AW: tubes, transistors......

[Jeff Foster]

Haible Juergen wrote:

> -snip-
>
> When we look at sound generation (instead of sound
> reproduction), everything is different. How many guitarists
> have you heard complaining about the distortion of the
> tubes in their amp ? There's also a lot arguing if this
> sound can be emulated to some degree with solid
> state circuits or not, but the point is that the *distorted*
> tube sound is the *reference* here, and "tube distortion"
> is a compliment, not an insult.
>
> With building electronic music instruments and FX devices,
> I always feel much closer to a guitar amp than to the HiFi
> stuff, and I'm sure most people here feel similar.
> Any complaint about the distortion of a Moog cascade ?
> The distortion of a timbre modulator ?
> I think you get the point. So if anybody here mentions "tube
> distortion" in a subordinary clause, you can bet he has no
> bad intention, and more important, he may be completely
> RIGHT in this context.
>
> JH.

I agree, we are interested in the sound, not the chart recorder output :-)lets
get back to sound and circut design. BTW - some of what I stated early started
this
latest exchange battle, so I say enough and lets enjoy the helpfulness and
knowledge this list brings to
each of us.

soooo, has anyone built EB's tube vco, vcf or vca ??

ta,
Jeff

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