Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 2004/09

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: RE: [kl] A bit off topic: vacuum tubes in amplifiers ??
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:22:27 -0400

David wrote
>
> Whereas MOST (again, certainly not all) guitarists tend to use tube
> amplifiers for the warm series of overtones produced when those amps are
> pushed into non-linear behavior.

Actually, I'm seeing more using tube preamps and somewhat overdriving the
2nd stage, then using solid-state for the power amps. Easy to get out 300W
of clean power that way. I more than once melted the 6L6s on my Bassman
when I had that (along with blowing the output transformer as the plate
sagged into the grid & cathode ... and a 50W output transformer wasn't
cheap!)

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