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So, basically the tubes only exist to glow. And to disable the circuit when they're removed. Clever. I'm not surprised. Most of the cheap devices containing tu
by ratww 4y ago
So, basically the tubes only exist to glow. And to disable the circuit when they're removed. Clever.
I'm not surprised. Most of the cheap devices containing tubes I see use a starved plate design, where the tubes are operating well below their ideal range, use a LED for "lightning" (because there's often no AC power to light up the tube filaments), all coupled with $1 reject tubes. Sure, it distorts very easily, so they can be used on music making, but so would a pair of diodes. This is just the next step in the evolution.
- marcosdumay 4y agoThe passion people have for tube is so much that at some point I expect to see a full 32 bits DSP with low latency ADC and DAC disguised as one.
- bsder 4y agoI've often thought about making tubes that simply glowed but didn't do anything ... Seriously, though, they're called "modeling amps". And many of them sound quite nice.
- notjulianjaynes 4y agoI once circuit bent an old Casio that had a discrete DAC chip, and found I could get some really cool sounding distortion just sticking a 50k pot between the digital in and analog out pins of that chip.