2 Sep
2008
2 Sep
'08
12:11 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:47 AM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
wrote:
Did all the tubes disappear or something? LOTS AND LOTS of tubes were
They're still being made, mostly in the former USSR. After Mullard
stopped producing valves in the 1980s, a company in the USSR bought the
whole lot up and shipped it across. If you buy a Sovtek ECC83 or EL34,
it's exactly like an old Mullard one.
Gordon
Us amp
builders
love them for their second-harmonicy crunch...
Still with out the guitar amp people, I don't think any kind of valves
would be around for people like myself to play music through.