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TUBE-TECH Tube based Equipment for Recording Studios and Live Sound

TUBE-TECH was started 1985 in Hvidovre, Denmark LYDKRAFT is the name of the Company behind TUBE-TECH. ( Lydkraft is Danish for Sound power.) More than 15.000 Tube-Tech Units have been shipped from Lydkraft, Denmark since 1985. Lydkraft was founded in Denmark in1977 by electronic engineer John G.Petersen and two partners. The company originally served the PA market but turned away from this area of business in 1980 when John Petersen took over the company and focused his efforts towards the design, development and manufacturing of direct boxes, mixing desks and speaker systems. John G.Petersen was in 1969 educated as an electronics engineer at Danish Post and Telegraph and worked from 1972 for the Danish Broadcasting Company as maintenance engineer on a host of different applications. He was factory trained at Solid State Logic, EMT, Studer, Sony, Neumann, NTP and Lyrec and designed the tape recorder playback/recording amps for Lyrec tape recorders. When not toiling over a hot soldering iron, he collects technical equipment like cutting lathes, tape recorders, classic studio equipment,old radios, wireless equipment, gramophones, phonographs and related literature and plays bass guitar in his spare time. Besides his many other activities, John also got involved in a heavy console-refurbishing project in 1980: The old console from Workhouse Studios. During the early eighties, John came across several classic tube processors such as the Pultec equalizers, and Teletronics compressor LA2A. John liked the high quality and the simplicity of these units and started working his own tube designs. Due to decreasing sound quality from modern studio consoles, the demand for vintage high quality tube gear was increasing and John decided to start development of his own units in 1984. John G.Petersen''s facination of classic high-quality analog sound made him start designing the TUBE-TECH line of all-tube signal processing equipment. The first tube-based unit bearing the Tube-Tech name, Program Equalizer PE 1A shipped in 1985. Production of the first TUBE-TECH unit took place in Johns private garage. The PE1A Program EQand Midrange EQ ME1A was almost a direct copy of the Pultec units, since John wanted this high quality design to be available to a bigger group of studio customers. After these two units followed the whole line line of "classic" TUBE-TECH units, all designed from the ground up by John G. Petersen. Full list of Tube-Tech products from 1985 to 2011: 1985: PE1A       Program equalizer. Hard wired. 1986: PE 1B     Program Equalizer, extended high frequency boost 1987: ME 1A     Pultec based midrange passive Tube Equalizer 1987: CL 1A      Opto "LA2A type" Compressor. Hard wired. 1987: MP 1A     Two Channel very smooth Mic Pre and DI 1991: PA 6         Stereo Headphone amplifier 1991: CL 1B      Equal to CL1A but featuring Circuit Boards 1991: PE 1C      Equal to PE1B but featuring Circuit Boards 1991: ME 1B      Equal to ME1A but featuring Circuit Boards 1993: LCA 2B   Stereo Compressor (With a tube as VCA). 1995: EQ 1A     High Performance Active super musical Parametric Tube Equalizer 1997: MEC 1A  Three in One High End Recording Channel. 1998: CL 2A     Two Channel Opto Tube Compressor 2000: SMC 2B   The World's first Tube Multiband Compressor. 2004: MMC 1A  Recording channel featuring Multiband Compression 2004: SSA 2A   High end Tube summing Amp 2005: SSA 2B    Equal to SSA2A but featuring switchable mono inputs. 2008: RM 8       Table top Frame for Tube RM Modules 2008: PM 1A     Mic Pre and DI module 2008: CM 1A     Opto Compressor module 2008: EM 1A     Program Equalizer Module 2009: RM 2       TUBE-BOX Two Slot Frame for Tube RM modules The TUBE-TECH units have over the years gained a fantastic reputation in the audio business. The CL1B compressor has become a world standard and the SMC2B has gained a very high reputation in the audio business. Selected TUBE-TECH Users:

Multi Grammy Award winner Al Schmitt: (Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Toto, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney) Grammy winner Joe Chiccarelli: (Elton John, Beck, U2, Tori Amos, Counting Crows, Offspring) Engineer Russ Long: (Sixpence None The Richer, Wilco, Dolly Parton, Allison Moorer) Producer-engineer Tony Shepperd: (Elton John, Madonna, Kenny Loggins, Barbra Streisand, Lionel Richie, and Whitney Houston), Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith,   ZZ Top,  Steve Miller,  Bjørk., T Pain, John Hiatt.