Recommend me some tubes and a place to buy them

[ambient]

I've gotta VHT special 6 ultra with the stock tubes and I'm looking to see what some new glass can do.

 

I use it mostly on the cliche 'edge of breakup' and sometimes a little over so I don't need to get too saturated but would love as much volume as I can get. There's a bit of fizz in the background when using the low power (pentode?) mode so it'd be cool to get rid of that, but no biggie cuz I'm not using it so much.

 

At the moment it's got 2 12ax7 and a 6v6 so I need those but apparently it can take others like el34s, 6l6s and kt88s (as long as I let it cool down after a couple of hours or mod it) so I may try some of those too.

 

 

Plus I don't know where it get them in Japan so is there a good website that ships internationally?

 

Werd.

[stevics]

Guessing 12AX7 one for pre amp other for Phase inverter

 

I use Watford Valves (UK) I'm sure they ship internationally.

 

Pre amp (V1) try: http://www.watfordvalves.com/product_detail.asp?id=1382

 

Phase inverter (V2) try: http://www.watfordvalves.com/product_detail.asp?id=1307

 

I don't have an opinion on the 6L6.

[ambient]

Sweet, looks like they do ship internationally.

 

Actually, there's no phase inverter as it's a class A amp so both 12ax7s are in the preamp I think. Though I think one of them has something to do with buffering the fx loop.

 

Thanks for the suggestions.

[ambient]

[mmolteratx]

tctubes.com for reasonably priced old stock. They really are a step up from any of the current offerings, IMO. I've got a box full of Telefunkens that I use by default until I can do real tube rolling.

[LSDis4me]

I tried some JJ 6l6's in my Special 6 Ultra, but didn't really notice a difference. Overdrive pedal.

[ambient]

 

I tried some JJ 6l6's in my Special 6 Ultra, but didn't really notice a difference. Overdrive pedal.

 

 

Did you get an increase in volume moving from a 6v6 to a 6l6?