Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

audible is the key word here....it'll still thump your chest even if deaf..

Huh?

 

[BklynKen]

Huh?

Beethoven?

 

[GonePlaid]

Oh man, I like clean. I'm probably the exception.

No, yer not. For years bass amp makers have tried to get clean and power. Then most everyone wants to f---* it up.

*uzz

 

[Gaolee]

Divine intervention...

It's Friday morning now. Let it roll!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

At 9v (I assume it is 9v), the tubes in these pedals are generally plate starved, which lends a different character to a 12A?7 running at full voltage (something north of 200V with plate dissipation around 2W). But, I think that there are pedals out there that do run at high voltage. Some like the sound of the plate starved tube and that is good too - in fact that is what sag is in a tube amp.

hmmm.....dunno, those green coupling caps look like high Voltage ones and that 8 pin DIP looks like it's clocking a switching transistor....

 

[PillO]

hmmm.....dunno, those green coupling caps look like high Voltage ones and that 8 pin DIP looks like it's clocking a switching transistor....

Maybe. Most of the pedals with a tube in them are running a plate starved tube. Just playing the odds.

 

[Gaolee]

The Specials put me in the mind of Toots:

I don't think he ever recorded a bad song.

 

[PillO]

Beethoven?

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[Chucky Stiletti]

Maybe. Most of the pedals with a tube in them are running a plate starved tube. Just playing the odds.

sure. in the 90s some manufacturers used to advertise "tube" functionality and place a tube where it could be seen from outside the enclosure but only connect the filament of the tube.... marketing at it's best..

 

[Gaolee]

And just because.

And also because things can't be all fun and games on a Friday.

 

[Gaolee]

Back to fun and games on a Friday.

 

[BklynKen]

hmmm.....dunno, those green coupling caps look like high Voltage ones and that 8 pin DIP looks like it's clocking a switching transistor....

Maybe. Most of the pedals with a tube in them are running a plate starved tube. Just playing the odds.

Does this help?

The Thunder Knob is a new, all-tube design that runs a 12AX7 vacuum tube now at 250V to deliver lush tube tone with tons of headroom. The pedal takes a standard 9v DC power input and boosts it internally via LBA's custom low noise DC to DC voltage booster. Any standard 9v pedal adapter will work if it can output at least 350mA of current.

Edit: "no transistors or IC's"

 

[Mike.C.]

And just because.

And also because things can't be all fun and games on a Friday.

I love this one, too.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Does this help?

The Thunder Knob is a new, all-tube design that runs a 12AX7 vacuum tube now at 250V to deliver lush tube tone with tons of headroom. The pedal takes a standard 9v DC power input and boosts it internally via LBA's custom low noise DC to DC voltage booster. Any standard 9v pedal adapter will work if it can output at least 350mA of current.

there you go...

 

[BklynKen]

there you go...

I added this after the fact, from the product page: "no transistors or IC's."

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Playing a wedding in the redwoods today at this very cool place..

The wedding party is from Australia and they are a wedding (the odds) band (Evergreen Collective) as well.


The groom is the bass player so they are going to get up and do a few. Love when that happens. I even found a bass for him!...

 

[PillO]

sure. in the 90s some manufacturers used to advertise "tube" functionality and place a tube where it could be seen from outside the enclosure but only connect the filament of the tube.... marketing at it's best..

Yeah, I have seen those. There are amps like that too.

 

[PillO]

Back to fun and games on a Friday.

Love that movie.

Let's go do some crime. Yeah, let's go get sushi and not pay for it.

 

[PillO]

Does this help?

The Thunder Knob is a new, all-tube design that runs a 12AX7 vacuum tube now at 250V to deliver lush tube tone with tons of headroom. The pedal takes a standard 9v DC power input and boosts it internally via LBA's custom low noise DC to DC voltage booster. Any standard 9v pedal adapter will work if it can output at least 350mA of current.

Edit: "no transistors or IC's"

Yes, that answers it. 250V is about full plate voltage. I am guessing that the no transistors is not quite true. Probably no transistors in the signal path... Silicon is just so useful that it is hard to get away from it.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Yeah, I have seen those. There are amps like that too.

and keyboards believe it or not.....i would think starved plates today would be viewed as hoakey...