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Re: 5150 tubes

1/12/2005 9:48 AM
Richie	Re: 5150 tubes """"The 5150 has so many stages of gain that they may well swamp out anything you can notice. It's hard to discern subtle tone changes with a "crunch monster"! Make sure you try it with the amp set as clean as possible.""" As Bill was saying..this amp will need good tested preamp tubes to work in the high gain. Some, even if they are tested buy some companies..they still may not hold up in the gain stages. Just wanted to note that you need to find some good 12AX7,that don't make noise and microphonics.. There are alot of good 6L6s that will work in the amp.. Richie

1/12/2005 9:48 AM

Richie

Re: 5150 tubes

""""The 5150 has so many stages of gain that they may well swamp out anything you can notice. It's hard to discern subtle tone changes with a "crunch monster"! Make sure you try it with the amp set as clean as possible."""

As Bill was saying..this amp will need good tested preamp tubes to work in the high gain. Some, even if they are tested buy some companies..they still may not hold up in the gain stages. Just wanted to note that you need to find some good 12AX7,that don't make noise and microphonics..

There are alot of good 6L6s that will work in the amp..

Richie