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[fredy]

hi, my valves blew again the other day and i dont know what to get.
so far i have had svetlana EL34s with marshall ECC83s which had a glassey, defined tone but it lacked any balls.

then i tried JJ EL34s and electro harmonix ECC83s, these had a bit too buch high endand sounded harsh and brittle. I had a muddier tone too but the amps balls did grow a bit.

what im looking for is probably in the middle of these tones, thick, warm, glassey, defined and aggresive.

i have a marshall TSL100 by the way.
thanks.

[rjgtr]

Use SED (Winged C) EL34s and either Shuguang Chinese 12ax7s or JJ ECC83S for preamps. I like a combination 2 Chinese and 1 JJ. This will get you a good classic Marshall tone.

However, if you are "blowing up" tubes, you need the amp checked and bias set. This is not normal.

[fredy]

thery're not exploding, one of them went bright orange though a made funny noises. i did check the bias though anyway, it went from 70 to 200+ mV with in 5 mins, so i turnd it off before it did explode.

[rjgtr]

You've either got a really bad tube or a bad component in the amp. Time for it to visit the bench and get checked out.

[fredy]

will do, should i change the valves before i get it serviced? i dont want them to just change the vlaves for them to go again 2 months later.