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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:05 pm
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Tom do the "R" tubes have the Fender logo? Are you sure it's not a "B" with part of the ink missing?

This is a stock "White" 6L6B that was in mine:
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If you look closely, you'll see what they really are, in my case Sovtek 5881WXT's:
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Fender calls the 5881WXT an acceptable substitute for a "real" 6L6. I personally found it to be rather sterile sounding, but that could be in part due to the speaker not being broken in.

I had a good two hours of "playtime" at high volume ( 7-8 ) yesterday. Today, playing at around 4, I finally noticed a slight difference in sound quality! :D


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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:12 am
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Thanks for the pix, Swamper. The old amp has the Fender GTs in red, my new one has tubes without any Fender logo, just the square print with the GT logo in red as described earlier, and it's definitely 6L6R (they're listed on the GT website).


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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:23 pm
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I saw them on the GT site....do yours have labels on the bases like the pic on the GT site? I believe the handwritten "H6" on that one is the hardness rating.

Kind of odd that they're not the Fender branded GT's...maybe since they took over GT there's no point to re-branding their own product?


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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:58 pm
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I think you're probably right about the re-branding.

At the bottom there is a white label with 5W in hand, then the GT logo, then KAF also hand-written.


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