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Todella hyvän keksinnön kohdalla ajattelee usein ”Tämän olisin voinut keksiä itsekin!” Totuus on kuitenkin, että neronleimaus on vasta valmiin tuotteen alkupiste, josta voi olla suhteellisen pitkä matka maaliin. Täytyy olla keksijän draivi ja pitkäjänteisyys, että jaksaa hioa alkuperäisen idean lopulliseen muotoonsa. Suomalainen kitaristi ja keksijä Markku Pietinen oli jo pidemmän aikaa miettinyt, että perinteiselle kitarakaapille... Continue Reading →

The sound quality, sound dispersion and power handling of the bass-TOOB are nothing short of impressive. For the types of bands and gigs it has been designed for, you'd be hard pressed to find a better ultra-compact solution than the 12B.

Some of the coolest inventions tend to make you go "Geez, this is so obvious! Why didn't I think of this?" The truth is, though, that the basic idea usually is only the first impetus for going on an exploratory journey. You have to have the inventor's drive and perseverance to grab the idea by its throat, and hold it there for as long as it takes to hew and mould it into its final shape. Finnish guitarist/inventor Markku Pietinen had become increasingly frustrated by the weight and size of traditional speaker cabinets for guitar. Modern technology – like Class D power amps – has lead to ever smaller amplifier sizes, yet cabinets were still cumbersome and angular.

Puuverstas Änäkäinen's Rumble 1 x 12 -cabinet (prices in Finland start around 580 €) offers a few fresh ideas on how to come up with a cracking guitar tone. The fathers of the Rumble-concept are cabinet maker Kari Änäkäinen (try saying: Curry ANNA-kay-nun), who is also gigging as a guitarist and bassist, and Kuusankoski's very own tube amp guru, Triodipaja's proprietor Lassi Ukkonen (LUSS-cee OO-cow-nun). The guys hit upon the basic idea for the Rumble cabinet, when Kari asked Lassi to calculate the correct cubic content for a lightweight bass cabinet he was building for himself. The bass cabinet turned out very well and set the duo on the path to coming up with the Rumble.