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  • January 17, 2009 at 9:47 am #77566
    norumba
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    i ve seen some online retailers list EH power tubes in pairs with further options such as soft, medium, or hard, but i couldnt find any description on either the retailer sites nor on the EH site of what those options are or would indicate.

    can someone walk me through that? thanks…

    January 17, 2009 at 10:56 am #90988
    electro-melx
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    The soft, medium, and hard descriptions refer to break up of the tube for an overdriven signal.

    Soft-rated tubes break up slow and have the highest amount of headroom, while hard-rated tubes break up easier and have the least headroom, Medium-rated tubes fall in between.

    so, if you have a amp that you want to distort quickly get ‘hard’

    if you find you can’t get loud enough cleans from your amp get the ‘soft’

    January 17, 2009 at 5:48 pm #91006
    norumba
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    thanks! i assumed it was something like that, but wasnt sure, just wanted to confirm….:)

    January 17, 2009 at 6:56 pm #91014
    electro-melx
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    no problem, I didn’t know myself until I did some google searching, so I learned something too!!! :D

    October 7, 2011 at 10:46 pm #116112
    shane571
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    what does EH reccomend on “burning in” tubes

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