mchn13":3jr52sc4 said:
Beyond Black":3jr52sc4 said:
napalmdeath swears that the Randall RD45 with a boost will wipe the floor with the EVH. I've followed much tube advice from him and he hasn't steered me wrong yet. My buddy has the RD45 and I hope to try it soon. That being said, I've changed a few tubes in my EVH 50 watt per nd's advice and that amp fucking kills.
I know napalm is a fan, and I do like the head a lot; but for me the blue channel of the Evh boosted and unboosted is my favorite. I’ve been running them both stereo for a couple months and the complement each other well, but the Randall imo; is darker chewier mids, and I prefer the leaner stringier mids of the Evh. I know, horrible adjectives and all.... but that’s the way I see it. The Evh also has a lot of switching options, and switchable loop.
Now; he gave me some tube rolling options that I haven’t gotten to Yet so gonna start on them as soon as I grab some decent preamp tubes. Also going to try to use some quality lower gain tubes in the pre of the Evh and see what that does to the noise of the red channel, and see if I can get it closer to blue.
If that works it’s almost a no contest for me.
Ditch the Ruby 6L6's for JJ's, and bias to about 34-36mA.
That'll fatten it up, and take away some of the high end. It'll sound bigger, trust me. The JJ's are heartier/beefier.
The preamp section is all chinese too. I ran a Tungsol in V1, JJ's in V2 & V3, and a Sovtek LPS in V4. With JJ 6L6's too = new amp. I think I even have a spare set of JJ 6L6's, I'll check when I get over to my stash this weekend.
I love the EVH blue channel as well, but the red is too out of control for my tastes, (and I love my Triple XXX). And lower gain tubes in the EVH sounds like shit. Sucks the life out of it. The only thing that helped, was a good NOS 5751 in V2 or V3.