Worms, Germany (November 20, 2023) — Established in 1993 as a guitar amp restore store in Worms, Germany, Tube Amp Physician has grown to be a world-leading firm offering electron tubes in addition to many different components for each musical instrument and residential hi-fi purposes. If no one else has it, chances are high they do. Because the guitar amp world is near our hearts at Celestion, we’re privileged to have the ability to spend time talking about enterprise and music with TAD founder Andreas Hecke.
A musician, Andreas Hecke tells us that his enterprise was based out of a private want for components and his enterprise grew from there. “No person was in a position to repair my 1955 Fender Bassman amp correctly. So, that induced me to wish to discover ways to repair amps myself. It turned out that discovering the right components right here in Germany was a problem again within the late Nineteen Eighties.” he says. “So, I sourced them from U.S. firms and imported them. It shortly turned out that there was a sure demand for correct components, so I began to make a enterprise out of this. The thought was to finance my learning on the College of Mannheim. And the enterprise grew shortly.”
And his firm’s beginnings as a restore store helped them to later produce high quality merchandise.
“We have been working a restore store for a few years and picked up the expertise of the worst-case situations, since we largely obtained amps that had a problem,” he says. “We provided the expertise we collected in years of fixing tube amplifiers to R&D engineers at amp producers and we used it to enhance high quality at our tube manufacturing companions in addition to our personal TAD tube testing. It’s kind of an ideal circle — which appears distinctive in our enterprise.”
And he credit the important thing to his firm’s success with listening to his shoppers’ wants and implementing enhancements in manufacturing, mixed with ardour for the merchandise.
“One level is the actual fact I did perceive and join the totally different key folks within the firm. However that is useful typically in any type of enterprise. Particular to TAD, it’s the love and keenness for the product. We speak to the R&D engineers of guitar amplifiers and find out about their necessities. Then we use this information to set off enhancements on the manufacturing websites for the tubes themselves.”
Hecke websites the TAD REDBASE™ tube sequence as his firm’s essential innovation.
“Many micro-innovations have been realized to enhance tube manufacturing processes. Right this moment we’ve got the actually failure-free TAD 6L6GCM, 6L6WGC, 6V6GT, EL34, EL84, KT88 and GZ34 REDBASE™ tubes in ongoing manufacturing,” provides Hecke. “And Extra traditional tube varieties together with a 6550A, 12BH7, 12AT7/ECC81 and 12AX7/ECC83 at the moment are very near being prepared for quantity manufacturing.”
And the accomplishment that he’s most pleased with?
“Organising an organization and a model recognized in our enterprise worldwide,” says Hecke. “And that lots of our staff have labored with us for a very long time — 10, 15, 20, and even 25 years! That exhibits me we’re doing one thing proper.”
Click on right here to learn the complete interview with Andreas Hecke on the Celestion Speakerworld weblog
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