fromthebark
Experienced
Did a lot of searching and didn't really find much.. so far I THINK they are RCA NOS - They're definitely not new..
my Mesa Express 5:50 had a bad 6L6 and kept blowing it's fuse, my friend had these so I popped them in and it works fine, and now actually sounds a hell of a lot more vintage than it should, almost tweedy, even on the BURN channel, which should be almost rectifier territory. I was quite surprised they worked to be honest, and I really dig the sound. I want to sell the amp so I needed to get it working again and these seem to be posing no problems thus far. I played for a good hour and really enjoyed the very different sounds compared to the Mesa tubes that were in there before.
It's a 6V6GT, the glass is painted black on the inside, you can see through if you REALLY try - both tubes say Grade [27] and Batch [52/08] hand written, and are stamped in white with 6V6GT - no other ID markings that I can see.
Here's a couple pics.
my Mesa Express 5:50 had a bad 6L6 and kept blowing it's fuse, my friend had these so I popped them in and it works fine, and now actually sounds a hell of a lot more vintage than it should, almost tweedy, even on the BURN channel, which should be almost rectifier territory. I was quite surprised they worked to be honest, and I really dig the sound. I want to sell the amp so I needed to get it working again and these seem to be posing no problems thus far. I played for a good hour and really enjoyed the very different sounds compared to the Mesa tubes that were in there before.
It's a 6V6GT, the glass is painted black on the inside, you can see through if you REALLY try - both tubes say Grade [27] and Batch [52/08] hand written, and are stamped in white with 6V6GT - no other ID markings that I can see.
Here's a couple pics.