Electrocution and other things

[Bill Layer]

>Indeed, I'm intrigued by all the tube talk... it's not exactly something
>that I've heard too much of in my experience in electronics. Even in intro
>courses they sort of breeze over the subject and move on to transistors
>and opamps... 
>
Yes, and isn't that unfortunate. Truth is though, tubes have fallen along
the wayside in modern electronic design, but not in application. The
strange part of this is that nothing has supplanted them in many instances.
Take a look at Svetlana's website and you'll see industrial devices so
esoteric that I can't even tell you their specific purpose, much less even
suggest a solid-state replacement!

Tubes and transistors are both fully mature technologies, and amazingly
enough, neither is mutually exclusive of the other. What this means, is
that unless a totally new technology is created, we will be trading off
between electron tubes and transistors for a very, very long time.

These tube synth circuits are in my opinion, more inherently musical than
comparable SS circuits. If nothing else, build the tube VCO and use that a
signal source for your elsewise SS sytem. Even simpler, build the VCA (1,
yes one tube in this unit) and see how that sounds at the end of the chain. 

We need to organize a project for this... Eric's work is clearing the path,
let's pave it! Anyone interested? 

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Bill Layer
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