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BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes
Boing Boing Gadgets — After we noticed the Voice Box FX pedal from Electro-Harmonix, I noticed that they were based in Long Island City, just a short train ride away from my place in Brooklyn. Since I'm getting ready to move to Oregon—Hello, Eugene!—I figured I ought to get up there and check out one of the last family-owned music gear companies in America. Turns out that EHX also manufacturers a huge percentage of the world's vacuum tubes in its factory in Russia, which are then sent back to ...

Inside the Electro-Harmonix factory
CrunchGear — Joel at BBG got some great footage of the Electro-Harmonix factory, makers of the Voice Box that we showed you a few days ago. Apparently this little Mom and Pop in Long Island City makes most of the vacuum tubes for the world; an amazing feat in today’s transistorized world. Great stuff from a great company.

BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes
Boing Boing — Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Joel introduces today's episode of Boing Boing Video: After we noticed the Voice Box FX pedal from Electro-Harmonix, I noticed that they were based in Long Island City, just a short train ride away from my place in Brooklyn. Since I'm getting ready to move to Oregon—Hello, Eugene!—I figured I ought to get up there and check out one of the last family-owned music gear companies in America. Turns out that EHX also manufacturers a huge ...

A look inside the Electro-Harmonix factory ...
MAKE Magazine — Joel Johnson of BoingBoing TV gives us a peek into what goes on behind the curtain at the Electro-Harmonix sonic factory in NYC. Quite awesome to see how very hands-on and down-to-earth their staff and production process is. Keeping it this real is likely the only way one could maintain a rep for such creative and quality work - and a wall of vacuum tubes doesn't hurt either. Hrrrmm ... now I got me a hankerin' for some effects-building. - BoingBoing TV visits the EHX factory in NYC Read ...

Inside Electro-Harmonix, Makers of Fine Big Muffs, Vacuum Tubes and More [Video]
Gizmodo — Our buddy Joel from BBG took a field trip to Electro-Harmonix's main lab and test facilities, where they design their legendary music effects pedals and maintain the world's largest vacuum tube business. Sure there isn't a whole lot of mainstream demand for vacuum tubes these days, what with those fancy solid state electronics everybody's been talking about, but in certain audiophile circles, nothing beats the clean boost of a tube amp. Electro-Harmonix manufacturers 2/3 of the world's new vacuum ...