40hz Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) Evening gents Looking for a replacement 12ax7 preamp valve for myTrace, I'm looking for something a lot hotter, I know being a single 12ax7 I'm not going to get into proper saturated distortion territory but something that breaks up quite musically would be good. Any ideas or suggestions? Cheers Edited January 14, 2015 by 40hz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brensabre79 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 watfordvalves.com have pretty good descriptions of the characteristics of the various valves they offer. Although if you want 'a lot' hotter, you simply won't get it because of the way the circuit uses the valve. I would recommend you get yourself a valve drive pedal / preamp which will saturate the valve inside quite nicely. e.g. http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/page26.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40hz Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Ahh thanks for that mate, I'll give Watford valves a try later! Yeah I know i'm not going to get proper distortion or anything, just a 'slight' valvey esque breakup would be a good option to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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