![Jimi Hendrix :jimi:](./images/smilies/hendrix.gif)
George built me a Woodstock replica in early 2011, and just recently I finally got a hold of about 7 or 8 different NOS preamp tubes and have been testing, testing, testing....
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Suffice to say, I have come closer to the Woodstock tone, but there is still a large gap...
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The combo of preamp tubes that seems to come closest to this tone that I have is a mullard in V1 a brimmer in v2 and an unidentified tube in v3 perhaps you can id for me (see photo)
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And I have all ri mullards in the power amp section.
The one obvious combination I have not yet tried is all NOS mullards in the preamp section. All NOS mullards in general!
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Something I haven't understood about the Hendrix Woodstock tone is WHY is it such a different tone than any of his other performances? I understand that it's outdoors, the univibe is changing the tone, the two amps are changing the impedance, but there seems to be something more to it going on inside of the amp....
The tone has a deep, fat, girth to it while at the same time being very bright, chimey and "clanky". That word "clank". It best describes the uniqueness of the tone to me, as if you're clanking two glass bottles together without them breaking. And there is A LOT of that clank in the tone.
I have never heard the combo, but my gut is starting to say that maybe, just maybe, there were 6550s power tubes with mullards in the pre amp section. What would this combo sound like?
My questions are, can anybody steer me in the right direction with preamp tubes? And what the hell do you think was going on with the amps at woodstock? What type of tone would 6550s with mullards in the preamp give? Would it in fact give something close to the woodstock tone?
Thanks
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