Tube amp question

[Chief_CrazyTalk]

Good info, thank you. With todays work schedule I wouldn't have made it to any of the cool shops in Austin, so I went ahead and got a pair from GC. GT 7's, same as what's in the amp now, for $49. Which I didn't think was too bad.

I suppose I can try some others in the future, but I had to have them today...lol. the local Craigslist didnt yield anything but quad and ridiculously expensive supposedly nos mullards.

Thanks all, again.

[DonP]

Yep, getter is burned up. The tube has lost it's vacuum. Unfortunatly I have a quad of GE 6550's from GT and one tube took a shit after a few hours of play. I need to find another tube with the same GT ratings to make my set complete again.

Joe,

While it's possible to pull a tube from half of a 50 watt push/pull amp, it was never meant to run that way. A 100 watt amp is a doubled up 50 watt with an extra pair of helper tubes. You can pull those helper tubes to take it back down to 50, but you always need a tube on either side for the push pull amp to work as designed.

[Chief_CrazyTalk]

Well, the tubes sound great...just loving it. I appreciate the info; I never knew that about the getters.