Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: jim on June 17, 2012, 05:54:58 pm
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A buddy of mine picked up an Ebay Victoria Victorette sight unseen and unplayed. It sounds like it could be a great harp amp, sort of like a 5E3, but it has reverb and bias-vary trem. He wants me to make it cleaner.....Well, needless to say he does not deserve this fne amp in the least bit. I tried those Sovtek EL-84M's for the first time and they replated in this amp. The cathode resistor is 180 Ohms and the plate voltage is 270V. There is no schematic available. A new pair of regular EL-84's works just fine. Do these EL-84M's have different spec's? Do you think these tubes are defective? What do they sound like? I did try a 5751 in the V1 and it did clean up just a little. Jim
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If the other EL84s work fine , then EL84Ms should work fine too. The ones that were tried were probably bad
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sort of like a 5E3, but it has reverb and bias-vary trem. He wants me to make it cleaner.....
I think that would be a big mistake.
That amp was built for it's sound as is, with verb and bias trem.
And why would a amplified harp player want a cleaner sound? If that's the case just play throug the PA.
IMO, he should sell it to get $$ to buy something more to his needs. And then do what ever he want's to do to it untill he's happy.
I would _not_ try to make that amp _cleaner_ or anything else than what it was built for sound/tone wise.
This is not and old amp, but a new amp built to be/sound as is. Which someone would/will be _very_ happy with as is.
Brad :w2: