[chbot] New valve

[Charles Manning]

Remember that back then those fuzzy distorted sounds were considered cool.

Hence the popularity of kazoos and such.


On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Marshland Engineering <
marshland at marshland.co.nz> wrote:

> Back in the old day, yes my first receiver was a valve amp (after crystal
> sets) I read that transistors have distortion in odd harmonic frequencies
> range and valves in even range. Our ears happily accept even harmonics but
> not
> odd. It was common to see valve amps with 10% distortion figures quoted and
> transistor with 0.01 %
>
> When you overdrive valves, as the base guitarists did, it really didn't
> sound
> that bad.
>
> Roll on valves.
>
> Cheers Wallace.
>
>
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