Category: AMPLIFIERS & RECEIVERS

The rectifier tube for smaller vintage amps like the 5F1 Fender Tweed Champ or the Tweed Deluxe 5E3. This small bottle version is the closest in performance and relaiblity to the vintage 5Y3GT of the ... ( read original story ...)

I built this "tubes only" amplifier from scratch. It's a quite long project of mine and it required a lot of time and patience to make and in this summary I'll show you how i made it. If you are inter... ( read original story ...)

Very low noise but slightly less gain than a regular 12AX7. Soft highs and edgy, dominant mids. Our recommendation when your amp has microphonic issues. This tube is used in many Fender amps made toda... ( read original story ...)

Warm, clean tone with creamy overdrive! PREMIUM selected quality for the most demanding amp stages. This tube works greatly for warm clean tones and creamy overdrive. We recommend this tube for the 1s... ( read original story ...)

This APPJ Gemtune PA1501A is the successor and upgrade of the well reviewed Miniwatt N3, which is also known as the PA0901A. It is in excellent condition and I am the original owner. It is about a yea... ( read original story ...)

But one thing most guitarists can agree on is that much of the glory of a great tube amp comes from the little glowing glass bottles that supply its power. Because there are so many conflicting opinio... ( read original story ...)

High-power amplifiers (HPAs) for RF/microwave applications were once automatically associated with electron-tube devices such as klystrons or traveling-wave tubes (TWTs). While those devices still pro... ( read original story ...)

Thanks to digital modeling, we can conjure up any and every flavor of guitar tone. But for true tone aficionados, it always comes back to tubes. Why is that? What’s so special about tubes? After all, ... ( read original story ...)