![]() But honestly - I just loved these with a P-90. Sounded great with a lap steel too - I had an old Oahu Tonemaster then. Try it with a Junior or some other solidbody with a P-90. I find a hair of compression often helps keep these little amps from bottoming out when cranking them. But these amps also took a simple clean boost just great - either a straight clean preamp or perhaps a compressor with some gain & not much compression. ![]() Some older 50s NOS 12AX7A tubes worked well also. The very raw-sounding and midrangy Chinese 12AX7A tubes that Ruby used to supply 10+ years ago sounded good. I used the highest gain tube I could find. There's not a lot of gain in the preamp section of these. I think I had a Celestion Vintage 30 in one of mine. Once I gave them a good going over, replaced electrolytics, and possibly subbed a good-quality, high-efficiency speaker with some balls, mine were really nice. Like Dan, I wouldn't put a Torres mod on anything, but I think I'd leave this amp stock anyway. ![]() It should be louder and ballsier than a Champ, maintain some of that silverface sparkle, but have more midrangey tube distortion from the cathode bias. Properly set up, they should be, more or less, like a cross between a silverface Champ and a tweed Deluxe. Two cathode-biased tubes run push-pull with a transformer phase-inverter, it's a strange beast. These are different than anything else made by Fender during the 70s. Those are some primitive-sounding tubes, used on some early amps - I think some of the early, small Gibsons used them. I like both versions, but you're right - the 6AQ5 version definitely has more balls. One of the best little amps I've ever played through for just plain balls with definition. I've had both kinds, and I wish I had one now.
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