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Oh, is that all there is to it?

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A mind boggling amount of tooling involved. I guess its all recovered from a closed-down tube prototyping plant or something.

That vacuum pump looks custom made though, very tidy.
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Don't you guys know the only way to get any decent tone is to buy custom designed and built tubes? duh.

Jeez thats cool, specially liked how they did the glass. I have no sound at uni though, so have to watch this at home.
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Don't worry, it's a piano backing track...
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You will enjoy this too. Mullard Blackburn factory story.

http://www.techtubevalves.com/about_us/film_reels.php

(34 mins long, use full screen mode)
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