[Axis29]

I'm a clean tone guy. Always have been. Funny thing, I had a Mesa Mark IV for a long time, but was never completely satisfied with the cleans. I had a Gibson and it was nice and creamy, the gain channels were usually running very little gain, just a little breakup.

Then I picked up my DRRI and life is so much more complete. I have discovered the volume knob on my guitars. I now run them backed off to about 7 or so to clean up the sound, but ring 'em up when it's time to step out and solo. Just a little bit of the hair of the dog, as it were.

I tired a 12at7 in my DRRI in V2, it sounded very nice, but I had to go all the way to 8.5 to get ANY breakup. if I played bigger venues or Jazz all the time, I mighta stuck with that tube in there, but I went back to my JJ ecc83. Though I stuck one of them 12at7's in V1 so I can switch over to the normal channel and play some serious clean music sometimes! I may have to try a 12ay or 12au7 in there instead.