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| Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2008 Location: 3rd Stone From The Sun
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Thread Starter Verified Member | How long do you let tube gear warm up before using it? How long do you let "tube gear" warm up before using it? 1 hour ? 1/2 hour ? Leave it on ? Doesn't Matter ? Just Curious.... |
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| Mastering Moderator Joined: Apr 2003 Location: Always on the Run
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At least one hour. Yes I do switch them off at the end of the day.
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| Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Generally I like to turn on the one piece of tube gear used here (a Pendulum OCL-2) an hour prior to the session - although on a couple occasions I've used it without any noticeable difference in the results after around only 15 minutes after turning it on. fwiw - All my gear gets turned off when I'm not using it. Best regards, Steve Berson |
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| Gear addict Joined: Sep 2006 Location: La Center, WA
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I'd really be surprised if the tubes get any warmer after 10 minutes of being on.
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I turn the stuff on as I'm setting up; usually end up getting signal through it in a half-hour to an hour. If I'm just starting a mix and plug signal through cold tubes, I notice a gradual change in sound for about forty minutes or so, sometimes longer with certain pieces. Oddly enough, I actually prefer the sound of certain "cold" tube pieces every now and then. I also notice a change in sound quality as my clock and/or convertors "warm up"...particularly with my mixdown A/D (an Apogee Rosetta). |
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I let everything (tube, solid state, amps, compressors, EQ's, converters, I don't care what) warm up for around 15 minutes before I start moving signal.
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Minneapolis
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My Requisite L2M seems to want about an hour to stabilize. That's about how long it takes between when I turn it on in the morning and when I want to start capturing sound through it. GR |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2004 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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You can hear and measure the gain level change until it stabilizes at around 30 minutes.
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| Gear maniac Joined: Dec 2006
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30 mn for me
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2008 Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
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30 mins or more
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| Lives for gear | Yep and even then she'll drift a little bit depending on where she is placed in the console or racks. I found moving it out of my console and putting it into my rack with nothing above it or below it (by at least one rack space) keeps her the most stable... but the tweaker is never too far just in case!
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| Mastering Joined: Mar 2006
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| 5 minutes, but it continues to warm up for a couple of hours while I'm working on the sound, because I work on several songs before committing anything to a new master file. If I'm doing a single, it's probably an hour before I cut a new file, so the tubes have been warming up for an hour (while they're being used). The changes in sound after 5 to 15 minutes are so subtle you can still get to work on your sound.
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| Gear addict Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Portland, OR.
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for the most part i wait 20 - 30 minutes before passing signal through it. (that includes converters) i feel it is usually pretty locked in at that point, with only subtle changes from then on. i'm generally not printing anything within the first hour anyways. some of the older pultecs i used to use, the owner would make me wait an hour before using them. gentle up front, then i would abuse them ![]() k |
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| Gear interested Joined: Apr 2006 Location: North Bend, WA
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About 20-30 minutes here, like someone in another thread suggested, I use my lava lamp to help me remember when I started...when it's warmed up, so are my tubes! thumbsup Mike Bruce Auricle Audio Mastering Auricle Audio Mastering | Home myspace.com/auricleaudiomastering |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2002 Location: Brazil, Florianópolis/SC
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10 to 30 minutes.
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| Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2008 Location: 3rd Stone From The Sun
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2008 Location: Houston/Paris
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20 to 30 mn and about 12h and a half for my class A toobes
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| Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2009 Location: austria
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i turn it on and start to work but it takes some time till hitting the record button..
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| Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2003 Location: Hollywood CA
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A half hour at the minimum, but I leave everything on all the time. DC |
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