[sdiy] Tube!

[Michael Zacherl]

On Aug 2, 2008, at 3:17 AM, Ian Smith wrote:

>
>> sounds great, Ian!
>> How about driving it harder/hard to get it into saturation? (as an
>> option of course).
>> This would probably add a pot to it.
>>
>
> Cool... I think maybe a solid-state gain stage before the actual  
> tube circuit might do it.

What's the input sensitvity of your circuit?


>> I looked for previous postings about this - what tube is it and what
>> voltages do you need for it?
>> (since you mentioned "MOTM").
>>
>
> It's a 12AE7... one of those space-charged tubes developed for car  
> stereos, so it runs off of +12V for both plate and heaters. So, to  
> use it with an actual MOTM setup, you'd have to use a LM7812 to  
> bring the voltage down a bit.




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