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>From: "ohsyrus" <>
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>To:
>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Reverb Tank Sound
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 03:56:44 -0000
>
>It isn't just reverb tanks and it isn't just Fender tube electronics
>where nos tubes can make a difference. I used to have a Fender DR RI
>that had all the classic symptoms of the RI's in terms of harshness,
>tightness, and so on. Put nos tubes in it, had it rebiased and it
>came much, much closer to sounding like an original. Recently
>acquired a Carr Rambler, which uses a different preamp layout, but I
>swapped out the 12ax7, with a '62 JAN CBS tube, the 12at7 with a
>Mullard 4024 and the reverb recovery 12ax7 with a GE 5751 and those 3
>simple little changes just made everything way more musical and
>pleasing to the ear. I would not have thought it so, but, there it
>is. I've often wondered why the old stock is so much more musical
>sounding--and why Sovtek and some of the other Euro fabricators
>cannot recreate that musicality. Groove tubes is now making 6l6's
>with original GE materials and equipment--maybe they will move on to
>make other new vintage tubes, and maybe some preamp tubes. I always
>thought progress meant you get better as time goes by. But they never
>got better than the early 60's, with tubes, amps, and guitars, it
>would seem. What the #$%^&*#???????? Why could't they see it--and why
>did they go wrong?
>
>
>--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "Brian Neal" <bneal@z...> wrote:
> > > From: Fred Pleasant [mailto:fredpleasant@y...]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:45 PM
> > > To: SurfGuitar101@y...
> > > Subject: RE: [SurfGuitar101] Reverb Tank Sound
> > >
> > > That's another question I have. When people talk
> > > about the NOS driving less hard does that mean it has
> > > less reverb and less drippy splashiness?
> > >
> >
> > No. In my experience, I could not turn up the controls to get that
>big wet
> > splashy sound without venturing into harshness territory. After
>switching to
> > NOS tubes (and again, I think the swapping of the 6V6 with a 6K6 is
>the big
> > impacter here) I had more range of useful reverb. I had to turn the
>controls
> > up more to get the same reverb as before, but the harshness was now
>gone.
>
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