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RE: Is the 6v6 the best guitar amp tube ?

I built a Fender 5F1 Champ - 12AX7 and 6V6. I wanted to try to get the old Fender sound so I used; cotton coated wire, a 40 year old Australian made 6V6 black glass and 40 year old Australian made 12AX7 and and 5Y3 rec tube. I used a 5H choke (the amp is dead quiet). Also I used hand made beeswax caps (Jupiter's originals no longer made), carbon resistors and even solder from the 60's.I got a very old Jensen 12" guitar speaker with the Alnico magnet.

Play the amp quiet and it is sweet as but wind it up and it growls. It does appear to be the fav. tube (6V6) of a lot of big guitar makers. It does have a special sound. The other I think is a good guitar tube is an EL34.
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