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Re: Marshall Mods / Trace Allen / etc

9/28/1999 4:48 PM
Trace
Re: Marshall Mods / Trace Allen / etc
quote:
"Also Steve Ahola mentioned the practice of biasing a pre-amp tube with a diode, one observation is that a diode almost eliminates (linearizing) negative feedback. (being that the diode causes constant voltage, only changing current...tubes being voltage controlled devices) "
 
 
Have you tried the diode trick yet Eth? It's pretty interesting and does actually sound pretty musical. I guess the diode sort of sets the bias on the cathode as far as I can tell.  
 
More wackiness to come!  
Trace  

 
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Eth Trace, Yeah I have that mod(diode... -- 9/29/1999 2:53 PM