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New Product Line Electro Harmonix Pedals and Effects

We have added more new products! We have launched our first group of guitar pedals and effects. They are from Electro Harmonix in New York City. We are an official authorised distributor of Electro Harmonix and to date we have been successfully selling their range of valves/tubes . These are branded Electro Harmonix, Tung Sol, Sovtek. Electro Harmonix have a huge range of pedals and effects.  We are introducing the range in phases as it […]

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Sovtek EL84 Matched Pair

Sovtek EL84 -A Customer’s Feedback

Here is a customer’s feedback on replacing the EL84’s with Sovtek EL84’s.  I have only removed the customer name I promised you an update on the Sovtek EL84  valves and how they handled in my Bugera V22. Well I have been using them for about three months now and I am absolutely delighted with the changes they brought to the Bugera Infinium V22’s tone and even ‘feel’.   To be frank I have never considered

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JJ ECC83S value three pack

Matched Balanced Pre-amp Valves

Matched Balanced Pre-Amp Valves How Are Pre-Amp Valves Matched/Balanced? You might not be aware but no valve manufacturer will test for matched balanced pre-amp valves.  So quality valve sellers invest in good quality test and characterisation equipment so that matched balanced pre-amp valves can be identified.  This means we have to individually test every pre-amp valve we have in our stock so that we can find the matched ones. This is a slow process as

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Vox AC30 CC1 Blowing fuses

All of us that have a valve / tube amplifier at sometime find our lovely favourite all valve amplifier suddenly starts blowing fuses. Sounds like a disaster has happened and out wallet is about to take severe damage. Has the amp gone to the great gig in the sky ? A Vox AC30 CC1 blowing fuses was what was presented to me. The Vox AC30 CC1 is a hybrid amp with the reverb and tremolo

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JJ value Pair ECC83S

Reverb Failure or is it something simpler?

I switched on my amp which had been working perfectly the day before. When I used the footswitch to turn on the spring line reverb, strange sounds came from the amp.  It was the sound of rumbling thunder with reverb. Not good ! So your first thought is the reverb unit is faulty.  Unlikely. My thoughts tuned to the schematic and decided that the ECC83 ( 12AX7) driving the reverb could have become noisy.  I

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Hand Matched JJ 6L6GC Pair

New Youtube Video on 6L6

Here is a short video under 2 minutes on 6L6 output valves and long plate versus short plate valves. This video shows something surprising about different 6L6 valves. A quick look a long plate and short plate ECC83 /12AX7 type valves is included too. Click here to watch on Youtube We started creating our Youtube channel only 2 weeks ago on 16th January 2016. Here is a link to the channel      

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Sovtek and Tung Sol valve selection

More New Products

It is February 2016 and we have added more new products, as part of our commitment to our customers to greater choice and they are all in stock in the UK. This month’s introductions are  : Two new suppliers of the 6V6GT which was highly favoured in the Fender Tweeds and amps like the Fender Deluxe Reverb. I have a vested interest here as I have a Fender Deluxe Reverb !  We are stocking the

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