difference in tone power tubes 6L6/EL84/EL34 etc..

[Diego]

Re: difference in tone power tubes 6L6/EL84/EL34 etc..

I had a similar experience switching my MkV from 6L6GCs to EL34s, a little more mids, slightly less bass and a little less ice picky in the highs. It still sounds like a MkV but ch2&3 the distortion smoothed out a bit, but ch1 did lose a little of the roundness that made it sound great, but not enough that it sounds bad

In my situation, 6V6 had a lovely warm crunch with early breakup. 6CA7 tubes give a bit more headroom, better bass "tolerance" and the crunch went from warm to pummeling, too bright if pushed too hard in fact.

Good stuff.