Comments on: Eric Barbour: Bringing Vacuum Tube Madness to Electronic Music

By: Inside The Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher at Synthtopia

Inside The Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher at Synthtopia — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:19:45 +0000

[...] Now, Metasonix’ Eric Barbour has released the details on the Scrotum Smasher. Here’s his explanation of how it works: The TM-7 is basically a mean, angry guitar preamp made of three vacuum tubes. Plus a feedback loop which makes the preamp unstable. There is nothing else like it. No, it does not sound like a Death By Audio pedal. No, it won’t make you sound like Steve Vai. It is unsuitable for 80s nostalgia cover bands, unless they like to do industrial versions of Duran Duran. Scrotum. [...]

By: Metasonix TX-2 Butt Probe Puts Tubes Where They Were Not Meant to Be at Synthtopia

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:14:06 +0000

[...] NAMM 2005: Metasonix introduced the latest tube-based sonic violation from Eric Barbour, the TX-2 Butt Probe. Possibly the most offensive product released at this year’s NAMM, the TX-2 promises to be “far more extreme than the famed Sherman Filterbank, and far more tube-freaky than your mother’s enema kit.” [...]

By: NAMM 07 Modular Analog Synthgasm at Synthtopia

NAMM 07 Modular Analog Synthgasm at Synthtopia — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:51:57 +0000

[...] Metasonix was displaying their S-1000 Wretch Machine, the ultimate tube synthesizer. It doesn’t have any pictures of scrotal torture or anal violation, but it’s still one of the nastiest things tube guru Eric Barbour has ever come up with. [...]

By: Metasonix Debuts The TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher at Synthtopia

Metasonix Debuts The TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher at Synthtopia — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:19:12 +0000

[...] 2007 Winter NAMM Show: Metasonix introduced the TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher, the latest lo-fi tube-based sound mangler from the mind of Eric Barbour. [...]