audiodon
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Tubes 101:
Chinacave has volunteered and he and I will tag-team a Tubes 101 workshop if there is interest. If you're interested, please let me know, either by PM or response in this thread.
Section 1:
The cool people have tube gear.
Some people grew up after the heyday of tubes and the only tubes in their lives were in microwaves, pre-flatscreen TVs and CRT computer monitors.
People say there's no listener fatigue with tubes.
I'm interested in tubes but have very little or no theoretical knowledge.
What are the approaches to get into them?
-A tube unit landed on me - Family heirloom, neighbor or serendipitous acquisition. Now what?
-Tubes on the cheap: traps and snares and setting expectations.
-I can fund a tube unit: how to approach this quandry properly
-Tubes for technophobes.
Section 2:
How to I test and get a piece of tube gear going
-How to start:
--preparation
--rudimentary gear required
--what not to do
--tubes for the mechanically or electrically inclined
-Testing - variac, dim bulb tester
-The tubes light. Now what?
Chinacave has volunteered and he and I will tag-team a Tubes 101 workshop if there is interest. If you're interested, please let me know, either by PM or response in this thread.
Section 1:
The cool people have tube gear.
Some people grew up after the heyday of tubes and the only tubes in their lives were in microwaves, pre-flatscreen TVs and CRT computer monitors.
People say there's no listener fatigue with tubes.
I'm interested in tubes but have very little or no theoretical knowledge.
What are the approaches to get into them?
-A tube unit landed on me - Family heirloom, neighbor or serendipitous acquisition. Now what?
-Tubes on the cheap: traps and snares and setting expectations.
-I can fund a tube unit: how to approach this quandry properly
-Tubes for technophobes.
Section 2:
How to I test and get a piece of tube gear going
-How to start:
--preparation
--rudimentary gear required
--what not to do
--tubes for the mechanically or electrically inclined
-Testing - variac, dim bulb tester
-The tubes light. Now what?
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