Naylor Duel 60

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The superdrive and duel are amazing amps that are voiced completely differently from everything else. That low mid warmth is super distinctive.

It would be nice to have the hi-lo inputs footswitchable, or a more fleshed out clean channel, but I suspect the simplicity has something to do with how good they sound.

Anyway, fuck the youtube video - no one wants to hear you talk for 20 minutes, asshole.

It's amazing how few youtubers actually do this amp/gear stuff correctly. Kyle, Michael Nielson, and a handful of others are like a tiny whisper in the cacophony of assholes talking for 20 minutes without clips in their video and Glenn Fricker-esque ragebait.

This is exactly why I lean towards doing audio recordings when I have cool amps/gear in my possession - no one wants to hear me jack myself off, they want to hear the gear to see if it's something they would be into.
 
The only thing I heard in his video was if Dave King ever sells the rights to the amps, he would sell it back to Joe Naylor.

Dave has always been great, but he is only a one man operation. Joe could get it going again real well.

On the Superdrive and Superclubs... Yes, I like the low input on those a lot better than the Friedman simple clean on the Duels. If they could just take that, balance it out volume wise and make that switchable on the fly, I would give them my money.

I wish I could talk Mr. Fusionbear into gutting one of my existing amps and turning it into an SD circuit.
 
Naylor's are some of the few non-vintage amps that don't suck. Actually still pretty raw and organic sounding somehow. I had a 1995 SD60 and 2017 SD100. I liked them most with EL34's (wonder it would compare to a Naked like that). Probably in my top 10-12-ish spot also

It's weird how even 3 years ago they could be had around $1900-2100 (what I paid for them in 2021). They used to be some of the most underrated amp ever, but I guess it was just a matter of time

I think those horribly inaccurate descriptions of it being dark and smooth were misleading and turned guys off (myself included). We over time developed Friedman-phobia from trying too many hyped amps that lacked balls, but then try a Naylor and realize it's actually much more Marshall-esque. Huge sigh of relief upon the first power chord played
 
Tried them on and off over the years when coming across one. Never made me feel I needed one.
 
Time for retubing. I had JJ 5881 for last 3 years until one goes red plate, thankfully day before gig. The amp was on at least for hour almost every day (and few night non stop when I forget to switch it off :) ) and around 50 gigs/rehearsals.
Replaced with Sovtek 5881 and 12AX7B at V1. The amp is very picky about microphonic on V1 so I have to be carefull here because it is icing on the cake with non-potted pickups in my LP.
Plate voltage is 490V. Biased 65% about 40mA. Sound great as ever.
Gut shot included :)
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bubucci said:
Time for retubing. I had JJ 5881 for last 3 years until one goes red plate, thankfully day before gig. The amp was on at least for hour almost every day (and few night non stop when I forget to switch it off :) ) and around 50 gigs/rehearsals.
Replaced with Sovtek 5881 and 12AX7B at V1. The amp is very picky about microphonic on V1 so I have to be carefull here because it is icing on the cake with non-potted pickups in my LP.
Plate voltage is 490V. Biased 65% about 40mA. Sound great as ever.
Gut shot included :)View attachment 329547
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Isn't the Sovtek 5881 only a 23 watt tube? It says it's 22.5 on its spec sheet. I would back down the bias a bit, see where the plate voltage goes and recalculate from there. You're at 85% at idle right now.
 
Thanks for remind. I read 'bias them like 6L6GC's' somewhere which are 30W. I rebias them then.
 
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