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A twin would use 6L6 rather than 6V6 valves. You can populate it with 6V6s and get around half the power (no bad thing with a twin) and there'll be an impedance mismatch which would threaten the valves and the the OPT though I've never had a problem. Also 6V6s aren't supposed to take more than 350V Va whereas an SV twin will probably be 450V plus. There are some NOS 6V6 valves that will take the volts and sound superb. The Brimar CV511 and the French 1950s war department valves by Masda are up to it. The Brimars are real hooligan jobs and the French ones more creamy. Good 6L6s are harder to find. Sylvania or Philips are good. RCA better. Don't like any of the current production. I've wired my Twin (early silverface but converted to blackface schematic) so I can switch the speakers from parallel (4 ohm) to series (16 ohm). When in series I can run it with only two 6V6s, giving a 22W amp with a massive power supply, stupidly overspecced OPT and loads of speaker area (did I mention original Jensen P12Ns). Drop the OP valve HT with a power resistor to help with valve life and give some voltage sag compression. Sounds like God.

[quote name='molan' post='952178' date='Sep 10 2010, 07:44 PM']If you can carry a real Hammond around then it comes as no surprise that you also own an SVT & an 8x10 [/quote] And isn't it annoying when having carted either the SVT or the Hammond and Leslie (and sometimes the SVT AND the Hammond) up a fire escape to a gig, the guitarist turns up with some POS tranny amp, because "the Twin Reverb was too heavy". [quote name='molan' post='952178' date='Sep 10 2010, 07:44 PM']Have you thought about merging your bands - an experimental, psychedelic Americana band sounds like a lot of fun. . .[/quote] sounds like the Dead.

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