My dog and Them Bones

[Van Noord]

Been struggling to get the Pittbull to play nice with V30's all weekend. Finally I simply pulled all the original VHT labeled pre's from the amp. (19 yr old tubes)
I put in a random cocktail of JJ, Mesa, Ruby & Tungsol and there was a big improvement.
The mids shifted to a warmer, fatter, better place. The treble control was relaxed and less chirpy. The lows got tighter and beefier. As a result, I'm finding the V30's are now sounding much better than before with this amp.
Now I need to get hold of some KT88's!
Mr. Fryette would likely slap me though because I'm using speakers he does not recommend and I yanked all his specifically chosen preamp tubes! lol

[DankStar]

Re: My dog and Them Bones

19 years, wow. Must not have been used much before!

[~Vintage~]

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I didn't know tubes could last that long, wow!

[karpathion]

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Sounds pretty good!

[Maynardo]

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wow!!! sick tone dude, super tight and balls to spare!. I'd get an ISP Decimator tho

[atreidesheir]

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My silverface Champ is still running original GE Power tube and sylvania 12ax7. original rectifier too. Still test good. Playing on borrowed time though I know.
and You know why he chose those preamp tubes.

[mwalluk]

Re: My dog and Them Bones

Tone is subjective.

I swapped out all the "stock" tubes in my Deliverance, it sounds soooo much better in my ears.

In terms of KT88s, I had good results with JJs and Genalex Gold Lion RI

[Van Noord]

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wow!!! sick tone dude, super tight and balls to spare!. I'd get an ISP Decimator tho

Thanks dude! Yeah I just through my Decimator in the loop and it's dead silent now.
This clip was with the master volume at 75% and the channel at 50% so at 120 watts, it was much louder than the video lets you believe. The camera compresses and squashes the sound a lot at that volume too. As always, it sounds better standing in the room with the amp.

[El Dunco]

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The treble, bass and mids feel very seperated. Is that what you're aiming for?

[firebirdV]

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I couldn't hear any treble or mids. All lows or low-mids (very difficult to hear the actual song you are playing with this setup IMO).

[JOLLY]

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The treble, bass and mids feel very seperated. Is that what you're aiming for?

I couldn't hear any treble or mids. All lows or low-mids (very difficult to hear the actual song you are playing with this setup IMO).

It's not like this is a professional recording in a studio. It's not like it's even a mic'd up cab being run into some crappy free recording software. It's recorded with a some type of camera. It's not exactly going to have a great sound.

[El Dunco]

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What I said would still come across regardless of what it was recorded with.