I like JJ KT77's. I find I am getting a tighter sound at a higher volume that I got with the winged c el34's. Plus, the 34's crapped out with much fewer hours than I have put on the 77's so far. How about 12AX7's? I heard that 12AX7's don't change the sound nearly as much as the power tubes do? Is ...

With my R30, I use a Keeley-modded Sparkle Drive for my stage 1 boost/od, then I'll kick on a Keeley SD-1 and an ISP gate for stage 2. For mods I have a boss CE-2 and a Fulltone Dejavibe, and lastly a boss DD-6 delay, which may get replaced by a MXR carbon copy. I would say that the sparkle drive an...

I like JJ KT77's. I find I am getting a tighter sound at a higher volume that I got with the winged c el34's. Plus, the 34's crapped out with much fewer hours than I have put on the 77's so far.

I find that the r30 needs a little help to get that Zakk Wylde, Killswitch type of pinch harmonic. I found by accident that running my keeley modded sparkle drive into my SD-1, also keeley modded, into the drive channel with all knobs at 1:00, master at 10:00, gets the money. I use a decimator g-str...