Let’s talk about SPL’s Channel One MK 3, which is a fantastic preamp to record bass drums and guitar and of course vocals. My ...

The legendary designer is famed for founding Matchless and his early Bad Cat builds –now he’s returned to the boutique firm ...

Countless classic recordings have been blessed with the hot tube mojo of a 1964 black-panel Fender Champ and its descendants, and it’s a sound that remains a studio superpower to this day ...

a larger and easier to use control panel and — most significantly — the addition of a real subminiature military spec dual-triode vacuum tube in the preamp that feeds the delay circuit. Before we dig ...

[Justin Scott]’s tube preamplifier is a great example, with its novel use of a pair of Nixie tubes to indicate the volume to which it has been set. The audio side of the preamp comes courtesy of ...

So often when we read of a modification on a classic piece of tube electronics we prepare ... to allow its use as a stand-alone microphone preamplifier he also performs an extremely sympathetic ...

Unfortunately, Gibson evolved the Falcon into the Crestline range, and it’s been downhill for the company’s amps ever since. As it happens, the vintage Falcon line has a lot o ...