Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The oldest rhythm maker in town?
Long before EDM, House and when rock was still something you kicked down the road, Wurlitzer created the first commercially available drum machine.
The mechanics are wild, the amplifier and drum voices are all valve/tube and it’s not something you’d much want to take to a gig, but it sounds so good.
It’ll let you waltz, tango and do the Cha Cha Cha, but predating Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, there is no rock setting nor even rock’n’roll.
Made when machines were built to last, it’s all working bar a few minor mechanical fixes: how many beatboxes made today will still be going strong in 80 years?
The oldest rhythm maker in town?
Long before EDM, House and when rock was still something you kicked down the road, Wurlitzer created the first commercially available drum machine.
The mechanics are wild, the amplifier and drum voices are all valve/tube and it’s not something you’d much want to take to a gig, but it sounds so good.
It’ll let you waltz, tango and do the Cha Cha Cha, but predating Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, there is no rock setting nor even rock’n’roll.
Made when machines were built to last, it’s all working bar a few minor mechanical fixes: how many beatboxes made today will still be going strong in 80 years?
![“We never messed with [effects] really](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yq9QvPSlxhg/mqdefault.jpg "“We never messed with [effects] really
“We never messed with [effects] really. It would be way down the line that I got a pedalboard. The only pedal I used was the Space Echo, and I had this on/off switch to kick the delay in. And that was it.
Space Echo was a big part of the sound. We would go into the front of the Space Echo, and just turned the the preamp up full.”
Noel Gallagher on his Oasis guitar tone - interviewed on That Pedal Show.
Phil and I were working on some demo clips of the Soundgas Type G pedal in the studio yesterday when this happened - Les Paul into Fender amp (low volume/clean setting), touch of Boss DD-3.
The Type G combines our experience modding Roland Space Echo preamps and the germanium Grampian 636 so perhaps unsurprising that it excels at driven rock tones.
This is just the raw the iPhone recording (not the amp mics) - phone mounted horizontally over the pedalboard...
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