The GTEL34M is an exact replica of perhaps the most famous power tube of all time, the EL34 as made by Mullard in the ‘60s. It was the stock tube in all the early Marshall and HIWATT amps. There were a number of variants of the original tube and GT chose the classic XF2 dual getter version to reproduce, as it is perhaps the best example from a span of nearly 15 years that Mullard produced this tube.
The tone is unmistakeable... that classic big fat tone with well defined chords and single notes. It has no mush when pushed into distortion, just fat power chords and stinging leads. This tube really makes the reissue amps wake up and play like the originals, and is as close as you can get to vintage Marshall heaven without spending a small fortune on a set of NOS tubes on eBay. In many blind listening tests, our players could not tell the difference between these and the originals, which was really good news after spending nearly one year and many thousands on new tooling and original materials to make this tube as close to the original as possible.
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