are literally endless I mean with the
different connectors and everything it's literally infinity.
I like to start the day usually with the easier stuff, like
so it's a IEM cable or USB cable that
seems to be like (snaps) you can grab that and be done with it in 15 minutes.
The time does go by very quickly because we're just hauling all day long, you know.
We're not rushing, but we're working busy.
(Greg) He usually sings about himself.
(Darrell) What else am I supposed to sing about? Cats?
(singing) Cats are okay
(Greg - singing) Cats are fun
Get those through, and then move to the full-size headphones, and see if we
need to turn on the solder pot or not, because then you have to wait for that to heat up.
Instead of being something where you can sit down and build a cable from
start to finish you're having to do multiple steps with it throughout the day.
It's a little different every day so it's fun and then once in a while
we get requests to do something very unusual and that's always fun to do, too.
Once we build 75-foot speaker cables. So, I took up the whole office with this
long strand, 'cause they come as a pair, down the hallways, everything, just
putting TechFlex on them. So that was fun, that was the weirdest one. I don't even know
I don't even know what it's called, but I've seen Darrell make these very bizarre splits
that come back out of the quarter-inch plug into like a 2.5 plug.
And Darrel's been doing it for a while so when that kind of stuff comes in he's like
'Well, I'll do this one,' and I'm like, 'okay cool, I'll do this.' (laughter)
Coming from the background of playing music,
there's a difference between like a a five-dollar guitar cable
or $40 guitar cable. Even with my bad ears when I started listening to
some of the cables we make versus stock cables it is very apparent and easy to hear,
even for someone like me. I imagine for somebody who's into critical
listening and it must even sound better.
It's a small company everybody knows each other.
That's the thing I like about it the most.
I was actually scared when I left college
because quite a business that I could have gotten would have just been
sitting on computer all day, sitting still and chugging away a keyboard.
The powers to be here know that we can do our job and they let us do our job.
You know, not all jobs are like that. That's a very cool part of this place.
The work environment is good, I get to work with my hands, I get to use with my head
as well. Not glued to a computer all day, not glued to a chair all day.
Making sure that everything looks perfect, you know, because we do want it to look
perfect when it heads out the door. If there's a little nick, a little scratch,
even on the heat shrink, we don't want that. We just want it to look perfect so
when somebody opens it up they're excited about it. As they should be.
(Darrell) Huh? (Greg) You stole something again.
(Greg) Where's the teflon tape?
(Darrell) Did Jesus give you eyes?
I'm the jerk. Me.
I'm the jerk.
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