ABOUT DUNELAND labs
Duneland Labs was founded in 2016 to make Bob Palmieri’s designs available to a broader market. For three decades, he had been building custom devices for dozens of clients, many whose names are instantly recognizable in the music world. The Blackpole set and Bronzeville system are the first such designs to be offered. But these two pickup offerings are just the beginning. At Duneland Labs, we have a very strong feeling that the electric guitar signal chain architecture needs a major overhaul, and we plan to be central to these essential improvements.
Our team has been responsible for a long series of systems and components that have enabled luminary musicians and recording engineers to achieve stellar levels of performance from their gear. For more than thirty years, our approach has encompassed the following procedures:
• If the appropriate solution involved currently available devices, we understood the subtle but significant properties inherent in commercial audio equipment, and could specify, calibrate, and interface such devices in an optimum form.
• If commercial gear exhibited enough of the necessary characteristics, we modified the devices for improved performance.
• If nothing on the market did the job, we designed and built custom devices.
For the next decade, we intend take the next logical step: to create a series of products that draw on the most widely applicable designs in our portfolio. Their qualities range from improvements on established types of gear to some devices that necessitate the establishment of new categories appropriate to their functions.
ABOUT founder and chief designer bob palmieri
Bob Palmieri is known for taking radically different approaches to design informed by identifying the elements of great vintage gear and the way they interact with players in both live and recorded contexts.
"Modern materials and system architectures now allow us to have desired response characteristics without the undesirable side effects common to older devices,” says Bob.