I am not sure what the sensitivity of the Wharfs are, but I know that Just curious how the Wharf at 30w and the vintage react with each other? I am looking for that green sound with more of a bottom edge.Īnyways, how does the vintage 30 sound in the amp?ĭoes the fact that its rated at 60w make much of a difference? The old Voxes used to blow up regularly because tubes changed value over time and the circuitry design was pretty poor. I believe some of those flaws have been fixed in reissues but there's no sense in tempting fate.I was actually thinking about putting a greenback and a G12H-30 I wouldn't experiment much with biasing them hotter or cleaner. Some Voxes use class A circuitry and are a bit different than an A/B amp when it comes to drive. Some tubes have higher milliamp ratings and you can bias many amps up do they drive cleaner or break up easier. Tube bias for the power tubes can make a difference. Where you hear the difference in tubes is with high end Hi Fi gear where the super highs and lows are heard. There you can hear the transparency much better but a guitar producing most of the frequencies between 500~4Khz, the bandwidth is just so limited the differences in tubes just can't be appreciated much. The reason is because guitar amps are midrange amps and speakers rarely produce any frequencies below 100Hz or above 6Khz. If all you need is a small change go for it. Just don't expect a big difference. Changing string brands can easily produce double or triple the difference in tonal changes than a tube substitute can have in most guitar amps. You can get higher SPL speakers and make the amp much louder, thinner speakers so you have more string touch come through, lower SPL to reduce the volume so it sounds better miced, and you have a wide variety of frequency responses for tonal shaping. That's where you get the biggest bang for the buck. If you want different tone you'd be better off trying different speakers. I've done all that kind of swapping around over the years and for some amp builds it makes a very small difference. I usually stick with matching tubes all around. Its going to be hard for you to notice a change, difficult for your band mates to hear any difference and the chances of your audience hearing a difference? They wont have a clue. The differences between tubes is very little. Kinda leaning towards option 2.Am I overthinking this and just should do something like option 1? Option 3 Maybe get crazy V1 JJ longplate ECC803S V2 Tung-Sol 12AX7 V3 Sovtek 12AX7LPS
Option 2 V1 JJ longplate ECC803S V2 JJ ECC83s V3 for PI consideration Sovtek 12AX7LPS Option 1 V1 JJ longplate ECC803S V2 and V3 JJ ECC83s So I'm starting to think these 3 options before I move into putting things into reality and thought I'd ask for some input I also read an article talking about the V3 PI and that they suggest a Sovtek 12AX7LPSīut I also keep hearing people saying to have a Tung-Sol over JJs So for the preamp tubes, I got advice for V1 to put like a JJ longplate ECC803S So for the power tubes I'm going to put in JJs EL84s and also putting in a GZ34 I'm in a band that plays regularly Northeast Boston and Brooklyn, so I want to make sure the pressence is there, you know? Bought a used Vox AC30CC2X recently and decided to replace the tubes as I think they're stock and the amp has like 3 years on playing on it
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