Mesa Owners In Here!

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1994 Mesa Tremoverb in need of a full retube. For those that own a Tverb, What tubes for the cathode followers and reverb? Was thinking sovtek long plates.

Recommend power tube combinations that have worked with your dual rec's please! Open-ness of 6550's but the character of 6L6's. Was thinking EH 6CA7's?

Am I on the right track? :D
 
Been so long I can't even remember what I ran for preamp in a non verb rec.

Find a tube chart for your amp, if you don't have a manual. Remember something about V2 or V3 really making a deference.


Anyways, don't think I'd get too carried away with long plates. Maybe one, but thinking a bunch could get microphonic? Most amps it's hard to beat playing around with V1, and the rest Chinese.


SED's were great, 6l6 or el-34. Nowadays, who knows? The EH6CA7's are great tubes, but haven't heard them in a Rec.

If you could get pairs to match, I'd go a pair of Tung-sol EL-34B with a pair of Gold Lion KT-77. Tung-Sol for the bottom, and GL for the top end.

For a quad, I'd guess the EH6CA7 would be a good choice. Especially for the price.
 
Cathode follower is V3.

After experimenting I've gone back to using stock Mesa power tubes.
 
No manual and no footswitch. Just now getting around to re-tubing it.

the long plates would be able to handle the B+, so going microphonic with a heater filament coming loose from overheating shouldn't be a problem. But tubes will be tubes - you never can tell based on the batch that you get.

I forgot about SED's, but i know that i can't afford winged C anything. Prices have skyrocketed. Does Tung-Sol make a 6CA7 or KT77?
 
some dude":1v0i3elp said:
Cathode follower is V3.

After experimenting I've gone back to using stock Mesa power tubes.
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Thanks for the info.
 
Don't think there's any Tung-Sol 6CA7 or 77's?


People like their 6550's.
 
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