Filip Pietruszewski started Capital City Transistor and Valve in Montreal out of his apartment, building and modifying pedals, guitars, and synthesizers for local musicians. Since then he's opened up shop in Fernwood, designing and manufacturing synthesizers, pedals, drone machines and lighting rigs. He uses advanced techniques including microsoldering and firmware development along with CAM-based tools like 3d printers, laser cutters, and CNC. He experiments with bringing analog and digital principles together, while putting an emphasis on human interaction with his creations. His regular customers include Trent Reznor, Men Without Hats, Astrocolor, and Dark Sparkler.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
We acknowledge the generous support of our partners and funders:
