Hello all
I've recently got an Express 5:25 1x12 which came with a noisy tube in the v1 position, which I've currently just put a spare EH 12ax7 in for the moment to get rid of the noise. The rest of the tubes are from what I understand just to be the stock Mesa tubes so I thought I'd have a look to see if any different tubes would be worth looking into.
Searching around, there seems to be a general view that a good starting point is
V1 High Gain JJECC83
V2 Tungsol 12AX7
V3 Penta 12AX7
V4 Shuguang 12AX7 9th gen
V5 Sovtek LP/LPS
To which I've got a couple of questions
1) I'm in the UK and can't find anywhere here that stocks Penta tubes, is there one that's similar to this that I could use?
2) Is the high gain JJ tube different to the 'normal' one?
3) Has anyone had any experience with the Golden Dragon 12ax7?
TIA
I've recently got an Express 5:25 1x12 which came with a noisy tube in the v1 position, which I've currently just put a spare EH 12ax7 in for the moment to get rid of the noise. The rest of the tubes are from what I understand just to be the stock Mesa tubes so I thought I'd have a look to see if any different tubes would be worth looking into.
Searching around, there seems to be a general view that a good starting point is
V1 High Gain JJECC83
V2 Tungsol 12AX7
V3 Penta 12AX7
V4 Shuguang 12AX7 9th gen
V5 Sovtek LP/LPS
To which I've got a couple of questions
1) I'm in the UK and can't find anywhere here that stocks Penta tubes, is there one that's similar to this that I could use?
2) Is the high gain JJ tube different to the 'normal' one?
3) Has anyone had any experience with the Golden Dragon 12ax7?
TIA