Niko likesGear
The tools behind the noise.
My obsession with gear started pretty young. My dad ran a computer store when I was a kid, so random hardware, loose components, half-working machines, and little tech mysteries scattered around the house felt completely normal. It wasn’t long before I started taking interest in gear of my own, usually by pressing buttons I probably shouldn’t have pressed.
That curiosity eventually expanded from computers into music gear, recording equipment, cameras, games, synths, plugins, film scores, D&D campaigns, and honestly just about anything creative that could be plugged in, modified, explored, upgraded, or experimented with. Somewhere along the way, the line between studio, workshop, and nerd cave completely disappeared.
These days, my setup is less about chasing the “perfect” rig and more about building a space that makes creativity easy to walk into. Some of the gear here is practical. Some of it is sentimental. Some of it exists because a game, a movie, an album, or a late-night creative rabbit trail convinced me it needed to exist.
Most of the songs, stories, campaigns, and weird little ideas start somewhere in this room.
PC build spec sheet
The actual machine doing the heavy lifting around here. Full plugin/mixing chain available upon request for fellow gear heads.
Old trumpet case.
An old trumpet case turned portable pedalboard. Somehow this made perfect sense at the time.
Organized Chaos.
A carefully organized collection of creative distractions. Krrsantan the Cleric painting by my good friend Sallie Kidman.