Best Tubes For Dark Terror?

[adkguy07]

I've been looking at multiple forum(s) info. regarding good sounding tubes for the Orange Dark Terror. It looks mine shipped with JJ brand as EL84 power and also the 3 preamp tubes; although preamps have tube shields in place. What do you owners of this model Orange prefer in yours? I recently swapped the one preamp tube in my Micro Dark (which was a JJ12ax7s) for a Mesa12ax7; the result being a smoother gain tone and cleaner tone, too. I don't want to get into tube rolling per se, but long time users of this type of Orange amp might shed some light on what they specifically avoid putting in their own amp's.


adkguy07

[Ronnie Robinson]

It's subjective but Ehx, JJs and tungsol Are popular. Personally I favour Ehx which I've used in numerous Orange amps amps and always found to be excellent. Always buy matched power tubes.

[pedecamp]

I've been looking at multiple forum(s) info. regarding good sounding tubes for the Orange Dark Terror. It looks mine shipped with JJ brand as EL84 power and also the 3 preamp tubes; although preamps have tube shields in place. What do you owners of this model Orange prefer in yours? I recently swapped the one preamp tube in my Micro Dark (which was a JJ12ax7s) for a Mesa12ax7; the result being a smoother gain tone and cleaner tone, too. I don't want to get into tube rolling per se, but long time users of this type of Orange amp might shed some light on what they specifically avoid putting in their own amp's.


adkguy07

I've got Ruby power tubes and PM preamp tubes stock in my TV50 and sound pretty good, I've rolled these tubes through other amps and they sounded good there too.