Korg has created a new vacuum tube synthesiser in the form of the Korg Volca Nubass offering a powerful bass synthesiser with the sound source based around a vacuum tube oscillator. “The acid bass ...

Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago. Yet there have been some lingering vacuum tube-based products in production. Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago.

Tagged D-81629, serial number 36526. Uses two each Western Electric 101 and 104D tubes. Oscillator housed in a wooden case with controls for filament voltage and output levels on the front panel.

In our surface-mount age, it’s easy to be jaded about miniaturization. We pretty much expect every circuit to be dimensionally optimized, something that’s easy to do when SMDs that rival grains of ...

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the big thing these days, and why not? A single computer can get rid of a room full of boat anchors, and give you better signal discrimination than all but the best kit ...