Low Wattage Tube Amp Club Thread!!!
Low Wattage Tube Amp Club Thread!!!
Im just wanting something that i can spend hours just modding the hell outa, thats where the Epi Valve Jnr comes into its own, for starters im gonna do this if i get one:
Standby Switch
Brite Switch
Gain switch on R6
Gain control on R5
Tone control over C3
That would be about it, all being if i can install a effects loop at another time.
Maybes a couple of other mods, if the Hum has been sorted out on the combos, but the hum has been sorted on the head, i know that.
they always seem to have el84's and i've found i don't seem to like these tubes or not any amps i've had with them,
they always for me suffer the same probs - muddy, farty/blatty, overdrive at such low volumes you can't get a normal livingroom-volume clean if you're using humbuckers.
however, oddly enough the mesa 20/20 i have does not suffer any of that! it sounds to me like an el34-equipped amp.
so it can't all be the power tubes causing the problem, i dunno.
i swear that using a full size/watt amp that i LIKE, and mating to a thd hotplate, is simply the best thing i've ever heard, and until i hear better, this is what i'll be doing.
just my onion. :)
Rex, i aggree, if Epiphone did a VJ with a twin channel design, i think it would be a hell of design; 2 channels (2 x 12AX7/1 x EL84), 1 x Gain & Tone per channel, with a master volume would sell.
Altho it may cost a wee bit, posibly the cost of a Tiny Terror, but i feel it would sell.
I absoutly love the tone of EL84s for the record.
Don't forget the peavey mini triple X 40 watter. I think I'm gonna get that shit.