Recent content by Feral McElreavy

YEAH BUDDY

I contacted PRS support asking where the cathode follower position is, and they responded with "..the amp and does not have a cathode follower." Does that seem correct?

Thanks for the heads--I will contact them ASAP.

Why leave them there if they're new? Which they are. The 12ax7 str. I'm an Adam Jones tone fan(Tool). I really like his 10,000 days tone. I play with a lp custom with an sh4 jb that I put an alnico 8 magnet into.. because I'm obsessed.

I have the 2 mullards in the lead gain (v3+v4), a tung-sol in the clean gain, and a tung-sol in the input(v1). Any suggestions as far as moving them around goes?

2 tung-sols and 2 mullards, and then replaced the JJ's in the phase inversion and effects loop positions.

I changed my tubes last night right before practice, and HOLY SHNIKES! It sounds amazing. Much more note separation and articulation while also being much more aggressive. There's a very noticeable volume increase as well-- which I did not expect(nor need). And this is just the preamp tubes...

Awesome! Well, I believe there's been an increase in microphonics, and I'm picking up radio stations with this amp, which I've read are symptoms of bad tubes. I'm also interested in hearing what the archon will sound like with some mullards and tung-sols in the preamp/poweramp. As far as the...

Hey all, I'm a noob to the interior guts of these tube amps, but I'm changing my 2014 100 watt archon's preamp tubes later today. After researching as much as I can, it sounds like power tubes are too dangerous for me to do alone, so I'm sticking to just the preamps. I'll have a tech do the...