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You're playing a gig in your local bar. The stage is the size of a postage stamp and the drummer is shoe-horned in right behind you—he's playing too loud—nothing new there. But hey, none of that matters

16 Dec Have a Merry Christmas

I hope you folks are doing okay out there. With the madness and rampant commercialism of Black Friday behind us, we can now look forward with joy to the madness and rampant commercialism of Christmas.

09 Jan The History of Vibrato

There's more to electronic vibrato than you can possibly imagine. I found that out whilst attempting to write a "short" history on this marvellous pitch detuning effect. It's an epic saga spanning the

12 Dec The Thermionic Zone

Hope you guys are doing alright out there. It's cold, dark, and wet outside here at Effectrode HQ. The rain is lashing against the windowpanes and storm is blowing: in a word, miserable. Yes, it's that

27 Mar Designing the Impossible

Here at Effectrode we build the machines. We build the machines that enable guitarists discover that elusive guitar tone they've always dreamt of, so they can break free and truly soar to make their music.

24 Jan Brimarized Blackbirds Are Flying!

We have a limited stock of British made Brimar ECC83 tubes, which are now being installed into just five (5) 'Blackbird' preamps. The Blackbird is built like a piece of state-of-the-art, 1960s, cold war,

14 Dec Merry Effectsmas!

I don't know where all the time goes: This year has vaporized, like the cathode coating on cheap vacuum tube, into nothingness. But we've not been sitting idle in our little workshop. We've been busily

16 Nov The Black Strat Book 4th Edition!

The latest edition of Phil Taylor's 'The Black Strat' book is now on sale. This substantial, fourth edition contains an additional fifty pages of new material and includes the years between 2008 and 2017

01 Jun Get Real… Tube Tone

Remember when rock was young? When tape echoes utilised real tape loops; when spring reverbs had real springs; when photo-optical tremolos possessed real photocells; and when guitar amps had real tubes

23 May Roll Your Own Tone

It has been said that the 12AX7 tube is the cornerstone of guitar tone. This glowing glass bottle can be found in the heart of practically every guitar amp ever made from the 1950s onwards—it's what

22 Mar Paint It Black

There are vintage vacuum tubes that possess beautifully shaped and coloured black plates like the one pictured above. They're highly prized by tone hounds and can command stratospheric prices. Could this

15 Mar Cool Tones?

As an company working in the highly improbable trade of making vacuum tube “effectification” for electric guitar, the boffins at Effectrode have a burning interest in anything that might help improve

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