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03-25-2022, 08:39 AM
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Tube News!
Just saw this today on Guitar.com
https://guitar.com/features/intervie...actory-crisis/
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03-25-2022, 12:05 PM
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Well, this is heartening news for an old guy with an old Fender Deluxe Reverb from 1976! I don't run through tubes much, but it will be good to be able to get quality tubes from an American manufacturer again...
When I need them!
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03-25-2022, 12:44 PM
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I like this news from two angles: I want U.S.-based production to happen and I used to live near the Western Electric plant in Rossville. In fact, my favorite guitar store was near there.
Bob
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03-25-2022, 02:24 PM
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Just last night a bass player was cracking wise that all us “tube amp guys” were going to be in big trouble, with Russia not supplying vacuum tubes to us any longer. Funny how things work out sometimes, isn’t it? God Bless America🇺🇸
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03-25-2022, 02:42 PM
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I read that earlier today. Great news. Thinking that the guitar amp tubes will be at least twice the price of non-US tubes but if Western Electric can live up to the quality aspect that is discussed (which they should be able to do) they should sell well.
I just checked Western Electric's website ... their audiophile 300-B tube listed as $699 each. Wow.
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03-25-2022, 08:14 PM
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Still, an interesting story.
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03-25-2022, 08:32 PM
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 ); unfortunately these are fickle times we live in, IMO it'll take two years or so to get enough product into the retail pipeline to make a real difference, and a lot can go wrong on many fronts in the interim - great news in the abstract, but let's not count our chickens before they're hatched...
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03-26-2022, 08:54 AM
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It's good news, but too late for me: I and the other guitarist in our band already did our tube panic buying a couple of weeks ago. We both have multiple tube amps and wanted to be able to use them if a tube goes bad. It was actually not as bad as I thought it'd be: the prices weren't really inflated like I expected, and I got everything I wanted within a week. My main reasoning is that I thought when I inevitably sell my tube amps, they'd be a much more attractive purchase for someone if they came with a spare set of tubes.
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03-26-2022, 01:08 PM
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I have JJs in my Bugera V22 Infinium. I have a spare JJ 12AX7 and EL84 and I also still have the original Chinese-built tubes, so I'm not panicked about replacements at the moment.
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03-26-2022, 03:34 PM
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I have 4 used EL34s and 4 12AX7 tubes from when I re-tubed my Marshal JCM2000 about 10 years ago so I wasn't concerned on that front. But my Marshall Vintage Modern has KT-66 tubes, it's my #1 amp and I have no spares... and it's not a popular tube either. I didn't buy spares but it did raise my concerns. I love that amp.
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03-26-2022, 04:28 PM
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Get some spares. They seem to be available for about $50 each. Or switch to 6L6 and cut the cost in half.
I will look at the tube stock I have and see if any would fit guitar amps. I need to sell some, but probably aren’t the right ones. Power tubes I have used for stereos are 300b and KT 55 I think.
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03-29-2022, 09:10 AM
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04-01-2022, 06:09 PM
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The prospect of homegrown tubes is exciting. But judging from the article and the links within, looks like we’ll be waiting for quite some time before the first ones become available.
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04-01-2022, 07:30 PM
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