Trevor Pinch's DIY Modular Synth. Homemade Tape Delay. DIY Tape delay. Cheap Tape Saturation Hack: Delicious Distortion with a Tape-to-CD Adapter. What a lovely coincidence that tape, originally a recording medium, works beautifully for distortion and saturation. Whatever the reason, tape saturation is a popular effect. If you want subtle, pristine saturation, there are various meticulous models of high-quality studio equipment. That was one topic in our interview earlier this week with Universal Audio’s Dr. David Berners. (UA’s model is intended to model the entire multitrack tape deck, so quite a bit different.) There’s also, on a much gentler budget, a simple saturation effect in the US$79 Harrison Mixbus, intended more for the saturation behavior on main or submix buses than for replicating the tape equipment itself.
But sometimes pristine, high-fidelity tape equipment is the opposite of what you want. You don’t need any pricey equipment: just one unwanted tape deck and a CD-to-cassette adapter you almost certainly have buried in a drawer or closet. He writes: Well worth checking out his music, too, whilst you’re there.
Norman Koren Vacuum tube audio page. Tubemods.zip Shift-click to download the tube models as a compressed file which must be "unzipped" with Pkunzip, Winzip or a similar program. 87 kB. SPICE and the art of preamplifier design An update of an article originally published Glass Audio, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 1 and No. 4, p. 38, 1997. Discusses preamplifier design using the Dynaco PAS as an example. Contains designs with outstanding sound quality, some suitable for PAS modification projects, some for new projects.
The Emperor's New AmplifierTM My ultimate dream amplifier. 80 watts of class AB2 triode power with low feedback (none global) using a wide bandwidth toroidal output transformer with a servo to maintain dc-balance. Designed with extensive PSpice simulation. Duncan's Amp Pages The best source of vacuum tube data sheets and links. Art Ludwig's Sound Page Lots of great stuff on the physics of sound, human hearing, and audio design. The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. REG on Audio (Robert E. James E. BiAmp (Bi-Amplification - Not Quite Magic, But Close) - Part 1. Rod Elliott - ESP Last Updated 15 December 2006 Articles Index Main Index Introduction Most people would tend to think that bi-amping a hi-fi system (or even a sound reinforcement system) is unnecessary, or only for the most esoteric of systems.
This is not the case, as the following article will attempt to demonstrate. If you are in a position to spend $25,000 or more for a pair of speakers, then this is approaching the 'cost no object' arena, but the majority of people cannot afford such luxuries, and must settle for something a little more pedestrian. NoteSome of the terms used in the descriptions of various design configurations may be registered trade marks.
The following is a technical article, and is not an attempt to sell any product. Some further reading from other ESP pages ... Table of Contents 1.0 - The Basics of Bi-Amplification Bi-amping is a technique which uses one amplifier for the low frequencies, and another for mid and high frequencies. 1.1 - Terminology.