What is a good brand/type of Function Generator?

[blinddog]

What is a good brand/type of Function Generator?

I know there was some discusssion of this recently on the board, but I can't seem to find it with any searches I've done. Based upon Gary's method for breaking in a speaker I'd like a sweep built in.

Tektronix? HP? B&K? I figure I can use a dial selector just as well as digital, but as far as reliability does it pay to get newer?

Any help, as always is appreciated.

Have a great weekend.

[Allynmey]

Ebay has a lot of them. All the brands you mentioned are good. I have an HP. I bid on about 20 of them and they went for outrageous prices. I found a great one that ended during the middle of the day and got it for $45.00. I guess that policy on not using company computers that people have to live by really paid off for me!

[benoit]

I don't know how great they are but there was a tenma going for 45ish that would probably do fine for guitar amp work.

[blinddog]

yeah I was looking at those and the Wavetechs.

I was also looking at the B&K's with sweep and the old dials. I was thinking I'd be better off with B&K as it was a name I recognize.

In checking out the listings its seems a lot weren't functioning and even more were untested. I was thinking a known brand like those I listed would be less of a gamble.

Thanks guys.

BTW Allyn congrates on the transfer, if I didn't know better I would have even suspected anything changed. Keep up the good work here and with your excellent amps and chassis and thanks.
Jim

[Allynmey]

Blind, thanks for the praise but, we haven't transferred the forum yet!

I will be much more stable in it's new home.

[thousandshirts]

I will be much more stable in it's new home.

For those of us who found your comments to represent a stable personality already, this is hard to imagine.

To the OP, I should also mention, I've never met anything that my pair of HP-200CDs couldn't deal with. Fix em myself, too.

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