son of demag your Telefunkens...

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hi all;
since i had some time on my hands while waiting for parts for the rebuild of a 1968 Fender Twin Reverb, i decided to demag a tube or two and see what the fuss is about. well, i set up my tube tester i designed and built last year that plugs directly into a mic channel of a mixer and you go from there. well, i recorded 30 sec. of noise coming out of a old 12AX7 i had lying around onto one track, and then turned off the tester and removed the tube. after a min. or so of demag. using an old Maxell tape(remember tape?) head demagnetizer i plugged it back in and repeated the process of recording 30 sec. of tube noise. RUBY TUESDAY! the demag'd track was about 6db down from the not-demag'd track and noticeably quieter. running the track faders up and down was quite the experience. well, being the skeptical sort, i tried the same procedure with a "new production" EH 12AY7 and got basically the same results! hey, tube demag'ing works; the only question now is, "...how long does this effect last?..." have fun with this one and later....
don

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Topic - son of demag your Telefunkens... - geoduck 18:49:20 07/24/04 (3)

Re: son of demag your Telefunkens... - tianguis 18:24:19 07/28/04 (2)

Re: son of demag your Telefunkens... - geoduck 18:55:03 07/28/04 (1)

Re: More son of demag your Telefunkens... - tianguis 19:11:12 07/28/04 (0)

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