Re: Recording voice with tubes?

"soundhaspriority" <soundhaspriority@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not worried :). I do not believe in the magic power of tubes. A tube
is
simply an analog effects processor.

No, it ain't. A tube is an active device with certain characteristics. If
you design its circuit to have lots of distortion, then it's an analog
effects processor. If you design it to have low distortion, it's an
extremely clean and transparent device without certain artifacts that often
(not always!) go with solid-state devices. Most of those great vintage
recordings you seem to treasure were made on *clean* tube circuits, not
circuits with lots of "fat toob" distortion. Clean tube designs will blow
the "fat toob" crap out of the water.

Peace,
Paul


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