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Importance of warm up. I hope this helps someone

I was checking a cassette I had made last month back to the original CD source for comparison. All my equipment had been on for 4-5 hours except CD player. I cued both up and the CD player was overly clear (bright) compared to the cassette made from the same source a month earlier. I thought well since this is a cassette I should expect some roll off in the highs after a period of time but not so soon. OK everybody. Im a cassette fan. I grew up with it and I know other mediums maybe are better. OK back to the warmup. I decided to let CD player warm up for 30 mins. I compared again and cassette was a perfect copy of the CD!!!. I can only figure the CD player was not warmed up. Everything else stayed ther same and was constant. I pay more attention to warmup now. I know it was important but I did not see how much until today.
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axelfonze
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Tubes really need to warm up before use. Just ask any guitar player. The effect with solid state gear is much less pronounced (and even debatable), but tubes definitely need to warm up before sounding their best, or even listenable sometimes.

Oh, and most recording studios do NOT still use analog tape. Some big budget stuff will still mix to tape, or track to tape before dumping to digital for overdubs and mixing, but tape is slowly going the way of the dinosaur.
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