Recent content by bigben55

They're definitely not cheap, as they're built to order. I wanna say they were $189+$30 for shipping????

I've been playing for a while and have had many Celestion speakers. Greenbacks, Vintage 30, 12-65, Creambacks, Neo Creambacks, A type, V Type, and in general, the G12H30 70th Anniversary has been my favorite. But they were never perfect. Amp dependant, they either had too harsh of highs, or too...

Scumback makes the best classic Celestion type speakers. I emailed Jim w/Scumback after filling out his form and as usual, he was dead on right in his recommendation. I think he said, for an open back cab like mine, the H55 was the one if you primarily played single coil guitars, and the H55-PVC...

Three weeks since I last posted..... I started hearing some power tube degradation. It was that low muffled scratchy/white noise sound for a split second as a picked single note fades. It didn't start happening until I've bern playing loud for 10-15 min, ie once the tubes got good and hot. I...

I bought my amp new, back in May, so the current 5881's should have plenty of months left on them. I run 5881's in another amp as well, only have the 1 backup set, so I could use another. I used to have a Dr Z Z28 combo. In that amp, biased at 65% dissapation, the Tung Sol 6V6GT reissues only...

I have experience with the JJ E83CC AND ECC803S, like them both, prefer them both to the ECC83's. I was planning on getting another one of each for v1, v2. On other amps, I've used Sovtek 12AX7LPS for phase inverter slots, was gonna order one for the PRS. I'd assume the Tung Sol 5881s are...

Has anyone done any successful tube upgrading? If so, what sounded best? As a rule of thumb, on modern amps, I usually don't go all NOS tube crazy, as modern amps were mostly designed around using new production tubes, while, ie a 1966 Super Reverb was designed around hosing RCA and Sylvania...

Thx. I'm kinda thinking I like it better with pedals. No surprise, I have 3 pedalboards! Today, with a strat, I had the MV at 4, with both channel volumes at 6 so it was loud and not exactly clean. Cleanish, but dynamic via pick attack. Played 9 dirt pedals thru it: Wampler Plexi Drive Mini...

First post here. I've had an HDRX 20 now for about 3 months. I run it into a small 1×12 open back cab loaded with a Scumback H55 speaker. I play blues and rock, mainly with strats and teles. I have 3 other amps and a ton on pedals. My question to HDRX 20 owners, do you crank it into overdrive...