NAMM 2005: Metasonix introduced the latest tube-based sonic violation from Eric Barbour, the TX-2 Butt Probe. Possibly the most offensive product released at this year’s NAMM, the TX-2 promises to be “far more extreme than the famed Sherman Filterbank, and far more tube-freaky than your mother’s enema kit.” The Metasonix TX-2 is made with three… Read More Metasonix TX-2 Butt Probe Puts Tubes Where They Were Not Meant to Be
Eric Barbour is a world authority on using vacuum-tubes in audio devices, and is the first person to apply the ideas pioneered with early synthesizers to tube-based devices. His company, Metasonix, makes tube-based synthesizer modules that are completely unique. Barbour describes his modules as brain destroying, meaty, bizarre, crude, nasty, powerful and evil. He warns… Read More Eric Barbour: Bringing Vacuum Tube Madness to Electronic Music
Metasonix makes tube-based analog synthesizer components. They can be used with most analog synthesizers, and can also be used as guitar effects boxes. Metasonix’s products are built with all-tube signal paths. As a result, they offer sounds and effects that are not available using traditional analog equipment or software plug-ins. According to Metasonix, the designs… Read More Metasonix
