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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

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

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