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12 Mar A window through time – Sylvania’s first radio tube factory

From this small factory at Emporium, Pa. the first Sylvania radio tubes were shipped on Thanksgiving Eve, 1924. It was built in 1906, by Sylvania’s parent company, the Novelty Incandescent

09 Mar But being as this is a 7550 dual triode, the most powerful subminiature tube in the world…

…and would blow your speaker cones clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? Well, that's exactly what I was asking myself when I

20 Dec Our Leveling Amplifier is one of “Best Guitar Effects” pedals of the Year!

Our new Leveling Amplifier has been selected by "Best Guitar Effects" as one of their pedals of the year. This is real honour as these guys really do know their stuff when it comes

16 Dec Merry Christmas!

We'd like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all the guitarists, sound engineers and musicians that have supported us. Thank you for your trust and belief

28 Nov Secrets of the Tube Alchemists

[The photograph above shows a jar of barium carbonate and pure nickel ingots—the essential ingredients required to make a tube] Well not so much alchemy as chemistry, and physics

27 Nov Blackbird Nominated best Drive Effects Gear of the Year Awards

We're delighted that 'Guitarist' magazine have picked the Blackbird vacuum tube preamp for The Best Drive Effects Category. They said, "It's exceptionally quiet with almost inaudible

22 Nov Five Fast Facts About the PC-2A Compressor

The PC-2A is the 'go-to' compressor for guitarists Adrian Legg and David Gilmour. In fact Adrian and David's tech (the other Phil Taylor) were involved in audio testing the PC-2A in

18 Nov How tubes work… in plain English

The purpose to this short post is to explain how a vacuum tube (electronic valve) works in no nonsense, straightforward terms. Here goes… Now, we all understand how a flashlight

04 Nov What? Mullard Tubes made in India

Mullard's empire had a long and mighty reach. Not only did they build advanced tube manufacturing facilities in Blackburn, Southport, Mitcham in Great Britain, but also set up tube

28 Oct Project ‘X’ a.k.a. the Ultimate Leveling Amplifier… in a Pedal!

We've secretly been developing a vacuum tube leveling amplifier pedal which is now in production. The driving force behind this project has been customer requests for a four knob version

30 Sep Tubes and Guitar Tone – It’s All In The Cathode

The solid-body guitar, magnetic pickup, loudspeaker, output transformer and electron tube are the stuff of rock 'n' roll and rock music—without these cornerstones guitar tone as

24 Aug Tubes: The Old Verses the New

As an electric guitarist, it's probably a safe bet to assume you're constantly seeking that edge that will give you the ultimate tone—this kind of OCD seems to go with territory

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