Comments on: Grudge Match: 6L6 Vs. EL34

By: JACK

JACK — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:59:45 +0000

Hey “Slim Metal”,

So how y’a figure Marc Johnson sounds like a “fricking prick”? Did I miss something? Please, tell me you guys are best buds and you were just having some fun – or, let us know how it is that he sounds ….as you say?

By: JACK

JACK — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:19:17 +0000

hi guys – testing

By: Time Cop

Time Cop — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:13:06 +0000

Good article. Yeah there are slight differences in tubes, no one doubts that, but they are almost unnoticeable especially to people in the audience. Sometimes “audiophile” is just another word for “sucker”.

By: SlimMetal

SlimMetal — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:08:07 +0000

This Marc Johnson sounds like a fricken prick. . . . That being said, I have played different tubes side by side and I have to say that at least to my untrained ears, the difference is nominal at best. EL-34′s to 6L6′s in the same amp is hardly no differense. Could it be the set-up of the amp it’s self. Because all of the electronics themselves (minus the tubes) are identical. How much would that dictate what the sound is like.

By: clifford wright

clifford wright — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:13:28 +0000

Strewth! A bit of sense at last.
I have worked on all kinds of amps for many years and it has always amazed me that a musician will go for the most distorted (especially 3rd harmonic) amp.
I have cleaned up a couple of 6L6 tube amps and been told in no uncertain terms to put it back to the original 20 watts @ 10 % distortion from the 0.2% 35 watts I had improved it too.
Folks with ears like that are in no position to judge amplifier quality!
BTW that is measured THD, I have the equipment to test down to ~0.0006%.
The output tubes are FAR less important than their bias conditions and the overall amp and power supply design.
I have also worked on amps rated 300 W RMS that collapsed @ 50 watts @100 Hz simply because the power supply was badly designed.

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:07:44 +0000

I like what you’re trying to do here, and I agree, tube selection (like most guitar tone topics) is a subjective thing. While in my studio on the good monitor speakers I can hear differences in all three tubes, mostly what I hear is the compressed low quality You Tube audio. Not much in the free internet video space you can do about it, but I’d love to hear a minute of each tube in a higher quality audio format.

Thanks for adding to the tone discussion!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:13:44 +0000

This article is written by an idiot. Next!

By: dean rosile

dean rosile — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:12:11 +0000

which tube is which? i cant find it on here

By: Horhay

Horhay — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:30:18 +0000

I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years but just picked up my first tube amp a a couple weeks ago, TTK videos helped me pick the Randall RM100. Now I don’t have a lot of experience with tube amps but to me number 2 sounded most like what I would want to get out my guitar. Obviously everyone wants something different but to me I could hear a difference and I liked 2 the best before reading which one that was.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:51:16 +0000

There is a difference in sound between the 6l6 and the el34 in this video, the nos vs the el34….not so much to me. Now a good shootout could be el34 vs kt77