EL-34s in a Lonestar?

[Maury]

Anyone try EL-34s in their Lonestar yet? What were you hoping to acheive? Thumbs up? Down?

 

[MONGO]

yes yes yes. They rock. Although I use 6l6 for most tones in my lonestar my other one is loaded with 34's and has a unreal dirty channel tone. Its way better than the aweful stiletto ace which I find nosiy an harsh. The lonestar with 34s is a fantastic amp

 

[Maury]

thanks mongo.... how do they affect the cleans?

 

[plan-x]

I preferred the 6L6's in mine. The EL34's had some chime that sounded nice, but lacked the fullness that I've grown accustomed to.

 

[Dreads]

I posted a couple of clips here a while back... this is me playing on my LSC with EL-34'bstr (Rubys),
a 48th Street Custom Guitar with a vintage DiMarzio Super Distortion that I got back in the day from DiMarzio as a gift.

I don't have any Pedals/Effects in line here.. this is Guitar to Amp. I love the amp with these el34's in it.
I was pretty much hoping to achieve what I got.. Kah-Runch... Diggit, a big Thumbs up.

Lonestar/el34 :lol:

 

[jenks10]

I have an LSC Head. Here's what I did..

Purchased a Integrated Quad set from Eurotubes (2 each, JJ 6L6's and EL34's with matching gain). I plugged the 6L6's in the two center sockets and the EL34's in the two outside sockets. Put the selector switch to EL34.

I set the Clean channel to 100W and the Drive channel to 50W. That way I get a wonderful clean channel with the advantages of both tube types and a great Drive channel with all the EL34 crunch, etc.

I've used it on three gigs so far, with no issues at all.

 

[MONGO]

He's right 100 watts clean and 50 dirty is a nice way to do it but cleans are better 6l6 but I dont use one. I use two swicth between them. Its acaully a head on top of a combo with 34's and the combo with 6l6's. So I swicth via head swicther tonebone and have wonderful tones that blow away the ace I had and I think the c-90 speakers make a big low end thump and smooth highs with the open back. I prefer the tone to the closed back

 

[Maury]

interesting stuff guys - thanks! actually I don't know that I need/want a change in the distortion channel, I just want more clean snap / punch / bark (NOT clipping or brown-out) on the clean side. I wish I would have recorded my ROV before I sold it... when set to "pushed" the clean channel had THE sound I love. D'oh.

 

[PC Biz]

I posted a couple of clips here a while back... this is me playing on my LSC with EL-34'bstr (Rubys),
a 48th Street Custom Guitar with a vintage DiMarzio Super Distortion that I got back in the day from DiMarzio as a gift.

I don't have any Pedals/Effects in line here.. this is Guitar to Amp. I love the amp with these el34's in it.
I was pretty much hoping to achieve what I got.. Kah-Runch... Diggit, a big Thumbs up.

Lonestar/el34 :lol:

Excellent tone! Thanks for posting. I played a Lonestar once in a store, and I really like the envelope Mesa put on this one.

 

[Dreads]

my pleasure! The Lonestar is a great amp. I have been happy with it so far. I think they should have a sticky type thingy with these types of clips. I see this question about the lonestar-with-el34's pop up every now and again... plus questions about the sound of other amps/configurations. It's much better than typed descriptions of the sound you'll likely get in my [not so humble] opinion. Cheers.