What kinda tubes do you use?


Guitar-Sam
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Guitar-Sam
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01/12/2004 3:03 am
Hi all,just inquiring what kinda tubes does everyone here prefer.
I recently retubed my Marshall head.I replaced the stock tubes(svetlana)with Electro Harmonix tubes.I bought a matched pair of EL34s and 4,12ax7s and had the bias set.I heard they were sposed to sound like the old mullard tubes,well I don't have any mullards to compare to but m amp sounds awsome now.It went from a blunt,buzzy sound with no inbetween,to the smooth sound of a driven JCM800 head.The EL34s have slightly less volume than the stock ****lana's but boy are they smoother.
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01/12/2004 9:11 pm
I have sovtek tubes in my Hot Rod Deluxe, but I'm going to switch back to the 6L6's.
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01/13/2004 4:33 am
I've had very pleasing results from JJ (Tesla). They've resumed production on the previously unobtainable 12DW7 I needed for my Ampegs.
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