Tube sound (or valve sound) is the characteristic sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube-based...
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A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between...
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blues, rock and metal players. The Tube Screamer has been used by many guitarists to create their signature sound, and is one of the most successful,...
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nodes) along the tube. Where there is oscillating pressure due to the sound waves, less gas will escape from the perforations in the tube, and the flames...
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A groan tube is a toy that when turned on one end, makes a distinct "groan" sound. This is due to a noise maker in the tube that vibrates in the air as...
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YouTube is an online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three...
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The Eustachian tube (/juːˈsteɪʃən/), also called the auditory tube or pharyngotympanic tube, is a tube that links the nasopharynx to the middle ear, of...
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overdriven sound by turning up their vacuum tube-powered guitar amplifiers to high volumes, which caused the signal to distort. While overdriven tube amps are...
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The Tube Bar prank calls are a series of prank calls made in the mid-1970s to the Tube Bar in Jersey City, New Jersey, in which Jim Davidson and John Elmo...
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Talk box (category Sound recording)
instrument. Typically, a talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth by means of a plastic tube adjacent to a vocal microphone. The...
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Valve audio amplifier (redirect from Car tube amp)
valve audio amplifier (UK) or vacuum tube audio amplifier (US) is a valve amplifier used for sound reinforcement, sound recording and reproduction. Until...
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Amplifier (redirect from Sound amplification)
Vacuum tubes remain in use in some high end audio equipment, as well as in musical instrument amplifiers, due to a preference for "tube sound". Magnetic...
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Guitar amplifier (redirect from Tube amps)
resolved. While tube-based circuitry is technologically outdated, tube amps remain popular since many guitarists prefer their sound. Tube enthusiasts believe...
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The Rijke tube is a cylindrical tube with both ends open, inside of which a heat source is placed that turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying...
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Kundt's tube is an experimental acoustical apparatus invented in 1866 by German physicist August Kundt for the measurement of the speed of sound in a gas...
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The tube zither is a stringed musical instrument in which a tube functions both as an instrument's neck and its soundbox. As the neck, it holds strings...
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Valve amplifier (redirect from Tube amplifier)
advocate the use of tube amplifiers for home listening. They argue that tube amplifiers produce a "warmer" or more "natural" valve sound. Companies in Asia...
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Audio power amplifier (category Sound reinforcement system)
minority continue to use tube preamps, tube power amps and tube effects units. While hi-fi enthusiasts and audio engineers doing live sound or monitoring tracks...
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notes are sounded by explosions, or similar forms of rapid combustion, rapid heating, or the like, such as burners in cylindrical glass tubes, creating...
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Harnessing the power of virtual quantum broadcasting "What Does Sound Look Like?". NPR. YouTube. 9 April 2014. Archived from the original on 10 April 2014...
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Acoustic resonance (redirect from Closed tube)
sound waves, as in a Rubens Tube. The resonance properties of a cylinder may be understood by considering the behavior of a sound wave in air. Sound travels...
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Wind chime (section Sounds and music)
chance-based music. The tubes or rods may sound either indistinct pitches, or fairly distinct pitches. Wind chimes that sound fairly distinct pitches...
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Microphone (category Sound recording)
condenser microphone that uses a vacuum tube (valve) amplifier. They remain popular with enthusiasts of tube sound. The dynamic microphone (also known as...
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for the patient to attend to environmental sounds. Patulous Eustachian tube is a form of Eustachian tube dysfunction, which is said to be present in...
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Wind instrument (section Physics of sound production)
length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column of air. In the case of some wind instruments, sound is produced...
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that "if you're one of those people who believe only tube technology can deliver the true classic sound, a few minutes spent using the Distressor might cause...
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A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a...
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impression of Vincent Price over a descending chord progression and test-tube sound effects. The song was officially released as part of the 2021 compilation...
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whistle, which could be sounded by blowing into the tube from the other end. On naval vessels, this created a distinctive sound associated with urgent...
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Transistor (section Comparison with vacuum tubes)
lack the lower-harmonic distortion – the so-called tube sound – which is characteristic of vacuum tubes, and is preferred by some. Transistors are categorized...
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