Metasonix is an audio equipment manufacturer based in Lakeport, California. Founded by Eric Barbour in 1998, it specializes in vacuum tube equipment. [1]
Eli Crews, writing in Electronic Musician in 2008, commented that "Eric Barbour of Metasonix has a colorful approach to design, employing an all-tube audio path in his quest for unusual and sonically extreme products." [2]
Barbour worked as an applications engineer for the Russian vacuum tube manufacturer Svetlana Electron Devices. [3] [4] He was a staff editor and co-founder of Vacuum Tube Valley magazine [1] and contributed to Glass Audio magazine. [3] [5]
Metasonix produces audio effects and synthesizers using atypical vintage vacuum tubes. Metasonix modules are considered high-end in pricing and consume large amounts of power to create highly distorted sounds. [6] Its products include the TM-7 "Scrotum Smasher", [7] the TM-3 voltage-controlled oscillator, [8] the TM-6 filter, [9] the TX-1 "Agonizer", [10] [11] the TX-2 "Butt Probe", [12] the TS-21 waveshaper, [13] the S-1000 Wretch Machine, [14] and the G-1000 Fucking Fucker guitar amplifier. [15] Metasonix also sells a drum machine based on vacuum tubes, the D-2000. [6]
The Metasonix TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher features control options based on distortion and power with intentionally vulgar names: Smash, Scrotum, Double Scrotum, Mega Scrotum, and Scrotum Up Ya Ass. [16] Audio Geek said of it, "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." [17]
Metasonix is an audio equipment manufacturer based in Lakeport, California. Founded by Eric Barbour in 1998, it specializes in vacuum tube equipment. [1]
Eli Crews, writing in Electronic Musician in 2008, commented that "Eric Barbour of Metasonix has a colorful approach to design, employing an all-tube audio path in his quest for unusual and sonically extreme products." [2]
Barbour worked as an applications engineer for the Russian vacuum tube manufacturer Svetlana Electron Devices. [3] [4] He was a staff editor and co-founder of Vacuum Tube Valley magazine [1] and contributed to Glass Audio magazine. [3] [5]
Metasonix produces audio effects and synthesizers using atypical vintage vacuum tubes. Metasonix modules are considered high-end in pricing and consume large amounts of power to create highly distorted sounds. [6] Its products include the TM-7 "Scrotum Smasher", [7] the TM-3 voltage-controlled oscillator, [8] the TM-6 filter, [9] the TX-1 "Agonizer", [10] [11] the TX-2 "Butt Probe", [12] the TS-21 waveshaper, [13] the S-1000 Wretch Machine, [14] and the G-1000 Fucking Fucker guitar amplifier. [15] Metasonix also sells a drum machine based on vacuum tubes, the D-2000. [6]
The Metasonix TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher features control options based on distortion and power with intentionally vulgar names: Smash, Scrotum, Double Scrotum, Mega Scrotum, and Scrotum Up Ya Ass. [16] Audio Geek said of it, "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." [17]