<div dir="ltr"><div>Remember that back then those fuzzy distorted sounds were considered cool.<br><br></div>Hence the popularity of kazoos and such.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Marshland Engineering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marshland@marshland.co.nz" target="_blank">marshland@marshland.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Back in the old day, yes my first receiver was a valve amp (after crystal<br>
sets) I read that transistors have distortion in odd harmonic frequencies<br>
range and valves in even range. Our ears happily accept even harmonics but not<br>
odd. It was common to see valve amps with 10% distortion figures quoted and<br>
transistor with 0.01 %<br>
<br>
When you overdrive valves, as the base guitarists did, it really didn't sound<br>
that bad.<br>
<br>
Roll on valves.<br>
<br>
Cheers Wallace.<br>
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