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Thanks lads! I have to admit I'd thought it was a bad thing as I'd been using EL84 amps for years (which never glowed blue ever) and was under the impression that it was a bad thing for a valve to glow blue. Phew!

Hi guys, Back in February I noticed that I thought the 6L6s in my Express 5:50 were probably due for replacement. The sound had got a bit mushy and lacked clarity and I noticed that both 6L6s were glowing blue in 50w mode and just one in 5w mode (because only one tube runs) when the amp was...

Fair enough - they were knackered anyway and had gone microphonic. I think they had been on the way out for a while as I have noticed the tone on the lead channel has brightened up considerably. Could be the different valves, could just be they're new!

Sorry - yeah, just a phrase I guess - it's almost the perfect amp except that it doesn't footswitch between modes. Having played with the switches on several occasions I don't see that there's any volume change really when switching through modes and actually, I prefer the 'crunch' to either of...

Went for a set of Winged Cs today from a good UK dealer - matched to similar specs to the STR-440s I took out of the Express. Very happy with the overall results!

I just thought it would be useful to be able to switch between modes to get different tones to maximise the sounds and opportunities to use those sounds in a live situation. There not really much time for altering settings on the fly, but if you can control the tone you get from an amp by using...

OK thanks for the info - have used JJ EL84 and was very impressed but just heard a few less favourable things about the 6L6 in Mesa.

I have an Express 5:50 and am almost completely sold on what it does apart from not being able to switch between modes (eg Clean/Crunch and Blues/Burn) with the footswitch. I'd be happy to live without footswitchable Contour as I tend to treat it as 'always on'. How simple would it be to route...

Hi guys. Searched through the forum to look for recommendations, info and advice on replacement 6L6GCs for my Express 5:50, but as there haven't been any recent posts on this specific amp, I thought I'd ask what with some tubes being discontinued and some new tubes being introduced. It has a...