Tube-Tech is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year! Since 1985, the company has shipped more than 15,000 preamps, EQs, compressors, and other gear from their headquarters in Denmark.
After 25 years in business, Tube-Tech president John G. Petersen continues to craft their equipment with simple, elegant circuitry using only premium-grade components. From the start, Petersen designed Tube-Tech gear using only vacuum tubes in the active signal path and only transformers on the inputs and outputs.
Before Tube-Tech, Petersen received a degree in electrical engineering from Danish Post and Telegraph and took a job in 1972 at the Danish Broadcasting Company (DBC). In his role as maintenance engineer, he received factory training at SSL, EMT, Studer, Sony, Neumann, and more. His genius for inspecting, understanding, and repairing audio circuits paved the way for Tube-Tech.
A Denmark-based retailer suggested that it would buy twenty units, if Petersen could deliver a sonic replica of the Pultec EQP-1A. Instead, he built thirty, and sent a few of the remaining stock to a distributor in New York. For five years, Petersen continued worked out of his garage during off hours, still keeping his day job at DBC.
Around 1990, Petersen shed his DBC job, moved out of the garage, and pursued Tube-Tech full time. In the two decades that followed, Petersen has continued to design modern-day classics.
Congratulations to our friends at Tube-Tech, many happy returns!
