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Article #4590Re: Nostalgia
From: Clark McDonald
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 21:10
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 21:10
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In article <908@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Gregory Ebert) writes: > > I received a sales flyer today advertising vacuum tubes for sale! > Remember when you could 'shotgun' your TV with 6GH8's and 12AX7's ? > Does anyone out there know of any equipment manufactured within > the last 20 years which uses these things ? Oh yeah! The Fender Twin Reverb Guitar Amplifier, The Marshall Guitar Amplifier and several other less famous tube guitar amps use the venerable 12AX7 in the preamp to driver stages. Most guitar players, mahself included, would rather eat lint than play thru a bipolar transistor amp. That's because of the odd-order distortion inherent in a bipolar setup. Tubes are neat, because they exhibit even order harmonics when overdriven. Now the 6GH8 is a hard one. Haven't seen one in anything of recent manufacture. Maybe someone out there in netland has..... -- Clark (Mack) McDonald ARPA: mack@frc.ri.cmu.edu Field Robotics Center Carnegie Mellon University (412) 268-6555 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-- Clark (Mack) McDonald ARPA: mack@frc.ri.cmu.edu Field Robotics Center Carnegie Mellon University (412) 268-6555 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cive.ri.cmu.edu!mack From: mack@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Clark McDonald) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Nostalgia Keywords: tubes Message-ID: <8827@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 11 Apr 90 21:10:38 GMT References: <908@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 26