Re: The Bonobos' EP is now available in alt.binaries.punk

"Andrew @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Rockface" wrote:

> Tubes are good. How long do you need to let a modern tube amp warm up
for?

You don't *have* to wait at all! It's not like cold filaments in the tubes
are
gonna hurt anything. The tubes just will not have reached their full
amplifying
capacity yet.

A vacuum tube is much like a transistor, in that it's just an electronic
switch
with a reasonably linear transition over a certain time interval between
on and
off. It's this range which is used to 'amplify' electonic singnals. A tube
need
to have it's filament heated suficiently for the tube to perform it's
switching
action, or any action. Transistors are solid state, the switching action
coming
from a solid semiconductor material being 'influenced' to conduct more or
less,
based on the presence of a 'base" voltage. A tube does basically the same
thing, only a tube requites a hot filament to emit electrons, which are
controlled via a 'gate' voltage. Filament not hot, no eletrons emitted
yet,
thus no voltage to the 'collector', thus no 'amplification', yet!

Being an EE sucks sometimes, yano? ;-)

John Kuthe...