EF86 Modern Classic tones
Posted: Mon 01/09/23 11:22 am
Hello everyone, long time lurker, new joiner - first post here
I've been toying with the idea of building my own for a while and getting very close to pulling the trigger now. I'm keen to go down the full DIY route rather than kits as there is plenty of layouts and resources on here for me to be able to put together something that should fit my needs.
One design that caught my eye is the Modern Classic with the EF86 on the Normal channel as per this thread: viewtopic.php?t=25606
As a lover of Vox tones as well as retro Marshall I'm hoping that might bring a touch of that character and, more generally, simply provide a fairly different sounding pair of channels. I'd probably look to go TMB rather than trem on the second channel.
My question here is, how different would the EF channel be compared to the 12AX7 TMB one?
And lastly, am I looking at biting on a little more than I maybe can chew for my first project and should perhaps look at a lite IIb/superlite TMB?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Alex
I've been toying with the idea of building my own for a while and getting very close to pulling the trigger now. I'm keen to go down the full DIY route rather than kits as there is plenty of layouts and resources on here for me to be able to put together something that should fit my needs.
One design that caught my eye is the Modern Classic with the EF86 on the Normal channel as per this thread: viewtopic.php?t=25606
As a lover of Vox tones as well as retro Marshall I'm hoping that might bring a touch of that character and, more generally, simply provide a fairly different sounding pair of channels. I'd probably look to go TMB rather than trem on the second channel.
My question here is, how different would the EF channel be compared to the 12AX7 TMB one?
And lastly, am I looking at biting on a little more than I maybe can chew for my first project and should perhaps look at a lite IIb/superlite TMB?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Alex