David Hilowitz

For the past three weeks, I've spent an enormous amount of time playing with Bad Mood, a beautiful new effects pedal from Chase Bliss. This video documents that journey. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did making it! – Dave BAD MOOD: chasing the distorted side of ambient (YouTube)

For the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with the BASTL Kalimba, a small device that aims to bring the magic of the Kalimba to the synthesizer universe. Here’s the video! — Dave The BASTL Kalimba Synthesizer is completely unique and very cool (YouTube)

In the past three weeks, I've become completely obsessed with the Yamaha DX7. This video is the fruit of that obsession. – Dave Yamaha DX7: The Official Sound of the 80s (YouTube)

I've finally finished my 3D-printed guitar video. Enjoy! The song I made in this video: I 3D-Printed A Guitar (YouTube)

As you may have seen, I recently posted a sample library of the Gayageum, a zither/harp instrument from Korea with a beautiful, mellow sound. Well, I've finally finished the video that goes along with those samples. Hope you enjoy it! – Dave Gayageum: A gorgeous harp from Korea (YouTube)

Happy New Year! I've just uploaded a new video. It's all about a bizarre electric guitar I purchased off of Craigslist in NYC. I don't want to say too much, because I think it's more fun to watch the video and learn about the instrument in real-time along with me. Also, I finished the song from this

Hi all, A number of you have asked if I would release the rest of the piano samples I recorded in this video, so here they are! For those of you who don't know the backstory on this: this is a beat-up old upright piano that lives at a local rec center. I did a light sampling of this keyboard, record

For the past three months, I've gone deep into the world of microcassette recorders. What started as a quick experiment, me singing a few notes into my Panasonic dictaphone, quickly ballooned into a full-on obsession: I now have six microcassette recorders of varying makes and models, each of which

I've made a brand new video that's all about my latest thrift store acquisition: a Charango from South America. As usual, I don't want to give away too much information here, because I think it will be much more fun to watch it as a video. Enjoy! – Dave Charango: Armadillo Guitar of the Andes (YouTu

This is the video that I've been working on for the last two weeks. It ties in with the sample library I just uploaded. Enjoy! – Dave I finally got a fretless guitar! (YouTube)

In my latest video, I check out the Chromaplane, a beautiful and unique instrument by Passepartout Duo and KOMAelektronik. The instrument enjoyed a very successful Kickstarter last year, and now it's a full-fledged product. – Dave Chromaplane: A completely unique flat synthesizer (YouTube)

As promised, here is my latest video – it's all about the new version of the Novation Bass Station II. I had lots of fun making this one! – Dave Novation Bass Station II: A modern classic gets a beautiful redesign (YouTube)

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of traveling to Berlin to attend the annual Superbooth synthesizer festival. And about two weeks before that, I purchased an OP-1 on eBaY. If you don’t know what that is, it’s an iconic little synthesizer by Teenage Engineering. I’ve personally wanted one of these f