Fractal AX8 Power Amp Tubes Rundown!
The Fractal Audio AX8 has a face-melting 12 power amp tubes to choose from! Things can get pretty confusing in the amp block pages so this tutorial is designed to help you wrap your head around the complexities with the Power Amp page in the Fractal AX8.Video Timings:
Question 1: What do tubes do? 0:44
Question 2: What are triodes, tetrodes, and pentodes? 1:00
Homage to John Ambrose Fleming (The inventor of tubes) 2:20
Question 3: Which power amp tube types are in the AX8? 2:39
Inside The AX8 Power Amp Page
In total the AX8 has over 80 different amp block parameters and within those parameters options such as preamp and power tube selection options add to the sometimes overwhelming number of choices. Here are the power tubes types that you can choose from inside the AX8 amp block:
- 6AQ5 (EL90)
- 6L6/5881
- 6V6
- 300B
- 6550
- 6973 (1965 Falco)
- EL34/6CA7
- EL84/6BQ5
- Ideal Pentode and Ideal Tetrode (Jazz 120)* use if you're using an external preamp
- KT66 (Dr. Zs Route 66) Herbie Amps
- KT88 (Spawn Nitro)
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