how can you starve a 12ax7 with a 13V 2 amp wall wart?
and I would suggest that if you do buy a tube preamp for recording, it be a
decent one, of course cheap price is going to get you cheap sound, same is
true with transistor stuff.
Also, using tube preamps for voice recording doesn't do anything since tube
preamps really only shine when there is more then 3000 hertz of audio
bandwidth to consider...such as with drums and guitar and so on.
SO what you are suggesting is that all the studios who use tube microphones
and tube preamps should stop and get noisy, easily distorted transistorized
preamps and mikes?
Perhaps you aren't saying that, but definitely buying cheap tube stuff will
get cheap results.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Brett Winchester" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: alternative to Jaws....


> Richard,  That is truly devious.... I can just imagine the customer who
> might fall for this, grin.
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> DOn't use the main subject of this thread at all, don't use
> any of their products and see no relevance on a ham radio
> list, but this topic has turned into something interesting.
>
> COlin wrote:
>    >no no no!!!! the glow in the dark still has much supperior sound
>    >quality no matter what.
>    >You can not get the same sound quality out of any transistorized
>    >equipment. You might come close, and certainly the smaller size,
>    >lack of substantial heat and feature rich components certainly
> make
>    >the non-tube stuff easier, cheaper and nicer to be around.
>    >Any musician worth his sault will tell you that tube driven
>    >amplifiers still are far far supperior to transistorized amps.
>    >The same is true with audio equipment such as stereos and preamps
>    >and so on. That said, of course, a 1948 am tube radio probably
> wont
>    >sound as good as your 15 dollar wallmart special bed side radio,
>    >but if you compare a modern tube amp, against a modern transistor
>    >amp, there is a huge difference. tubes are warmer, have more head
>    >room, are cleaner, and can take much more abuse and knocking about
>    >then most transistorized components.
> true enough, but that having been said if you're looking for
> audio gear such as a microphone preamp for recording
> etcetera stay from the so-called tube preamps you might find
> at Guitar center and the budget so-called pro-audio stores
> such as those made by ARt etc.
> Figure if it's tube gear and it's powered by a wall wart
> it's not real tube gear.  IT's the starved plate to get it
> todistort so the wanna be cool recording in their basement
> guys will think they got that real warm tube sound.
> Big thread on rec.audio.pro as some dipstick was considering
> one of these to at some so-called warmth to his voice-over
> recordings.
>
> 73 de nf5b
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> Richard Webb,
> Electric Spider Productions,
> Eads Tn.
>