Vacuum Tube Preamp


Posted on Oct 17, 2012

Figure 1 shows distortion variations in red and violet. Notice how the violet wave follows the green wave perfectly during its positive excursion but falls short of the mark during the negative swing. The red wave is more symmetrical, but does not `clip` like an overdriven IC op-amp. This is what I like to call `The Sonic Airbag,` or Electric Crayon effect. Op-amps are linear-clean right up until the point of clipping, some discrete transistor and vacuum tube designs have a non-linear window between clean and clipped.


Vacuum Tube Preamp
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