Depends on what you're monitoring through as well and your setup. What are you running the axe through?Dang, I guess my ears are beyond gone, as I truly can’t discern any diff as I change which tubes the power section is using. 6CA7’s sound EXACTLY the same as EL34s, EL84s or even KT88s.Oh well, at least I can still hear the overall kick-ass tone 12.09 is generating.
Thanks Jon. Yeah, so true. I was monitoring through my Adam Ax7a's earlier and this evening through some headphones. I'm noticing ever so small a change w headphones, but, some of my hearing went the way of the dinosaur back in the 70's & 80's. And I'm playing my Carvin solid mahogany with hot p/u's. Thanks for the assist. Cheers, Lee
You're not alone, I don't hear much of a difference changing power tubes either. I think it was mentioned in a post that the tubes are normalized to match the transformer. In the wiki there's a quote from cliff where he explains that power tubes don't really have a tone themselves. I wish there was a non normalized mode/option so there would be a more apparent difference when running different power tubes. Thing is, I don't know of many amps that let you switch freely between power tube types. I know a lot of Mesa amps have a bias switch for el34 and 6l6 and I think the road king let's you blend them. I don't sweat it though, there's plenty for me to tweak, I love tinkering with advanced parameters.
Dang, I guess my ears are beyond gone, as I truly can’t discern any diff as I change which tubes the power section is using. 6CA7’s sound EXACTLY the same as EL34s, EL84s or even KT88s.
Smallbox used to be my fav Marshally amp in the box, by far my fav real life Friedman amp. I actually prefer the SB and the DS to the BE in real life, in the box I use the BE more....go figure.
