Monday, March 8th, 2010
Guitar amplifiers have come a long way since the early days of electric guitars. However, innovations in technology may not have made the impact on the industry that was expected. Vintage equipment such as tube amps still reign as the royalty of the industry. Tube amps still provide the warmest sound with the highest quality. These amps are the tried-and-true favorites of most electric guitar playing musicians on Earth today. However, solid-state technology has always come in as a close second in the contest of guitar tube amp vs. solid-state.
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Electro-Harmonix has been making electronic sound processors and guitar effect pedals since 1968 when the company was founded by Mike Matthews in NYC. But another side of Electro-Harmonix is their vacuum tube manufacturing.
Electro-Harmonix, one of the largest manufacturer and distributor of vacuum tubes in the world, saved the vacuum tube from eventual extinction when in 1998 they purchased ExpoPul, a Russian factory located in Saratov, Russia. The ExpoPul factory accounts for two-thirds of the world’s production of vacuum tubes and in 2006 Samara Business World sued Electro-Harmonix in a Russian court to try and grab control of the factory. Full Story…
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Tags: electro-harmonix, expopul, mike matthews, vacuum tubes
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