Tube Equipment

Using a common 4 channel Focusrite USB home recording interface and the DSP power of LabVIEW, I was able to create a 24 bit Audio Analyzer to rival professional products at a fraction of the cost. I use this analyzer every day to create and refine audio designs. It delivers a full report of all the measurements in HTML

During the production of the Tube Equipment Corporation SR 71 Compressor, it became crucial to obtain large quantities of the main Remote Cutoff gain reduction tubes and hand select them for best THD and plate curve matching. Even with a Tektronix curve tracer, doing this manually was terribly inefficient so I designed an automated tube curve tracer of my own which would select batches of 8 tubes at a time for one unit. Automating the process cut this task time down dramatically.

Buoyed by the results of the massive SR 71 Tube Compressor and also looking to go beyond old 60's designs, I tried to embark out on my own and do something new in the tube audio recording gear market. That something was to take my basic circuit from the previous product and automate it using motorized controls and a Microcontroller to manage things. WiFi remote control and storage of preferred settings made it easy to recall previous sessions, a requirement in the modern studio.