Tuesday, June 07, 2016
R53 working with a single compactron tube
Published on Jun 7, 2016 Metasonix Metasonix
"An experiment to make an R53/TM-1 operate using a single vacuum tube instead of two tubes. The last R53 board was made up, except for wiring to a compactron socket to use a 14BL11 dual triode plus pentode. In this video it is processing the output of a Zoom drum machine.
We did not expect it to work at all, but it worked perfectly. Only "awful" triodes with "bad" cutoff characteristics work in the R53 circuit and this otherwise-useless TV tube has suitably awful triodes inside.
The R53 is discontinued, but that infamous circuit design is not dead yet."
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