In the “old days” UK mains voltage was 240 volts AC and Ireland plus mainland Europe was 220 volts AC. With the tolerances back in those old days UK mains voltage could be as high as 264 volts AC, so running an amp that was set for 220 volts AC in the UK could mean that the amp was being run at 20% over voltage. That means your valves have a heater voltage that is […]
We have introduced more new valves which are all now in stock. We now have the more specialised valves that are used in Ampeg and Peavey guitar amps. The Electro Harmonix 12DW7 ( also known as the ECC832) is a double triode and in this valve one half is like an ECC83 ( 12 AX7) with a gain of 100 and the other half like an ECC82 ( 12AU7) with a gain of 20. Peavey
We do sell on Ebay and our own webshop.. After all if Ebay is good enough for Argos and Tesco it should be good enough for us ! Ebay is a convenient and its a click with Paypal and the goods are on the way. We are a premium power seller on Ebay so we do well on Ebay. Our user name is Vlavetubeguitaramps and we have an Ebay shop. There appears to be all
This is a summary on Brexit and valve pricing. Following the UK referendum on Brexit, we have seen a lot of turmoil in the stock market and currency markets. How does this affect pricing of valves and imported amps, guitars? Russian valves makes such as Tung Sol , Electro Harmonix, Sovtek have their base pricing in US $. JJ Electronic are in Slovakia and we buy from the factory in Euros. The Uk £ has
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
New Website New products Thank You We would like to thank all our customers for supporting us in our first year of operation in 2015. We do really appreciate that you chose to buy from us and we will also work to give you the best service we can. We know you have a choice and so we will continue to provide good service through 2016. New Youtube Channel : ValveTubeGuitarAmps.com We have just
Buying Valves Online things to Watch I like to look at other websites around the world which sell valves/tubes around the world so i can learn what they do well ! I did notice that there are traps around that can cost you money so I thought I would pass on some tips Here are our tips to save your hard earned cash online : Sometimes you see what looks like a low price.
New valve testers now installed. Click here and see how we are ensuring you get the best quality valves.
Genalex KT88, EH 6973 & Tung Sol 9591A in stock
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