R_ADKINS80
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Well, I just put my Doug's tube combo in my Triple last night. Everything sounds ******* great but I Had to ditch the V1 Tungsol in favor of the one Russian 2 Mesa tube I had in it. The tungsol is just way too hairy in V1 for me. The reas of the tube combo is, in order from v2-5: ballanced Mullard, Penta Labs, Shuguang 9th gen and a balanced Sovtek LPS.
My stock layout was the russian 2 in v1 and the rest were Chinese mesa tubes. The gain was waaaaay to fizzy and a little cold sounding. It also didn't have the best low end response either, was rather trebely and mid peaky.
My power tubes are TAD 6L6GC STR's and I run the 5U4 big bottle rec tubes (I have a set of EH 5U4GB's on order that should be here tomorrow)
So in short....I got 1900 in the head......and a couple hundred more dollars worth of tube experimenting to make is not sound like a Marshall and alot closer to my buddy's older 3ch Triple. My STR440's sounded like ass, no low end at all even after a 3 day burn in without shutting the amp off. And my Chinese preamp tubes sounded just as bad. "Tone is very subjective" according to Mesa.....but the more Mesa tubes I yanked the better it sounded.....and now it actually sounds like 2 Triple Rectos in the room over at my buddies jam room, and not 1 Triple and 1 Marshall (mine sounded like a marshall next to his).
Sorry for the novel.....Finally feel like I have an amp that was worth what I paid for it.
My stock layout was the russian 2 in v1 and the rest were Chinese mesa tubes. The gain was waaaaay to fizzy and a little cold sounding. It also didn't have the best low end response either, was rather trebely and mid peaky.
My power tubes are TAD 6L6GC STR's and I run the 5U4 big bottle rec tubes (I have a set of EH 5U4GB's on order that should be here tomorrow)
So in short....I got 1900 in the head......and a couple hundred more dollars worth of tube experimenting to make is not sound like a Marshall and alot closer to my buddy's older 3ch Triple. My STR440's sounded like ass, no low end at all even after a 3 day burn in without shutting the amp off. And my Chinese preamp tubes sounded just as bad. "Tone is very subjective" according to Mesa.....but the more Mesa tubes I yanked the better it sounded.....and now it actually sounds like 2 Triple Rectos in the room over at my buddies jam room, and not 1 Triple and 1 Marshall (mine sounded like a marshall next to his).
Sorry for the novel.....Finally feel like I have an amp that was worth what I paid for it.
