Guitar Amplifier Vacuum Tubes

Who Is Guitar Amp Tubes dot Com?

Brief description:  We offer guitar amp tubes by jj tubes with el34 and el34 tubes.  Guitar Amp Tubes 12ax7 tubes by Svetlana tubes and amp tubes including electro harmonix tubes, tube amp parts and more.  The best tube store specifically for Guitar Players.

What is the best set of tubes for your Marshall, Fender, Vox or other tube guitar amp?

With nearly thirty years in the music industry, our experience with guitar tube amps stretches from over seas with classic British Marshall crunch, back to the United States with Vintage Fender guitar tones and back to Europe for top of the line German engineered power house Hughes & Kettner tube guitar amps that produce everything from classic Marshall crunch, vintage Fender cleans, Beatles-like Vox guitar tone, modern ‘Boogie’ gain and everything in between.

With all the good tubes out there we can help you shape and define your guitar tone to your personal style and guitar playing technique.

The trick to getting the right guitar amp tone for you is to start with what you like and don’t like about tube guitar amps that you’ve heard or played through.  A major mis-step is trying to apply tube philosophies that everyone hales as being ‘the best’ for your Marshall, ‘the best’ guitar amp tubes for Fender clean tones.  The secret to that trick is to compare amps and tubes by playing through them with YOUR guitar and YOUR pedals or rack gear.

Shape and mold your tube guitar amp tone by starting with a solid foundation of power tubes.  While there are lots of brands to choose from, there are only a few tube manufacturers in the world.  A good start are JJ Electronics (formerly Tesla) and Svetlana Winged C power tubes.  Now the shaping and molding of your guitar tone begins:  experimenting with preamp tubes can make huge differences in your guitar tone.

Whether it’s experimenting with different levels of gain in tube types like 12AX7s, 12AT7s or 12AU7s as well as others or your search for a cleaner, glassier tone, even within types such as 12AX7 – from brand to brand you may find different qualities that suit your playing style and desired tone.  Some 12AX7s have a warmer bottom end or bassier response while others may offer more clarity and bite.  And still others may be more neutral and balanced.

And the experiment continues…knowing which preamp tube position you are working with, you may find that one brand may sound better or worse in a given position.  V1 is typically the preamp gain tube.  You may want to try something with clarity and bite or perhaps a more aggressive ‘gain’ in this position.  If you’re looking to clean things up, a tube with less gain (12AT7 or 12AU7) or a brand within the same type like a 12AX7 Jan Phillips (thinner with less bite) vs Sovtek (lot’s of gain).  It’s important to remember that using a different brand or type in each position will affect the next position.

So you may find yourself exchanging the V1 and V2 (tone) positions with several different combinations till you can dial in a tone that suits your desired guitar tone.  There are some parameters that may make a tube the right tube for a given amp, but while staying within those parameters…there is no ‘right' tube unless it’s the right tube for YOUR guitar tone!