![]() My Peavey 6505 could have been one third smaller if they had wanted to. Compact little dude that doesn't look very maintenance friendly. As long as I don't have to dig "into" it. It was an impulse buy but every time I plug into I really dig it. ![]() I run mine most of the time either in the 1:00 sweet spot where both sets of tubes seem to be at their maximum or set fully to the EL84 side. The drawback of this is that when you set it to the 6V6 side it's a little on the dull side compared to my other 6V6 amps (at least to my ears). The amp tames down the harshness of the EL84's somehow. I will say one thing about the Rebel 20 - it's the only overdriven EL84 amp I have ever heard that I really like and I love it. Interesting how they paired one 6V6 and one EL84 on each side of the transformer. ![]() I don't see how this amp would get any maxed out power tube distortion the way it is configured. The way it's configured it's an either/or situation with a midpoint 50/50 setting. If you used two double ganged pots it would allow you to set the percentage of each tube pair independently (two true post PI master volumes) but I don't understand the way the output plates are connected well enough to know if that is feasible in this circuit or not.
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