i am going to retube my soldano, i want to use jj's for both the pre and power amp sections. what i need to know is what tubes i could get to put a little more clean headroom into my amp. the 12ax7, the 12at7 or the 12au7? I have sovteks in the amp right now and they are a little thinner than i would like, i have heard the jj's tend to darken up the tones and that is something i would like in this amp. I do want some clean headroom as it really starts to break up at about 3 (out of 11) on the preamp volume. I can get a great bluesy overdrive with the preamp at 3 and the master at 8 or 9 but i would like to push some of the preamp distortion back just a little. should i put a 12au7 or 12at7 in positions 1 or 2? and use12ax7s for the rest of the preamp? hopefully i am making sense. Thanks for all the help guys.
Scott
Scott
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