My name is Carsten Schippmann and I am an engineer of electronic. I have founded this company
named "SCHIPPMANN electronic musical instruments" in November 2005. I have studied electrotechniques from 1985 until 1994
at the "Technische Universität Berlin" in Germany. The only reason, which forced me not to study theoretical physics
and dive into the depths of elementary particles and black holes was my fascination for eletricity and my love for electronic
sounds, I discovered as I was 14 years old. During the next two years and inspiered by sounds from AC/DC, Kraftwerk,
Jean-Michael-Jarre, Yello, The Alan Parsons Project ("I robot"(wow!)), Pink Floyd and many more, I made my decision to study electrotechniques.
And this, because I understood, that it would be neccessary to dive into the world of scientific thinking to
understand all the relationships and finally to become a good electronic designer.
My passion for electronics and scientifics is the one aspect, the other one is my love for really sexy music and powerful sounds.
And, yeah, as I was 14 or 15 I heard for my very first time an analogue filter, called the mysterious "VCF" and I immediately felt
in love with that fascinating resonating THING, a love or say identification, so deep, leading directly to my roots.
It caught me until now!
And because I am a real perfectionist, I make heavy demands on my work. This is sometimes so heavy, that I am surprised by myself
or better by the results of my work. The "ebbe und flut" processor is such a THING. As I heard my filter design the first time,
I really was disappointed first, because I had totally different expectations. Slowly, I realised the unspeakable warm and clear sound.
I love clarity and I love roundness and fatness and warmth, but also roughness and expressive sounds, say, I love extremes.
I like it very much to have always the choice to set my gear in that way I want to sound it and It seems, that in
"ebbe und flut" every of these aspects were coming together.
But finally there must be one thing, where words will probably fail: IT MUST SOUNDS ELECTRIC!
Everything is vibration, everything is light, everything is sound!
Yours,
Carsten Schippmann
