Fender, Groove Tubes Announce Joint Agreement

January 29, 1998 -- Fender Amplifiers and Groove Tubes announce that as of January 1, 1998, all Fender tube amps are now shipped from the Fender factories with matched sets of Fender Groove Tubes installed as original equipment.

Groove Tubes was founded in 1979 by Aspen Pittman on the premise that most tubes used in guitar amps were originally designed for radios and other non-musical applications. Groove Tubes personnel analyze, sort, and match tubes based on computerized parameters that predict a tube's musicality and reliability, as well as its frequency response, distortion characteristics, and power ratings. Pittman, the company's president, is the author of the best-selling sourcebook, The Tube Amp Book.

"Certainly, over the years, a lion's share of my tubes have been installed into Fender amplifiers by players looking for a way to maximize performance and tone," says Pittman. "Now that Fenders are being factory equipped with Groove Tubes, what was previously an after-market enhancement comes straight from the Fender factories. The real winners are the players."

For more information, visit their web site at www.fender.com.


Recent Fender Headlines

[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Advertisement

Latest Headlines

Alfred Releases New Action-Packed Movie Titles for Piano

Ring in the Holidays with Alfred's New Christmas Songbooks for Guitar TAB and Piano/Vocal/Chords

M & D International and C & J Distributing Join Forces to Expand Hutchins Guitars in the U.S.

Virtuasonic Releases Choir Breath for Kontakt

The Big Fattie Guitar Pick by V-Picks

Kaces Introduces GRAFIX Mexican Flag Electric Guitar Case

Alfred Releases New Guitar TAB Series: Best Guitar Songbook

TC Electronic Introduces PowerCore 6000, Brings System 6000 Plug-ins to DAWs

More headlines

Features

119th AES

Summer NAMM 2005

Winter NAMM 2005

Musikmesse 2005

117th AES

Summer NAMM 2004

Musikmesse 2004

Winter NAMM 2004

HTML Text



Winter NAMM '98 Coverage provided by Harmony Central®
Email: webmaster@harmony-central.com
Copyright © 1998-2005 Harmony Central, Inc. All rights reserved.