I had a two part question for you.. I recently bought a used
Mesa Recotverb series 2 50W 1 X12 combo.. I've been slowly
coaxing sounds out of it that I like.. I replaced the stock Mesa
EL-34s with JJs, as the amp was sold to me with an extra set.
I found the Mesa tubes to be harsher and found the JJ's to be richer and they really seemed to shine when I set my gain on the lead channel higher.. I'd roll back my pick up volume and get a whole range of sounds which was great.. the Mesa's didn't do this nearly as well for some reason.. Anyway.. I was playing a gig and my amp went dead the fuse blew and I gathered it was becasue a tube blew.. the sound guy swapped out the fuse but didn't change the tubes so the amp was barely producing an audible sound and it started smelling really burnt... Did I do
any major damgage from doing this?
The next day I swapped the old tubes out with new ones and the amp seems to work fine now, though I'm nervous to gig with it..
what would you suggest I do..
I also just had a question as to what tubes you would recommend for this amp to get nice crunchy dynamic AC/DC sounds to higher gain stuff.. I use a gibson LP classic stock..
Am I in error in thinking the Mesa Tubes just don't sound that good?.. Also any suggestions as far as preference between 6L6's or EL 34's?.. And what rating should I use on those?.. Sorry..
Feel free to ask Myles
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Hi Myles
I had a two part question for you.. I recently bought a used
Mesa Recotverb series 2 50W 1 X12 combo.. I've been slowly
coaxing sounds out of it that I like.. I replaced the stock Mesa
EL-34s with JJs, as the amp was sold to me with an extra set.
I found the Mesa tubes to be harsher and found the JJ's to be richer and they really seemed to shine when I set my gain on the lead channel higher.. I'd roll back my pick up volume and get a whole range of sounds which was great.. the Mesa's didn't do this nearly as well for some reason.. Anyway.. I was playing a gig and my amp went dead
the fuse blew and I gathered it was becasue a tube blew.. the sound guy swapped out the fuse but didn't change the tubes so the amp was barely producing an audible sound and it started smelling really burnt... Did I do
any major damgage from doing this?
The next day I swapped the old tubes out with new ones and the amp seems to work fine now, though I'm nervous to gig with it..
what would you suggest I do..
I also just had a question as to what tubes you would recommend for this amp to get nice crunchy dynamic AC/DC sounds to higher gain stuff.. I use a gibson LP classic stock..
Am I in error in thinking the Mesa Tubes just don't sound that good?.. Also any suggestions as far as preference between 6L6's or EL 34's?.. And what rating should I use on those?.. Sorry..
I'm really new at this.. Thanks for your help
V