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    1996 blues deluxe reverb tube layout

    Can't find this anywhere on line Can anyone tell me what the layout of the three preamp tubes are? I need to replace them and I'm still learning. One of them has to be the preamp, but what are the other two? I'm still learning how to read a schematic, so I'm not sure which of the 3 12ax7's do what. Thanks. This is not a BD reissue, this is an actual BD From March 1996.

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    Re: 1996 blues deluxe reverb tube layout

    V1-preamp furthest from power tubes
    V2-preamp
    V3-phase inverter
    V5-6L6GC
    V6-6L6GC

    Reverb is chip driven


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    Re: 1996 blues deluxe reverb tube layout

    OK, I'll ask first.

    What makes you think you need to change the tubes?

    Preamp tubes last pretty much indefinitely and 6L6GC's last a LLLOOOOONNNNGG time, like decades. Unless the bottom end has dropped out and you know the speaker and output transformer are good the tubes are most likely fine.


    If none of the tubes are working you have a different issue.

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