JJ Electronics Slovakian Vacuum Tubes:

Robert Herndon said:
Probably because you are not recording with amps in an isloation room at nearly full volume. I run a 90 watt Celestion Creamback in the 40watt DSL40C so I can run the amp wide open without the speaker breaking up.

When we were playing lots of outdoor venues with my JTM45 Full Stack, we were replacing tubes all the time.

SRV's amp tech also stated that a key, and often overlooked component of SRV's tone, was that he (like Gary Moore) ran almost full volume.....

Watch Gary roll his volume knob on an off, before and after each riff, in an effort to control his rig at full volume...

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For many of us, blasting a single watt amp going through a 12" or a multi-speaker cab can achieve this way cool tone effect. Unless you are playing in a big hall or arena it is not practical to play with volume at "balls to the walls."
 
Catmandue said:
For many of us, blasting a single watt amp going through a 12" or a multi-speaker cab can achieve this way cool tone effect. Unless you are playing in a big hall or arena it is not practical to play with volume at "balls to the walls."
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Thankfully, my music room is totally soundproofed. Like Gary Moore, my tone can only be achieved running flat-out....it just doesn't have the same feel and tone at lower volumes....
 
Catmandue said:
For many of us, blasting a single watt amp going through a 12" or a multi-speaker cab can achieve this way cool tone effect. Unless you are playing in a big hall or arena it is not practical to play with volume at "balls to the walls."
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I do play some venues at a very low volume, but it's not the same...nowhere near the same tone...it just cannot be captured at mortal volume levels....

Gary Moore's guitar tech, Graham Lilley, told me once, "Gary ran his amps full on. It was a signature element of his sound. Even in smaller clubs, like Charlotte Street, he ran them like that and rolled his volume off to control them...."
 
I think I have one JJ's 12AX7 that got slipped in with the EH's that Wade so graciously sent me.
I haven't tried the JJ's yet. I may put it in today and see if there's any discernible difference in tone. It'd be interesting to find out...
 
Robert Herndon said:
Thankfully, my music room is totally soundproofed. Like Gary Moore, my tone can only be achieved running flat-out....it just doesn't have the same feel and tone at lower volumes....
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Agreed, that's definitely where the best tone in any tube amp lies. But, it's just not practical for most of us to ever run our amps flat-out (how I envy your soundproof room!) so we have to get creative. I mean, even a 5-watt tube amp is absurdly loud for most settings if its dimed. The best most of us can do is find some balance using lower-watt amps, attenuators, etc. I can get great amp tone at low volume but the one thing that is impossible to recreate is speaker cone breakup and IMO that's where a lot of the tone of a loud amp is happening, and since that is the diaphragm is the moving the air in the room that's where a lot of the interaction between the amp and guitar is originating from.
 
gball said:
Agreed, that's definitely where the best tone in any tube amp lies. But, it's just not practical for most of us to ever run our amps flat-out (how I envy your soundproof room!) so we have to get creative. I mean, even a 5-watt tube amp is absurdly loud for most settings if its dimed. The best most of us can do is find some balance using lower-watt amps, attenuators, etc. I can get great amp tone at low volume but the one thing that is impossible to recreate is speaker cone breakup and IMO that's where a lot of the tone of a loud amp is happening, and since that is the diaphragm is the moving the air in the room that's where a lot of the interaction between the amp and guitar is originating from.
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Oh, man...I totally understand!!!!!

I have tried attenuators. I recently tried the OCD based on Don Felder's recommendation. Not bad, but still not 100%.....
 
gball said:
I mean, even a 5-watt tube amp is absurdly loud for most settings if its dimed.
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I have on occasion had my little 5 Watt Ibanez TSA5 cranked, and I recently ( a couple of days ago!) had someone who lives at the end of my street (about 80 meters) complain to the cops! In the middle of the day too!
 
But I did have the Tube Screamer engaged and was playing the intro to Thunderstruck, by AC/DC..... :dood:P:lol:
I had a card left in the door by the local cops the next day. I rang the number on it, and they told me that I have been making too much noise in a residential area, and to keep the noise down!
 
Alex_SG said:
But I did have the Tube Screamer engaged and was playing the intro to Thunderstruck, by AC/DC..... :dood:P:lol:
I had a card left in the door by the local cops the next day. I rang the number on it, and they told me that I have been making too much noise in a residential area, and to keep the noise down!
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Can they do that over there in the day time? Here after 10 PM is when the cops can get nosey.
 
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