The.new.guy

No, they haven't blown already, but I recently purchased an ENGL E350 preamp and a Peavey Classic 50/50 power amp. I'm looking to get the best djent tone I can out of this. What tubes should I replace these with when they blow out? The ENGL came with ENGL 12ax7s and the Peavey has JJs in it I believe. Basically, I'm looking for something a little "harder" per say and with less gain. I was thinking Groove Tubes for the preamp, but I'm up for suggestions. What about the power amp?

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Sakke

You sure you're scooping your mids enough? I think that's what djent guys do.

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Carl6661

Djent is all about the mids, as far as I understand, they help give the sound a kind of percussive quality.

As for the djenty-tube-stuff-question, there are other things you could do instead of changing the tubes. I've heard some awesome tones from the E530, so I doubt that is to blame. Assuming you aren't doing so already, you could try something a tube screamer in front of the amp, that's a very common thing to do. Maybe try an EQ pedal, or rack unit too, that can really help shape the sound.

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Mark G

Just for the slim chance you're not trolling....this isn't true. Djent needs a healthy dose of mids (as it is low tuned) and pretty high treble to get that metallic scratchy sound. Also uses a lot of gain, but very tight noise gates to control it and chop off the tails.

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Blick71

Set bass to 3, mids to 8 and treble to 6.5. Drop gain to about 4 but play on the high gain channel. Palm mute the crap out of it and voila! Djent. It's F**king magic. Honestly though, start with that. Your gear sounds like it should be fine, though you may want to put a ts in front at some point. Otherwise, you're golden

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Which e530 is it? The older ones had 3 or 4 12ax7's. The current ones only have one,m probably for a powertube saturation sound.

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Sakke

Sure I wasn't

Anyways, do as Mark G just told you and see if that works out for you. I tried some recommended settings from who knows what site: gain set on 10 o'clock; bass set on 9 o'clock; mids 12 o'clock and treble was somewhere between 3 and 5 o'clock, on my DSL combo and I guess it worked, I just didn't like the tone myself.

Guess they're pretty close to what is recommended above.

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