tube synthsizer

[Cal Grant]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Paul Perry wrote:

> At 01:16 PM 25/10/99 -0700, Cal Grant  wrote:
> 
> >
> You can get around the biassing by running a negative high tension rail as
> well as the normal positive. You have a voltage divider from the anode down
> to this, and 
> pick off the output from the stage at the point that under no load is zero.
> Look in any of the 1950& 1960 analog computer books (Like Korn's) for details.


Paul,

But then the two High Voltage supply rails need to track well, and all
stages must be working perfectly. It's bad enough with solid state stuff! 
Anyway, far be it from me to be trying to convince someone not to build a
tube-based synth. I guess some people have already gotten bored, having
built the perfect solid state synth. Has anyone priced out the cost and
availability of 1/2 watt and 1 watt metal film resistors and precision 1%
caps with 350VDC ratings recently?  ;-)

<Flame suit on>


cj