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- From: till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman)
- Subject: Re: Building effects units for guitars
- In-Reply-To: insomnia@carson.u.washington.edu's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:15:13 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:15:13 GMT
- From: insomnia@carson.u.washington.edu (Ryan Klemmer)
- Organization: University of Washington
-
- Ask any guitar player what kind of amplifier they would use and most would
- say tube. Why? Because they have a certain sound that semiconductor
- devices just can't produce.
-
- Not true; tube amplifiers sound like they do because of the specific
- circuit topology used, the overdrive characteristics, and the low use of
- feedback -- not because they use tubes. (I described this more completely
- in an earlier post.)
-
- On the market however, you'll find that all the available tube amps are
- subtle variations variations on one design and all transistor amps are
- subtle variations on maybe three designs, so yeah, the generalization holds
- in that respect. But note the distinction between what's available on the
- market and what's technically possible! Besides being inaccurate, you're
- making an extremely rude insult to the field of electrical engineering when
- you say that an amplifier built with a certain active device has to (or
- can't) sound a certain way.
-
- Moving on to effect devices. Why analog? Same reason.
-
- In case it wasn't clear, my comments about the musical quality of analog
- vs. digital effects were specifically about what's available on the market,
- not what's technically possible.
-
- -- Don
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