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From our trip to Namm, we brought you video of Metasonix‘ Eric Barbour introducing his G-1000 23 tube amplifier Fucking Fucker guitar amp.
Eric wasn’t demoing the amp, though. Fortunately, the guys at Big City Music have posted a video that gives you a taste of what this thing can do:

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Eric Barbour of Metasonix introduced the G-1000 Fucking Fucker (not the sucking fucker), a high-end tube amp that brings Barbour’s interest in using using vacuum tubes in original ways to amps.
Here’s what Barbour has to say about the Fucking Fucker:
There is nothing like the G-1000. Not even vaguely. It [...]

This video, Fabrication d’une lampe triode, is a very cool Mr. Rogers-style lok at how to make a vacuum tube.

Shanling’s $995 iPod dock/CD Player/Tuner & tube power amp may be stupidtacular, but check out the tubes on the thing!
Here are the details:
The Shanling MC-30 Music Center is a brushed aluminum CD player and tuner with 3 watts per channel, single ended tube amplifier section, fully remote controlled with a built in iPod [...]

Crysonic has announced the release of nXtasy V2 and availability in Native Mac OSX AU,VST (PPC /Intel Mac) and PC VST formats.
Description:
nXtasy V2 is an Analog based multi-Octave Harmonic saturation Audio DSP plug-in supporting 64-Bit internal precision. nXtasy can be used through out the entire chain of music production from tracking, live use to [...]

Continuing their series of innovative, retro-styled tube effects pedals, Effectrode has announced a limited edition of the Phaseomatic Deluxe vacuum tube phaser pedal.
That’s right - a vacuum tube-based phaser effect pedal!
This version of the PM-2.1 has an all tube signal processing path controlled by a powerful NCO (Numerically Controlled Oscillator) to drive the bulb and [...]

 

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Roth Audio has introduced what gets our vote for the coolest-looking iPod dock in the world. The Music Cocoon is a tube-amp iPod dock that also works with a CD player or any mini-jack audio device.
“We can guarantee that the amplifier will add a real warmth and dimension to the music which other amplifiers are [...]

A couple of weeks ago we brought you a sneek preview from the Winter NAMM Show of the Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher.
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 [...]

 

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