Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - Tom C. - 10:08 28-08-08
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I've had this amp for going on 3 years now and it still has the stock tubes
in it. What are your suggestions for replacement tubes? It has 3 12AX7s and
4 EL84s. I've heard good things about JJ power tubes, and I also have the
recommendations from The Blue Guitar site for this amp, but I'd like to hear
from the group. Thanks.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - howldog - 10:30 28-08-08
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:08:21 -0400, "Tom C." <nospam@nospam.nul>
wrote:
>I've had this amp for going on 3 years now and it still has the stock tubes
>in it. What are your suggestions for replacement tubes? It has 3 12AX7s and
>4 EL84s. I've heard good things about JJ power tubes, and I also have the
>recommendations from The Blue Guitar site for this amp, but I'd like to hear
>from the group. Thanks.
>
I use JJs. They run hot, but work fine.
get toms tube tamer off Ebay too.
that will help a little.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - RichCI - 11:07 28-08-08
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On Aug 28, 10:08=A0am, "Tom C." <nos...@nospam.nul> wrote:
> I've had this amp for going on 3 years now and it still has the stock tub=
es
> in it. What are your suggestions for replacement tubes? It has 3 12AX7s a=
nd
> 4 EL84s. I've heard good things about JJ power tubes, and I also have the
> recommendations from The Blue Guitar site for this amp, but I'd like to h=
ear
> from the group. Thanks.
I recently retubed my Mesa with Tung-Sol reissue 12AX7s and also use
them in my Blues Junior. They're fairly bright sounding which is good
if you're into doing a more high gain thing which works well in the
Mesa but are bit brittle sounding in the Blues Junior (a pretty bright
sounding amp to begin with). I put JJ EL84s in the Blues Junior for
power and they help balance the bright sounding preamp tubes when you
crank up the amp a bit but do nothing for it at low volume. You'll
probably need to experiment a bit or put more weight on the opinions
of people who own the same amp that you do and have replaced the tubes.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - White Spirit - 11:26 28-08-08
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RichCI wrote:
> I recently retubed my Mesa with Tung-Sol reissue 12AX7s and also use
> them in my Blues Junior. They're fairly bright sounding which is good
> if you're into doing a more high gain thing which works well in the
> Mesa but are bit brittle sounding in the Blues Junior (a pretty bright
> sounding amp to begin with).
The Tung Sol 'reissues' sound okay but they're not really much different
from the EH 12AX7s they're based on - just more expensive. My favourite
choice of preamp valve for bright amplifiers is a Chinese ECC83.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - Grip - 11:49 28-08-08
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"Tom C." <nospam@nospam.nul> wrote in message
news:6iytk.19464$vX2.4696@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I've had this amp for going on 3 years now and it still has the stock
> tubes in it. What are your suggestions for replacement tubes? It has 3
> 12AX7s and 4 EL84s. I've heard good things about JJ power tubes, and I
> also have the recommendations from The Blue Guitar site for this amp, but
> I'd like to hear from the group. Thanks.
>
I've got a small Mesa that uses 4X EL84. I retubed every so often keeping
the originals as backup. I've never worn out a tube but swapped because I
had always thought it a good thing to do periodically. This amp is of 93
vintage, bought it new when they introduced it. For grins about a year ago I
put the old original tubes back in and it reminded me why I love this amp,
so in they stay....if it ain't broke don't fix it?
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - RichCI - 12:05 28-08-08
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On Aug 28, 11:26=A0am, White Spirit <wspi...@homechoice.co.uk> wrote:
> RichCI wrote:
> > I recently retubed my Mesa with Tung-Sol reissue 12AX7s and also use
> > them in my Blues Junior. =A0They're fairly bright sounding which is goo=
d
> > if you're into doing a more high gain thing which works well in the
> > Mesa but are bit brittle sounding in the Blues Junior (a pretty bright
> > sounding amp to begin with).
>
> The Tung Sol 'reissues' sound okay but they're not really much different
> from the EH 12AX7s they're based on - just more expensive. =A0My favourit=
e
> choice of preamp valve for bright amplifiers is a Chinese ECC83.
I agree. The original tubes in my Blues Junior were EH and I didn't
notice much of a difference between those and the Tung-Sols. It might
be dependent upon the amp though.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - White Spirit - 12:29 28-08-08
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RichCI wrote:
> I agree. The original tubes in my Blues Junior were EH and I didn't
> notice much of a difference between those and the Tung-Sols. It might
> be dependent upon the amp though.
I think the only difference is that the EH ones have a square getter
whereas the Tung Sol has a halo type. The EHs seem to have more gain.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - Les Cargill - 17:07 28-08-08
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Tom C. wrote:
> I've had this amp for going on 3 years now and it still has the stock tubes
> in it. What are your suggestions for replacement tubes? It has 3 12AX7s and
> 4 EL84s. I've heard good things about JJ power tubes, and I also have the
> recommendations from The Blue Guitar site for this amp, but I'd like to hear
> from the group. Thanks.
>
>
I have vanilla Groove Tubes in my Blues Deluxe, and they are
just fine.
IMO, preamp tubes will have more to say about Teh Tone because
they are earlier in the process.
--
Les Cargill
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - dEeNeR dAvE - 22:51 28-08-08
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"Tom C." <nospam@nospam.nul> wrote in message
news:6iytk.19464$vX2.4696@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I've had this amp for going on 3 years now and it still has the stock
> tubes in it. What are your suggestions for replacement tubes? It has 3
> 12AX7s and 4 EL84s. I've heard good things about JJ power tubes, and I
> also have the recommendations from The Blue Guitar site for this amp, but
> I'd like to hear from the group. Thanks.
Anyway, back to the O.P.s question.......I used JJs in mine on the
recommendation of several sources. I love the way they sound, yes they DO
run hot, but worth it IMHO.
Here's the configuration I used, it's a quote from Eurotubes website.
https://ssl.eurotubes.com/cart/index.php?page=view_products&category_id=8&sub_category_id=33
"A matched quad of the JJ EL84's in a hotter grade along a standard ECC83S
in V1, an ECC832 in V2 to drop the gain and give a very natural blues tone
and a graded ECC83S with a high current output in V3. These give a smoother
tone that is great for Blues."
Notice the reduced gain tube in V2, there's the key. If it's a "blues" tone
you're after, this is the ticket, my .02 worth.
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Re: Retubing my Peavey Classic 30 - Tom C. - 08:45 29-08-08
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Brilliant idea, kitting the tubes for a specific purpose. Thanks for this
link.
"dEeNeR dAvE" <nunya@biz.com> wrote in message
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> Anyway, back to the O.P.s question.......I used JJs in mine on the
> recommendation of several sources. I love the way they sound, yes they DO
> run hot, but worth it IMHO.
> Here's the configuration I used, it's a quote from Eurotubes website.
> https://ssl.eurotubes.com/cart/index.php?page=view_products&category_id=8&sub_category_id=33
>
> "A matched quad of the JJ EL84's in a hotter grade along a standard ECC83S
> in V1, an ECC832 in V2 to drop the gain and give a very natural blues tone
> and a graded ECC83S with a high current output in V3. These give a
> smoother tone that is great for Blues."
>
> Notice the reduced gain tube in V2, there's the key. If it's a "blues"
> tone you're after, this is the ticket, my .02 worth.
>
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