To most people, the 6V6 sounds more musical for blues. That being said, the amp design also plays a big role in the final sound so these categorizations only serve as general guidelines. They both are great and your choice should be based on your application i. Amps are calibrated to use specific valves 6v6, 6L6, EL84, etc.
I would strongly advise against it unless you understand the amp design and are comfortable with the technicalities of swapping power tubes. They need to be rebiased, which is not a simple task. It is much better to let an amp technician handle this situation because it involves advanced soldering. The three key reasons are output impedance, filament current and plate current. First off, the 6v6s need a higher load than 6L6s for optimum power. You can compare this to the difference between a 4ohm and 8 ohm speaker.
In simple words, it can be said that one 6L6 tube requires the same electrical space as 2 6V6 tubes. This means that substituting 6L6s into an amp that is powered by 6V6 tubes will need twice the juice from the power transformer. If your amp lacks a beefed up power supply to house the 6L6, it will end up damaging the amp.
The 6L6 heater is rated at 6. So in amps like Fender Princeton that run on 6V6, replacing the tube with 6L6s will almost always lead to overheating the power transformer and burnout issues. Similarly, doing it the other way around — swapping 6L6 tubes with 6V6 tubes — can lead to fast burnout.
The best way to tell if your amp allows any interchangeability is to check the website or the User Manual. The company was looking for a viable low-powered alternative to 6L6 that required less heater power. Raytheon came up with the 6V6 as a scaled down version of 6L6, which would be ideal for home use.
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Overdrive-wise they just have a browner, more organic tone. Master volume 6L6 amps don't get the same effect because master volume amps just cook the preamp tubes.
You're better off getting an amp with smaller power tubes and cooking BOTH power amp and preamp tubes. Recording and PA technology is getting better and the baby boomers are getting older and losing their hearing so you're seeing a huge market shift toward smaller amps like 6V6 and EL84 amps.
Also a lot more class A amps that use just ONE of these tubes. You get all of the good tone without having. Thanks all. Sounds like my tastes would take me toward a 6V6. Unfortunately, I only know of the Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue that runs those and those are expensive amps! Ya if your your talking about pushing the amp into full on or on the verge of saturation. Some people like a nice clean tube tone thats big and round with no natural saturation.
Unless someone has been around for the past couple of decades, they won't realize how rare 6V6's had gotten at one time. After the U. Otherwise, there was a Chinese small-bottled 6L6 which was relabeled 6V6, but didn't count.
As a result, 6V6 amps had fallen out of fashion, for a long time only the DRRI was available with Sovtek tubes , later the Mesa Blue Angel would make the leap, and then a few boutigue makers would launch their Tweed clones Victoria, Kendrick and DR-derived amps Tone King, for example.
But the EL84 had taken over the small-tube market, and still controls much of it.
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