Ruokangas Valvebucker – the first ever tube-driven guitar pickup

Netahnpaul8628 Jan, 2021Entertainment

Hailing from Finland, Ruokangas has announced the Valvebucker, which the company reckons is the first ever tube-driven electric guitar pickup. Will it burn your fingers or just produce some smokin� tone? Here�s the basic idea: put a valve inside a pickup loaded on a guitar. But can this even work? Well, it has a tube-amplified active preamp circuit utilising triode and pentode NOS valves. That�s then powered by an XLR cable running to an external 12V AC power supply in the floor. Ruokangas says the Valvebucker uses very low voltages and makes use of �sweet spots� found outside typical operational points of vacuum tubes.