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Old 23rd April 2009   #2
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The sound of a tube mic is the interaction of (many things but mainly) the capsule, the tube and the output transformer. While you can get flavour from a pre it won´t make a solid state microphone behave and sound like a classic tube design.

And it´s not a stupid question at all.
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