![]() ![]() ![]() The sound I could easyly get out of it were the Clifs of Dover and the start of Desert Rose sound. Design wise it looks like they were going for a Mullard smooth plate design, but it's really just distinctive on it's own. The 12ax7wxt+ has this upper mid-range sweet spot that is really nice for notes played above the 12th fret and picked just behind the middle pickup - very much an EJ "Pavilion" sound if I boost the low end and Colin James "Bad Habits" sound if I roll the low end off. The Sovetk 12ax7wxt+, and JJ/Tesla 12ax7 tubes gave better definition to the overdriven sound. The Sovtek 12ax7lps (which came with the TWTD) was amaziingly soulful, great blues sound w/strat After 28 years of playing - and using all kinds of effects I finally ran across one that really impressed me. I've tried about a dozen of the tubes that I have heard were the best 12ax/au7s - they all can make a breath-takingly rich overdriven tone, but I really like the sound of a Mullard 12au7 - WOW!! It might not sound like a specific artist with this tube, but I know my sound never sounded better - and this was with a $100 tube works pedal and a $20 tube. With an ei12ax7 I can get a really close EJ sound (I think the rest is in the fingers) with my Mesa amp and strat - which tells me they must be pretty close in sound irrespective of tubes. 90% of the sound is dependent on the tube used. I have a few of the tube works tube drivers.
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