Although the specific impulse of an electric thruster itself optionally could range up to where mass drivers merge into particle accelerators with fractional-lightspeed exhaust velocity for tiny particles, trying to use extreme exhaust velocity to accelerate a far slower spacecraft could be suboptimally low thrust when the energy available from a spacecraft's reactor or power source is limited ( a lesser analogue of feeding onboard power to a row of spotlights, photons being an example of an extremely low momentum to energy ratio ).

Although Wakeman is a noted player of the grand piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, Minimoog and many later models of synthesiser, he is well known as a proponent ( for a time ) of the Mellotron – an analogue electronic musical instrument that uses a bank of pre-recorded magnetic tape strips, each of which is activated by a separate key on its keyboard and lasts approximately 8 seconds.

Although all pay channels had been closed down on ITV Digital, many free-to-air channels continued broadcasting, including the five analogue channels, the BBC channels and ITV2, ITN News Channel, S4C2, TV Travel Shop and QVC.

Although sophisticated analogue waveshaping is possible, the greater simplicity and arbitrary waveforms of digital systems like direct digital synthesis led to most later instruments adopting entirely digital oscillator designs.

Although it is a structural analogue of tacrolimus, it acts somewhat differently and has different side-effects.

Although cable companies in Canada are permitted to carry only the local Sportsnet feed on analogue cable packages, all four feeds can be carried on digital television services.

Although the analogue television shutdown and digital conversion took place on August 31, 2011, CFTU-TV was granted a temporary extension for their analogue broadcasts until October 31, 2011.

Although the data is transmitted as digital information, the audio or voice channels for the system are analogue, employing FM.

Although DTT requires far less power to achieve the same coverage as analogue TV, this 17 dB difference is too large to ensure comparable coverage.

Although the bases of most of the songs were created by computers, analogue synthesizers and conventional drum machines were in fact used in many of the tracks.

Although the full extent of this tampering is not detailed, the most crippling is their pacifism — when Darhel are stressed, their bodies produce an epinephrine analogue they call tal — which unlike epinephrine, augments both physical and mental abilities.

Although the Emax II was a true 16-bit sampler with more polyphony, it also used digital filters and components, which sounded noticeably different from the original's analogue filter chips.

Although not entirely analogue, the vintage Raindirk Series III 24-channel desk does indeed dominate the studio control room.

Although he was a Marvel Comics character, he was an analogue of the DC Comics hero Green Arrow.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

Although superior to paper tape, DECtapes were relatively slow, and were supplanted as reliable disk drives became affordable.

Although other forms of storage are viable ( such as magnetic tape and solid-state drives ) disk drives have continued to offer the best fit for cost, performance, and capacity.

Although there are no formal definitions, typically short barb barbed tape has barbs from 10 mm to 15 mm long, medium barb tape has barbs 20 mm to 25 mm long, and long barb tape has barbs from 60 to 66 mm long.

Although many magnetic tapes have deteriorated over time to the point that the data on them has been irretrievably lost, punched tape can be read many decades later, if acid-free paper or Mylar film is used.

Although he invested in the stock market, to the point where there was a ticker tape machine in the livingroom, he played the market primarily to lose, or else invested in odd schemes that inadvertently paid off big ( swamp land found to have oil under it, etc .).

Although larger operators made use of commercial copying services, anybody who had access to copying equipment ( such as the portable tape to tape cassette players that first became common around the early 1980s ) could release a tape, and publicize it in the network of fanzines and newsletters that existed around this scene.

Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips ' decision in the face of pressure from Sony to license the format free of charge.

Although the group's demo tape was rejected by Motown, Gordon agreed to manage them and brought them to the attention of Johnny Rivers, who had just started his own label, Soul City Records.

Although Beth is shown to possibly have a way to free him when finding a revealing tape that Alex had sent him and taking it to the police, test audiences did not respond well.

Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing ( also known as sound on sound ), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.

Although all of the tracks are known, copies of the tape only occasionally become available on the Internet.

Although he had begun to compose at the age of 17, Fritsch regards as his first real composition the Duett für Bratsche ( Duet for Viola ), for viola and tape, which had a succès de scandale when he performed it at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1962 — one newspaper review called him a kühner Kratzer ( audacious scraper ) ( Schürmann 1976, 20 ).

Although previous artists such as William S. Burroughs had experimented with the idea of manipulating a reel to reel tape manually for the sounds produced ( such as with his 1950s recording, " Sound Piece "), vinyl scratching as an element of hip hop pioneered the idea of making the sound an integral and rhythmic part of music instead of uncontrolled noise.

