Need a voltage follower buffer for a tube, how to calculate and select a mosfet

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I'm finishing up a design here: https://123d.circuits.io/circuits/852190-jan-6418-vaccum-tube-valve-preamp which is a preamp for an instrument.

First, let me know if anything stupid pops out at you with this circuit, I'm not an EE 🙁

Second, the original design I'm modifying heavily is here:http://s13.postimg.org/patw5krxj/k270.png

Here is my current progress: enter image description here

The original design calls for T1 to be a BSN254A, which is no longer available, so I need to concoct a replacement circuit. I think a mosfet was selected originally because it's voltage, not current, driven and doesn't put a load on V2.

I don't have the faintest clue how to select a proper replacement mosfet and how to calculate the values surrounding it. Where do I start?

EDIT

Since this is a guitar stompbox project, supply voltage is 9v which is fed at v1 in the top right. My bad, I'll mark that on the schematic. Hoping to make this a PCB people will actually use to give themselves a nice warm tone with their guitars and mikes someday 🙂

Best Answer

The biasing of the vacuum tubes looks pretty suspect- I'd expect the cathodes to be isolated from the heaters and for there to be some cathode degeneration at DC (parallel RC). Otherwise you're very much depending on the characteristics of the particular tubes at the particular moment to set the bias point.

Anyway, a suitable MOSFET for the source follower assuming your relatively low B+ would be the Toshiba SSM3K15FS. It's got similarly low input capacitance, low Vgs(th) and similar other characteristics (except it's in an SMT package and is only rated for 30V).