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LPCustom

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  1. Hi Myles, I have an Epiphone Galaxie 10 amp that sounds pretty good but I can only describe it as a little "brittle". The highs are a little too sharp in my view. I'm told that replacing the Sovtek 12AX7 and 6L6 tubes can yield better creamier sound than the stock tubes. Can you recommend a good set of tubes as replacements? Thanks
  2. Hi Myles, I'm thinking of taking one of my Marshall Lead 12 cabinets and amp box and building a low power (5 to 10 watts) tube amp in that. Can you recommend a good low power tube amp kit? A PCB and plans is good enough to start with. I've thought about buying an Epiphone Galaxie 10 amp and moving the amp section into my Marshall cabinet and amp box then tapping in an eq. But I think I'd get more satisfaction from building the entire amp myself. I'm not interested much in additional circuits like reverb or tremolo. But it would be nice if it had a built in 3 band eq and gain control. A diode rectifier is fine. No need for a tube one. So far, I've turned up nothing like that. Thanks!
  3. Hi Myles! I have a question that someone else asked me over the weekend that I don't have an answer for. Marshall used to make some solid state amps based on the 3005 amp head. It's a 12 watt head and they made both a mini-stack (2 1x10 cabs) as well as a single 1x10 combo. I guess this is two questions. 1. Is it possible to convert these SS amps into tube amps. If so, would it make any sense to try it? I know you can't just replace the power transistors with tubes. But it might make a neat probject if it's possible. These are simple amps with no effects (well, some had reverb) and only one channel (low/high gain inputs). 2. Since the 3005 head could power two 1x10 cabs could the amp section of a 5005 (which is a 3005) be used to power a 2x10 cab? Or could it be used to drive a separate 1x10 cab along with the combo?
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