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Happy nad!
This was pretty much me coming downstairs early this morning, before the recollection of yesterday had hit
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I've had a chance to let if off the leash a little bit this afternoon and I'm blown away by the sound it makes. I've played through some loud amps and some loud amps through 4x12s too but nothing comes close to this. I've had an AC15 2x12 as well but the combo of the little extra power and it going through a pair of Blues takes it to a different planet of noise all together.
The Top Boost channel is nice, does the Vox kinda thing well enough and is probably the sound that most people want from an AC. For me though, the EF86 channel is pure heaven. It starts to break up as soon as around three on the volume (which is just as well as I don't think my house would still be standing if I went much higher) and when it does it's like overdosing on thick, warm, filthy, rich tone.
Still feels like an absolutely stupid thing to buy but I adore it. Guess my to do list now has finding a good attenuator and investigating how to turn it in to a head and cab, before it kills me
Some people don't like the ef86 sound because it's quite middy and a bit... Messy up top, but I love it - just enough chaos
looking forward to hearing it!
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I far prefer a cascaded 12AX7 - much more harmonically rich and complex, and overdrives far better. I’ve got an old amp with an EF86 preamp and I keep wondering if I can be bothered to rebuild it with a 12AX7... it really doesn’t sound great as it is, either clean or dirty. (Although it’s OK clean with a pedal in front.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Your feelings about the ef86 are about the only thing I’ve seen you write that I’ve disagreed with @ICBM
I guess one man’s bland and characterless is another’s transposed raw. The other channel is much richer and more complex but I love the way the ef86 never feels like it’s colouring the voice of the guitar
My very favourite amp is a staggeringly gnarly 5e3 that adds its own depth and overtones to any guitar you plug and makes them sound absolutely huge. Full of personality