The Electric Western Phantastron is a new all-tube synth VCO with capabilities for waveshaping and crazy effects. This will be a synth DIY project, offered as a kit. “This is a very special circuit and remind me of the old days playing with HeathKits in the basement,” says Lorin from EW. “I’m very glad that… Read More The Electric Western Phantastron Tube VCO
BigCityMusic delivers a some scrotum-smashing drums, courtesy of Metasonix. The snare is running into the Metasonix TM-6 Multimode filter and the kick drum is having its scrotum smashed by the TM-7. The Analogue Solutions SEMblance is just being a tool in the corner. The Jomox 888 provides the analog kick and snare as well as… Read More Metasonix Scrotum Smashing Drums
Softube is now shipping the Tube Delay plug-in for VST, AU and RTAS. Description: Tube Delay is a marriage between analog and digital, combining the warmth and natural compression from tubes with the features and versatility of a digital delay. The effect is designed to be perfect for fattening vocal tracks, adding slapback echo to… Read More Softube Ships Virtual Tube Delay
Bridechamber has announced the Metasonix TM-1m Waveshaper, a MOTM-formatted Metasonix TM-1. This version of the TM-1 is 2U and has attenuators for the CVs — skinnier, fully modularized, and not yellow. Having this in MOTM is nice – but I kind of like the lurid yellow of the original. It’s $400. Here’s the description of… Read More MOTM-Style Metasonix TM-1m Waveshaper
Now you know: In this video the Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher is annihilating the Analogue Solutions SEMblance monosynth. The LFO of the Moog CP-251 is modulating the Scrotum amount. All of it is running through a Fulltone Tube Tape Echo that’s pretty cranked. The first little clip is the SEMblance dry.
The video demonstrates what a 1950’s vacuum tube drum machine sounds like. The Wurlitzer SideMan was arguably the world’s first drum machine. (It depends on whether you count the Chamberlin Rhythmate, which was introduced some years earlier, but featured tape loops instead of electronically generated drum sounds.) It still sounds pretty cool, don’t you think?
From our trip to Namm, we brought you video of Metasonix‘ Eric Barbour introducing his G-1000 23 tube amplifier Fucking Fucker guitar amp. Eric wasn’t demoing the amp, though. Fortunately, the guys at Big City Music have posted a video that gives you a taste of what this thing can do:
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Eric Barbour of Metasonix introduced the G-1000 Fucking Fucker (not the sucking fucker), a high-end tube amp that brings Barbour’s interest in using using vacuum tubes in original ways to amps. Here’s what Barbour has to say about the Fucking Fucker: There is nothing like the G-1000. Not even… Read More The Fucking Fucker
This video, Fabrication d’une lampe triode, is a very cool Mr. Rogers-style lok at how to make a vacuum tube.
Shanling’s $995 iPod dock/CD Player/Tuner & tube power amp may be stupidtacular, but check out the tubes on the thing! Here are the details: The Shanling MC-30 Music Center is a brushed aluminum CD player and tuner with 3 watts per channel, single ended tube amplifier section, fully remote controlled with a built in iPod… Read More iPod Dock Sports Four Vacuum Tubes
