hey myles!
I'm wanting to retube my Rivera M-100. It still has the original preamp tubes and a set of Groove Tubes GTEL34M with a 7 rating in it. I've had the amp about 15 years but haven't used it much in the past 10 years.
A little backstory on how I do use it. My brother and I write songs together and record them for fun in our home studio. He usually uses a Les Paul Standard with seymour duncan 59/jb, his ibanez prestige s-series, or his new favorite, my epiphone genesis with dimarzio's(i forget which ones, they were there when i got it.update: brother says they're virtual paf dimarzios). He plays through an Ampeg VL1002 and Tubeworks 4x12 with eminence speakers(again the model eludes me). I play an Epiphone et-290 with Kent Armstrong P-90's, a stock 68 telecaster, or my dad's 68 epiphone olympic II. I play my rivera through a crate(please don't laugh... most my friends berate me about it daily) 4x12 loaded with a pair each of celestion v1280 and gt70 speakers. Neither of us use pedals. We play stuff that is very "90's sounding" as it has been described to me.
So, what tubes could recommend to me? The amp hasn't been serviced in over ten years, so I'll be taking it my dad's amp tech to get everything in spec.
Also, I just noticed the inside 2 tubes on the rivera seem to be running hotter than the outside pair. Maybe that's cus i run it triode instead of pentode? i usually play the amp at it's lowest power setting with a 4ohm load.
