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123 Bass Nation Monthly Featured Bass Hero

Vol. 4

THE TECH 21 BOX THAT REMOVED THE AMP.
How Andrew Barta Quietly Changed the Signal Chain.

123 Bass Nation is proud to present an exclusive deep dive with the original creator of Tech21 

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Some companies manufacture music equipment. Others change the way musicians think about making music.
MEET: Tech 21 founder, musician and inventor B. Andrew Barta.
And this is not simply a story about pedals.
It is the story of an idea that arrived before much of the music world was ready for it.
Long before musicians routinely talked about amp-less stages, direct recording rigs, compact touring systems and carrying an entire signal chain on a pedalboard, Andrew Barta was already questioning one of the most basic assumptions in electric music: why should the sound of a great amplifier require the physical amplifier itself?
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS 

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ANDREW BARTA IN THE BEGINNING
ANDREW BARTA LET'S TALK ABOUT REJECTION & SUCSESS
THE POWER OF DIRECT RECORDING BT ANDREW BARTA
MEETING DUG PINNICK FOR THE FIRST TIME BY ANDREW BARTA
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