Although it might seem a very small nuanse in tone quality from one preamp tube to another, this vintage Mullard preamp tube is making a lot of difference to my ears. The harmonics in the tones from the amp comes out much more inspiring with the 1950s Mullard ECC83 preamp tube. I have experienced this with my other amps as well, and there's just some magic happening with this particular brand of tubes. I have similar experience with a Philips Miniwatt from that era. Here's a massive shootout and test of several vintage and modern preamp tubes: [ Ссылка ]

00:00 Clean tones from the amp with Tung-Sol 12AX7 (modern)
01:19 adding overdrive (Sweet Honey Overdrive)
02:26 Clean tones from the 1950s Mullard ECC83 tube
04:35 adding overdrive (Sweet Honey Overdrive)
05:25 Mullard ECC83 - Jam to a backing track (Long train running)

Gear used
Fraser S-Style VSS Sunburst Heavy Relic Ash '60s w/ Evil Sheep '63/Formvar pickups
1963 GIBSON ES-335 VOS w/MHS humbuckers
Fender Blues junior III w/Fromel modification ([ Ссылка ]) and A Jensen C12N 12" speaker
Sweet Honey Overdrive deluxe from Mad Professor
Fulltone SupaTrem
Strymon El Capistan
Neunaber Wet Reverb
Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay (set for slap back delay)

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