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I thought tubes required high voltage to work?

April 26, 2017high tubes voltage

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I thought tubes required high voltage to work?

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This is true. To make tubes sound good and clean, they need lots of voltage. Since we are not trying to get the tubes to sound good, but rather trying to get the tubes to distort, we starve them to suit our purpose. Nasty trick… but it works.