Congrats on the amp ! They kinda have my attention because of the low used prices. Here's where I get confused & maybe I'm missing your point on your post. I guess this NAD post was about tubes not how the amp actually sounds ? If your running a 4cm the HX to a reactive load & back & using IR's at that point does it actually matter what amp is amplifying the processed guitar signal ? I'm not trying to be controversial I'm just not familiar with using IR's & clicked on the post because of the Egnater 15 title.
Not at all! In fact, the post was about the amp, and how I was pleasantly surprised by it. Sorry about confusing people with tubes, but my point was that lowering the gain in V1 (as well as V3) improved the tone significantly - to my ears. Also the point about 4CM and IRs was just to emphasize that there is no physical speaker to affect the tone, just the IRs - which, in my opinion, can be very realistic, but what you're hearing is what you would hear in the control room of a studio and not the guitar cabinet. About 4CM, it absolutely matters what amp you use, because the idea of 4CM is that you don't necessarily put all the effects in front of the amp. In my case, I have an overdrive pedal (model of a Zendrive) in front of the amp that I have disabled, because I rarely need that level of OD. My other two effects - delay and reverb - happen after the IR, so think of it as recording an amp completely dry, then adding effects later on the board. And even then, I don't saturate the tone with effects, but only use enough for a little ambience. Make sense?
Thank you, kind sir. I'm glad you mentioned other power tubes, because, while I'm partial to the 6L6 sound myself, I keep reading about how harmful the high current draw could be to the power transformer. Obviously, you have had no issues, so I'm encouraged! About the Sovteks, that was really my misperception of current production tubes. I had always bought into the NOS myth, but my experience with the RCA 6V6 tubes - on previous occasions as well - has not necessarily demonstrated any kind of superiority. So, I was obviously wrong about the Sovteks too!
Thanks for that! I don't post often enough to get hip to the site's "features". I'm starting to believe you about the NOS thing, although one might argue that my 70-year-old ears are just not up to snuff any more!@Srini
NOS tubes are often a smoke screen. The absolute best thing they reliably do is separate the buyer from their money.
The reason why your earlier posts would hang your browser is probably because you added smileys; emoticons often cause this site's server to go into French Fry Pertater mode.
You will find a lot of internet myth surrounding the Tweaker series. Especially concerning transformer failures. To be fair, the Tweaker 40 amps had enough of them fail that I don’t feel uncomfortable calling it a known issue. To be sure they didn’t all go down, but enough of them did to realistically acknowledge it was a problem.
That's great to know, thanks! If I'm not mistaken, EL34s draw a much higher current than 6L6s, am I wrong? If so, perhaps I should be safe with, say, 5881s?
I don’t know. I’m not technical at all. I was just told early on that I could run any octal power tube I wanted in there. So I did. I tried 6V6 and 6L6. EL34 were great. GT makes a tube I really like. It’s like hot rodded EL34 but with more headroom. They call it the E34L. That’s what I finally settled on. I gigged it with those tubes for years. Hundreds of gigs. It always worked fine.
I just had something similar happen on Strat Talk. I'd click "reply" and it would just show a red line like it was thinking and wouldn't make it official. Copy your post, hit refresh, and then paste it if it's gone and try again.
