TC Electronic’s former head of development, Morten Lave, has been become the latest to join the Danish guitar pedal company Lunastone.
He will be the third ex-TC employee to become part of Lunastone, alongside former TC execs Allan Strand and Jesper Dalum.
Lave has served as head of development on the digital side of TC Electronic and also took lead on establishing TC Applied Technologies in Canada, leading the company as its CEO from 2003 to 2015. His new role at Lunastone will be to head the digital side of development, taking the company that until now has focused on analog overdrive circuits to new territories.
“It is a great pleasure for me to rejoin with former colleagues once again at Lunastone,” said Lave.
“We managed to achieve many great things in the past and I am confident that we can continue doing exactly that in the future with a new line of digital pedals under the Lunastone brand.
In fact, I see it as a perfect opportunity to combine Steen Grøntved’s brilliant analog design skills with my knowledge within digital audio. Further, zooming out, I see the core people at Lunastone – Steen Grøntved and my former colleagues Allan and Jesper – as something of a dream team that I am very excited to be joining.”
“Having Morten join us will be a game-changer,” added Allan Strand, Lunastone CEO. “No question, we have had greater success with our TrueOverDrive cascaded-gain-stage concept than we ever dared dream of, but obviously there is also a whole other world to take on in the digital domain and I couldn’t possibly think of anyone better suited to help us succeed there as well than Morten.”
Lunastone founder and Head of Engineering, Steen Grøntved, is also looking forward to the new collaboration and reinforcement of the team: “Getting to collaborate with Morten is a great opportunity to develop the product line and expand into the digital realm. I have lots of ideas on how to unite analog and digital circuits in musical ways to get the best from both worlds. And with Morten’s expertise in digital signal processing and years of experience from TC Electronic, I am sure we are going to make great pedals, digital as well as analog, moving forward.”
Lave will also become part of the ownership of Lunastone, investing in the company as part of the future partnership.
