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hey....that's interesting...
since I lve in Tilburg Holland, close to the Belgian border, which band were
you in victor, i might have seen you...?
and uhhh, jerry, where are you from? we can't possibly be that far apart!
Did i understand correct that you're in a surf band called 'the Ohmmen'?
maybe we can try to get something like a double gig or so. do you have a
web-site? i'll mail you as soon as ours is in the air, should be about a
month or so.
and btw, Belgium kicks ass! I go there every twoo weeks or so to get good
beer and cheap gas. And two dcd's very likely to be found in my cd-player at
any time are from the O'hara's and Jaune Toujours (check'm both out.
O'Hara's are a very sort-of-surf band with an awesome trumpet-player, Jaune
Toujours is more Folk-Klezmer-and what have you, but very very impressive)
regards, Wannes
ps, thanks for the tube info! it helped me as well. is there anything to say
about pre-amp tubes as well? I have a Fender 75 amp (a weird amp)and changed
the pre-amp tubes to (very crappy) Sylvania's. They give a wonderfull bright
crunch on the verb, but it's to overdriven in general. I was thinking about
getting cleaner tubes for the pre-amp, but keeping the sylvania's for the
tube driver..... would this make sense at all, and uhh....how do i figure
out which is what?
>From: "viktor423" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Amptubes question
>Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:19:33 -0000
>
>Changing tubes will definatly change the sound. I'm asuming the
>sovtek has EL34 power tubes ( or valves ), which yeild a sweetly
>compressed 'Marshall' type of sound. If you replace these with 6V6
>tubes, you'll get a more 'fender' sound. Of course, you'll have to
>have the amp rebiased by a pro when you change the tubes. Keep in
>mind however, the country of manufacture and brand are very
>important; stay away from chineese made tubes ( distorted and
>unmusical ). As for Russian made tubes, Svetlana seems to be the best
>brand, sovtek's are a little harsh. Groove tubes and Fenders are just
>repackaged chineese or russian tubes. Your best bet is to use N.O.S.
>('new old stock' ) RCA or General Electric. The phrase 'they don't
>make 'em like they used to' definatly applies here. Generaly, NOS
>tubes are better made, more musical, and very durable. J.A.N tubes
>(joint army and navy ) were manufactured for the military and are
>practicly indestructable. NOS tubes are available online from KCA
>(don't know the address, but just do a Google search for NOS tubes).
>By the way, where in Belgium are you from? I played at the Vort N'
>Vis in Ieper ( Ypres )a few times, I lived in the Netherlands for a
>while and toured Europe a lot, and my cousin used to live in Brussel,
>Anyway I hope this helps, Viktor
>--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "Jerry" <jerry.soetewey@b...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I got a question related to tube amps.
> >
> > I play on a 10 year old Sovtek MiG 100 head thru a Marshall 4 x 12 "
> > 1960 cabinet. Yep a bit too heavy for surf, but that's what I got.
> >
> > I think my tubes have had it, since the amp starts to make strange
> > noises from time to time while playing. The tubes also don't lit up
> > equally as they used to.
> >
> > Now, can I replace the tubes by other (of course I can) but would it
> > affect the sound in any way? Let's say If I put in Fender tubes,
>would
> > the sound differ from the Sovtek tubes? And if so, in which way?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jerry S. from Belgium "the Ohmmen"
>
