Bob designed and hand-built individual mixing components, including an optical compressor and his own spring reverbs, and blended them with standard consumer mic preamps, equalizers and other gear, to create a makeshift 8-channel console.

A natural experimenter, he also inventively linked two TEAC-3340 tape decks together, stacking them on top of each other. By meticulously placing nail brads into the side wood panels at the precise positions as tape guides, he was able to run a reel of double-wound tape across the headstacks on both machines simultaneously, reconnecting into a single take-up reel on the top machine. This effectively gave him an 8-track machine before 8-track decks were available in the consumer market.

Bob quickly established an enviable following, working with some extraordinary talent, both known and unknown, and earned a very respected reputation by even the bigger recording studios in town.