Currently Studying · Future Engineer

Toby
Cho

Audio Engineer in the Making

I'm a student with my sights set on the recording studio. Between lectures, I shoot on film, collect vintage guitars, and spend way too many late nights in makeshift home studios chasing the perfect sound. This is where all of it lives.

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Toby Cho
Student · Audio Engineer · Photographer
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Visual Work

Through the Lens

Moments captured on both film and digital — each frame a deliberate choice.

Golden Hour, Eastside
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Kodak UltraMax 400 · 35mm
Night at Japan

Shot during the school's graduation trip to Osaks, Japan, I captured the beauty of nightscape in Japan. Shot on a Minox 35 AL camera, I shot this with hope in my mind

Late Night Transit
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Kodak UltraMax 400 · 35mm
Power of the Dawn's Spirits

Shot during my yearly visit to my favorite fingerstyle artist Sungha Jung's concert, I did not expect this outcome from my little Minox 35 AL camera. This was not long after I got this camera, so I can say I was impressed.

Studio Session #4
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Kodak ColorPlus 200 · 35mm
Tears Stream, Down Your Face

This was shot at the Coldplay's Korean concert in 2025. I was extremely tired and wanted to go home quick, as I went near the exit towards the end of the show, where this shot was taken in my little Minox 35 AL camera.

Forest Road, November
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Kodak E100D · 35mm
In Real Life

Shot on my first trip to Tokyo, Japan, this photograph resembles how the current society looks. It shows a elderly man on a work suit going to a different direction from the bus which also takes people to work.

Market, Early Morning
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Fujifilm Provia 100F · 120 6*6
The Last and The First

This photograph was shot before the end of production of the provia film. I shot this on my at-the-time fresh RicohFlex Dia, which I bought on the Japan trip I was leaving from on the photograph. I like this photo very much as it is a positive film

Rooftop, Dusk
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Fujifilm Velvia 50 · 35mm
Night of the Day

This photograph was shot on an ISO 50 film which is very dark in film standards. Thats why as the subway is dark, the overall photograph was exposed long, which made a trail of the person going through the frame.

Digital Photo 1
CameraCanon 6D
Lens35mm f/1.8
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Lens50mm f/1.4
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Lens85mm f/1.8
ISO1600
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Lens24mm f/2.8
ISO200
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CameraCanon 6D
Lens70-200mm f/4
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CameraCanon 6D
Lens35mm f/1.8
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The Collection

Six Strings & Counting

Every guitar has a story. This one gets the spotlight.

Martin Guitar
Your Guitar
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1959 ES-335
Gibson · Cherry Red
  • BodySemi-hollow maple
  • NeckMahogany, slim taper
  • PickupsPAF Humbuckers
  • Scale24.75"
  • FinishNitrocellulose lacquer
  • YearReissue · 2019
The one that started everything.

I picked this up from a small shop in the city that smelled like wood shavings and old amp tubes. I wasn't looking for a semi-hollow — I thought I was a Telecaster person. But the moment I plugged this into a clean Vox and played a single chord, something clicked that hadn't clicked before.

The ES-335 sits at the crossroads of jazz warmth and rock grit in a way that nothing else does. It feeds back beautifully at volume. It whispers when you need it to. Every recording session I've done since has started with this guitar plugged in first, regardless of whether it ends up in the final mix.

Change the spec details, guitar model, and description above to match your actual collection. This page is designed to give your favourite guitar the centrepiece moment it deserves.

Martin Guitar
Your Guitar
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1959 ES-335
Gibson · Cherry Red
  • BodySemi-hollow maple
  • NeckMahogany, slim taper
  • PickupsPAF Humbuckers
  • Scale24.75"
  • FinishNitrocellulose lacquer
  • YearReissue · 2019
The one that started everything.

I picked this up from a small shop in the city that smelled like wood shavings and old amp tubes. I wasn't looking for a semi-hollow — I thought I was a Telecaster person. But the moment I plugged this into a clean Vox and played a single chord, something clicked that hadn't clicked before.

The ES-335 sits at the crossroads of jazz warmth and rock grit in a way that nothing else does. It feeds back beautifully at volume. It whispers when you need it to. Every recording session I've done since has started with this guitar plugged in first, regardless of whether it ends up in the final mix.

Change the spec details, guitar model, and description above to match your actual collection. This page is designed to give your favourite guitar the centrepiece moment it deserves.

Martin Guitar
Your Guitar
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1959 ES-335
Gibson · Cherry Red
  • BodySemi-hollow maple
  • NeckMahogany, slim taper
  • PickupsPAF Humbuckers
  • Scale24.75"
  • FinishNitrocellulose lacquer
  • YearReissue · 2019
The one that started everything.

I picked this up from a small shop in the city that smelled like wood shavings and old amp tubes. I wasn't looking for a semi-hollow — I thought I was a Telecaster person. But the moment I plugged this into a clean Vox and played a single chord, something clicked that hadn't clicked before.

The ES-335 sits at the crossroads of jazz warmth and rock grit in a way that nothing else does. It feeds back beautifully at volume. It whispers when you need it to. Every recording session I've done since has started with this guitar plugged in first, regardless of whether it ends up in the final mix.

Change the spec details, guitar model, and description above to match your actual collection. This page is designed to give your favourite guitar the centrepiece moment it deserves.

Audio Work

Ears First, Always

Recordings, mixes, and experiments from someone who can't stop chasing the perfect sound.

"I don't just want to work in audio — I need to. It's the only thing I've ever been obsessed with."

I'm a student, which means I spend most of my days in lectures and most of my nights in headphones. I've been building home recording setups since I was sixteen, pulling apart cheap interfaces to understand why they colour the sound the way they do, rewiring old condenser mics that nobody else wanted.

Every mix I make is a desperate attempt to get closer to the thing I hear in my head. I study the cardioid patterns of microphones the way some people study scripture. I lose hours to plugin chains and DAW routing. I genuinely, unashamedly, cannot imagine doing anything else.

The work below is raw and honest. It represents where I am right now — not where I'm going. But the trajectory is clear, and the obsession isn't going anywhere.

Currently Studying Audio Engineering
Original Mix · 2024
Midnight Tape — Demo Session

A rough demo recorded entirely on two SM58s and whatever acoustic treatment I could tape to the walls. The point wasn't perfection. The point was capturing the room and the moment honestly.

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Arrangement Study · 2024
Reverb Architecture — An Experiment

This started as an assignment to study reverb tails and turned into something I actually love. Four layers of room sound stacked and automated. No dry signal anywhere in the final mix.

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Live Recording · 2025
Guitar & Tape — Room Session

Recorded live in one take to a Tascam 4-track. The ES-335 into a clean Fender, mic'd with a Shure KSM32. No overdubs, no edits. Just the room doing what it does at 1am when everything's finally quiet.