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Originally Posted by joshuaaewallen
Hey There solarburnDSL50,
Could you tell me about your rig and what you like to play?
I see in your signature you list your tube compliment as:I am curious about these tubes and why you chose them...
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Well I love playing the blues, classic rock and up to hard rock. Classic stuff I like are early Sabbath, Iron Maiden, ACDC, early Rush, early ZZ, Molly Hatchet, Nugent, GNR etc. You know, mostly Marshall tunes he he.
I like my amp to be harmonically rich, singing feed back, responsive to touch with good sustain and articulate. Can clean up with guitar volume roll off. So I look for tubes that help create these things in my DSL50.
The preamps I'm using now are a nice fit for what I want especially from clean to midgain tones. The CV4024 has a gain factor of 60 compared to a 12Ax7 at 100. It made the gain more articulate and didn't neuter the gain of the amp by any means. The AC5's just sound good and the LPS makes a great PI.
With this combo the amps EQ actually works when adding highs, mids and lows. That's another tell tale sign of having a grouping of tubes that work well with my amp and what I'm after.
To finish off my tone stack I always boost to get a better texture of gain, not more gain. Mostly to add some body to the tone that the amp isn't capable of producing on its own. That's how I roll my DSL and I love the amp.