From jjmcs49@yahoo.com Tue Nov 09 15:17:01 2004
Subject:Re: Why did Hammond get the virtual B3 right?


If you are an adventurous soul, find a pair of old 12AX7A tubes from
the 50's or 60's era like Raytheon or GE and try them. I think the
new tubes like Sovtek or Ei (these are what came in my XK-3) from
Yugoslavia seem to be brighter than the older tubes. I tried a pair
of Sovtek 12AX7LPS tubes, and they "overdrove" sooner than the Ei
and sounded more like a guitar distortion to me. The Raytheon tubes
I have in it now might not overdrive as much, but they don't seem to
lose any / as much of the lower frequencies. It sounds to me like
there is more organ in the overdiven sound.

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