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23 Aug Mullard Southport Factory Visit

Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronic components and vacuum tubes. In their heyday they had factories in Mitcham, Blackburn, Fleetwood and Southport. As part of

17 Jun Old Curiosities: The Big Green Phasing Machine

I recently discovered this old photograph of a prototype 8-stage tube phaser effect 'pedal' I built using tag-boards back in the the late 1990s. This beast had quite a few tubes in

20 May Serious Knobbage!

The Tube-Vibe and Tube Drive pedals now feature custom manufactured Dakaware knobs with brass inserts and engraved, hand-painted marker line which will not wear off over time - designed

08 May Tube Modulation Effects!

The Phaseomatic Vaccum Tube Phaser and Delta-Trem Raysistor Tremolo-Panner are getting closer to realisation. The designs are complete - we're debugging and fine-tuning these designs

10 Apr Our customers are better at manufacturing effects pedals than we are!

Just take a look at this gorgeous expression pedal. A Tube-Vibe owner contacted us a while back asking if we made an Effectrode expression pedal for the Tube-Vibe. We don't, so undeterred

05 Apr Custom Relic’d Tube-Vibe Anyone?

I'm beginning to think we've been in the effects pedal business so long that Effectrode designs are looking truely vintage, if not antique, if not ancient. This has to be the most

03 Apr Any Old Triodes

Effectrode effects pedals are built on a relatively new kind of vacuum tube technology — miniature and subminiature tubes. These glass base tubes gradually superceded tubes with

21 Mar Hot Fuzz: The Mercury is now shipping!

Mercury fuzz pedals are now shipping. We built a batch of 100, which are all spoken for, however don't worry if you didn't manage to get hold of one as we will be building another

18 Jan Mercury in Transit

'Mercury' fuzz pedal enclosures are just back from the paint shop! This latest batch of 100 pedals will feature new graphics ― a very high quality stoved epoxy silkscreen print 'Mercury'

10 Jan Oldies But Goldies

This old Vibra Chorus pedal came in for servicing just before Christmas. We've not seen one of these pedals in a while as they're quite rare - only 100 were manufactured back in 2008

16 Dec The Perfect Push for your Fender 5E3 Tweed

The Effectrode 'Fire Bottle' boost pedal is back in stock. This little all tube booster is the perfect push for any vintage tube guitar amp effectively adding an additional 30dB of

09 Oct John Verity blues trio blows roof off local village hall!

For one night only the sleepy village of Barlaston was the crossroads for lovers of authentic, smokin' blues-rock music. The little village hall, that normally finds use for more pastoral

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