DIY Valve Guitar Amp Head

[Ik7]

Have you guys ever tried the Russian equivalent of the ecc83/12ax7? Or even their 6V6 or EL84 tubes? They can handle much higher plate voltages and sound incredible. I use them in my builds, the 12ax7 is easier to wire up too as pin 4 and 5 are heaters, and pin 9 is used on an internal shield.

The other good thing is they are cheap too, I paid £12 for 4 12ax7s and two EL84's.

[DrNomis_44]

Have you guys ever tried the Russian equivalent of the ecc83/12ax7? Or even their 6V6 or EL84 tubes? They can handle much higher plate voltages and sound incredible. I use them in my builds, the 12ax7 is easier to wire up too as pin 4 and 5 are heaters, and pin 9 is used on an internal shield.

The other good thing is they are cheap too, I paid £12 for 4 12ax7s and two EL84's.

To be honest, I didn't even know that there was a Russian equivalent of the ECC83/12AX7, or the 6V6 and EL84, but I'm assuming that their electrical characteristics should be reasonably similar, if not the same, most of the valves available today are made either in China (Shugang), Yugoslavia, or in Russia (Sovtek), during the 50's and 60's, because Russia was a Communist nation, it was effectively shut-out of the Solid-State revolution happening in America, so it tended to rely quite heavily on valve technology so the majority of valve manufacturing plants tended to be in European and Asian parts of the world, although Britain and America had valve manufacturing plants too.