Well, after playing around with it I'm liking the el34s in it more than I did in my Marshall and other amps I've had that had them in it. These have a shitload of low end and the highs are kinda nice too. I'm still gonna look at other options when I go to retube but if I end up sticking with stock el34 I won't mind. I read that Matamps have the tubes too close together to everything and that is why they fail so much. Wouldn't 6550 make that a little more prone to happen since they are bigger?
Another thing, the speaker outputs on the back are one each 4, 8, and 16 ohm. My Emperors (16ohm) can be daisy chained off of each other so would that make running from the 16 ohm on the amp into one cab and then out of that cab into the other one still be at 16 ohm? Or would it be 8? I never daisy chain them because my Soldano has two speaker jacks and a selectable ohm switch.
whiskey_face wrote:also conky you could try a kt-77 as a drop in and bias replacement for el-34s?
I love 34s mids but miss the bass of 6550s or 88s apparently those are suppose to be a nice mix. :gizz:
I'll keep that in mind. Been contemplating running a set of KT66 in my Soldano.
samzadgan wrote:Conky...that Matamp looks sweet bro...hope this one has what youre looking for.
in Band news, i jammed last night with a couple of guys i met on a guitar forum in London...both guitarist, but one of them wanted to play drums...it was so freaking awesome. In one 3 hour session we did more than i did in 2 months with the old band. Now we just need to find a good bass player, but so far so good...and initial band name...
...Librarian...
I really like the sound of it...but...

My wife is a librarian (and a fucking hot one at that). She would love this idea and buy your album instantly.
AxAxSxS wrote:
Show poster material for days.
I know what I'm getting my wife for Christmas. Gonna track down a copy.