It feels funny posting about tubes on a site called element14. After all silicon was the great disrupter that pushed vacuum tubes to the sidelines. Setting all that aside I know the e14 community will welcome this blog... but it still begs the question…
Long, long ago in a far away place outside of the box, I was challenged to build a tube amp to explore the sound of tubes clipping. The idea was to make a tube amp that could clip at low volume so we didn't have to wake up the neighborhood to explore…