Fascinating peek inside a tube

  1. Just stumbled across this fascinating "Journey to the Center of a Tube".

    Enjoy!

    http://youtu.be/WnZRJjmOZb8

  2. Nice,

    Here they are building one..

    http://www.youtube.com/watc...

  3. Very cool vids, thanks guys.

  4. Amazing that the things ever got invented in the first place!

  5. Dare I say it? Totally Tubular! ;-)

  6. Will never complain about the cost of a valve again - just HOW do they make them so reliable?

  7. Hey Jayce, that was a cool vid. I LIKE those humongous tubes at the end. Would love to have those in an amp.

    That vid makes me want to persue a different career actually! :D

    The vid reminds me of this one (it's been posted here before):

    http://www.youtube.com/watc...

    And browsing for that one, I came across this (slightly tedious) one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watc...

    What makes the last one interesting is that they made an attempt to recreate the very first patented triode at the philips labs about 40km from here.:)

  8. That Claude guy is crazy! Now thats handmade!

    They truly are amazing things! Those HiFi tubes are huge!!

  9. I love the "Blue Peter" commentary at the beginning of the first vid. (British posters over 40 will know what I mean). Can you imagine an alternative approach...

    "What makes Odin's tone so heavy? Most importantly, ... because he's a mindless shredder...but also because he uses really big, loud, expensive equipment...and not just any equipment... but a modelling amp...and what makes a modelling amp so good?... the tubes that were inside the amp we digitally recreated..."

  10. Digital Tubes? :D

  11. Guess they give you "virtual tone"... ;-)

  12. "What makes Odin's tone so heavy? Most importantly, ... because he's a mindless shredder...but also because he uses really big, loud, expensive equipment...and not just any equipment... but a modelling amp...and what makes a modelling amp so good?... the tubes that were inside the amp we digitally recreated..."

    Haha Ray, that made me LOL. :D

  13. Far less fascinating, but very informative.

    How do tubes work exactly?

    http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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  14. aw man, I fell asleep after 3 minutes... :|

    This gentlemen is a little bit more entertaining!

    http://www.youtube.com/watc...

  15. Yay! Tubes! Thanks for the vids.

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