Although tape and other technical advances dramatically improved audio quality of commercial recordings in the post-war years, the basic constraints of the electro-mechanical mastering process remained, and the inherent physical limitations of the main commercial recording media — the 78 rpm disc and the later 7-inch 45 rpm single and the 33-1 / 3 rpm LP record — meant that the audio quality, dynamic range, and running time of master discs were still limited compared to later media such as the compact disc.

Although featuring many of the songs that would be included on their future debut album, the tape did little to garner them any major label attention at the time.

Although easily found on the Internet, these demos capture the project at a very embryonic stage: songs are played in between various sound collages and tape experiments, one of which consists only of a six minute conversation between Mangum and Hart.

Although Philips and Grundig agreed on a common tape format, they came up with machines that were radically different mechanically.

Although there is a superficial similarity between Betamax and Betacam in that they use the same tape cassette, they are really quite different formats.

Although wire was not as suitable for editing as plastic-based magnetic tape would prove to be, in the field of radio broadcasting it offered tremendous advantages over trying to edit material recorded on transcription discs, which was usually accomplished by dubbing to a new transcription disc with the aid of multiple turntables, stopwatches and a lot of patience.

Although he improved on the arching of his father's instruments, by and large they are inferior and no match for the greatest maker of his day, Antonio Stradivari.

Although modern analytical chemistry is dominated by sophisticated instrumentation, the roots of analytical chemistry and some of the principles used in modern instruments are from traditional techniques many of which are still used today.

Although this is a relatively small value, it was well within the observational capability of the instruments available in the early eighteenth century.

Although these instruments have slow response time and low accuracy, they were sometimes used in measuring radio-frequency current.

Although most of the instruments built before the 1730s were small ( four octaves, four feet long ), the latest instruments were built up to seven feet long with a six octave range.

Although there are certain pieces where acoustic instruments are featured, almost all sounds of her pieces are created by a synthesiser.

Although contemporary electron microscopes are capable of two million-power magnification, as scientific instruments, they remain based upon Ruska ’ s prototype.

Although Schmidt's organ works may resemble others of the era in terms of length, complexity, and difficulty, they are forward-looking in being conceived for the smaller, clearer, classical-style instruments of the Orgelbewegung, which he advocated.

Although not unchallenged, validity generalization has broad acceptance with regard to many selection instruments ( e. g. cognitive ability tests, job knowledge tests, work samples, and structured interviews ) across a broad range of jobs.

Although not portable and often expensive, the piano's versatility and ubiquity have made it one of the world's most familiar musical instruments.

Although most ragtime was composed for piano, transcriptions for other instruments and ensembles are common, notably including Gunther Schuller's arrangements of Joplin's rags.

Although the instruments transposed at either F or C have been considered " orchestral ," there is no evidence that Sax intended this.

Although almost all whistles have some musical character, common whistles are not usually considered musical instruments, since they cannot play a melody, unless used as a – very shrill and loud – noise and rhythm instrument.

Although a baker by profession, Pujol would entertain his customers by imitating musical instruments, and claim to be playing them behind the counter.

Although his army lacked the siege instruments needed to take the Roman capital of Constantinople, they did raid Greece, leaving only small areas of the country unravaged, including the city of Athens.

Although most performers of classical and traditional instruments receive some instruction in music, art pop, or rock and roll history from teachers throughout their training, the majority of formal music history courses are offered at the college level.

Although performance practice was previously confined to early music from the Baroque era, since the 1990s, research in performance practice has examined other historical eras, such as how early Classical era piano concerti were performed, how the early history of recording affected the use of vibrato in classical music, or which instruments were used in Klezmer music.

( Although the flutes are not reed instruments, they are included as well.

Although traditional bluegrass performers eschew electrically amplified instruments, as used in other forms of popular music, it is common practice to " mike " acoustic instruments during stage performances before larger audiences.

Although these existing frameworks were in place before reunification, after the fall of the wall there was a need to develop new instruments in order to facilitate the spatial and economic development of the re-unified city.

Although Bailey occasionally made use of prepared guitar in the 1970s ( e. g., putting paper clips on the strings, wrapping his instruments in chains, adding further strings to the guitar, etc.

Although a court-martial might be presided by and prosecuted by officers, the instruments of execution are the ordinary weapons fired by members of the group from which he is being expunged.

Although the instrument usually descends only to ( written ) low B, continental instruments with an extension to low B ( sounding E ) have existed since early in the 19th century.