Nos Tesla EL34 LOVE
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:32 am
I totally love these NOS Teslas...
Imagine, ive hunted tone for two years. I changd pups, switched the cables,
switched the preamp tubes, and i think i really got into important aspects for my tone.
One day my quad Teslas arrived. I install the tubes and i instantly had a sound,
that blow me away. I didnt expect the power tubes to have such a HUGE impact on the overall tone. Now even the triode mode of the amp sounded so nice, i could not believe my ears. My band also noticed
the difference and loves the tone.
Well, it must also be related to my amp, its a matamp GT1, huge amp with huge transformers and a really
fat, bassy, kinda wooly sound, but still very articulate, detailed, warm, chimey,- one of the best amps ive
ever heared and played... but i always disliked the stiffness in tone with the newer production power tubes.
When i installed the Teslas, the stiffness was gone. The tone really opend up and i got this early
beautiful breakup. The articulation also improved, but the amp was already really unforgiving, it does not hide any mistakes you make, i cant get the teslas to a compression that lets you sound like a better player. Everytime now when i listen to rehersal recordings im going crazy. Its like, ive found
the tonal heroin - some might think "this guy is crazy", - beliebe me im not. I installed some backup
quads and burned them in and the old tone appeared again, but all the sweetness from the Teslas, cant be
heared in any newer production tube i had. I cant imagine using any other power tube now. Well the JJ's have a nice crunchy sound too, but to me they are much darker and less detailed, also they dont have the magic of the teslas and are kinda unreliable.
It is hard to describe it. Im just going crazy, no matter what guitar i play with this amp and these tubes,
im going totally mad. Imagine ive really hunted for "the tone" for years... The lowend is so punchy and tight, while the mids really sing and stand out, the highs never get too brittle, its just heaven...You just stand there and cant stop playing. Every other sound gets "cheap" in comparison. The hunt is over...
One of the tubes recently got some problems and i need another tube. Anyone knows where i can still get
good spare tubes? I can set the bias for every single tube on this amp, some ampdocs told me this is the reason why i dont need a matched quad. Is this true?
Imagine, ive hunted tone for two years. I changd pups, switched the cables,
switched the preamp tubes, and i think i really got into important aspects for my tone.
One day my quad Teslas arrived. I install the tubes and i instantly had a sound,
that blow me away. I didnt expect the power tubes to have such a HUGE impact on the overall tone. Now even the triode mode of the amp sounded so nice, i could not believe my ears. My band also noticed
the difference and loves the tone.
Well, it must also be related to my amp, its a matamp GT1, huge amp with huge transformers and a really
fat, bassy, kinda wooly sound, but still very articulate, detailed, warm, chimey,- one of the best amps ive
ever heared and played... but i always disliked the stiffness in tone with the newer production power tubes.
When i installed the Teslas, the stiffness was gone. The tone really opend up and i got this early
beautiful breakup. The articulation also improved, but the amp was already really unforgiving, it does not hide any mistakes you make, i cant get the teslas to a compression that lets you sound like a better player. Everytime now when i listen to rehersal recordings im going crazy. Its like, ive found
the tonal heroin - some might think "this guy is crazy", - beliebe me im not. I installed some backup
quads and burned them in and the old tone appeared again, but all the sweetness from the Teslas, cant be
heared in any newer production tube i had. I cant imagine using any other power tube now. Well the JJ's have a nice crunchy sound too, but to me they are much darker and less detailed, also they dont have the magic of the teslas and are kinda unreliable.
It is hard to describe it. Im just going crazy, no matter what guitar i play with this amp and these tubes,
im going totally mad. Imagine ive really hunted for "the tone" for years... The lowend is so punchy and tight, while the mids really sing and stand out, the highs never get too brittle, its just heaven...You just stand there and cant stop playing. Every other sound gets "cheap" in comparison. The hunt is over...
One of the tubes recently got some problems and i need another tube. Anyone knows where i can still get
good spare tubes? I can set the bias for every single tube on this amp, some ampdocs told me this is the reason why i dont need a matched quad. Is this true?