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Can you run 5881s in the SYN 50/50? I understand it has a fixed bias. If not what is the recommended 6L6 or will any good ones be fine?

Synergy says they have tried chaining 3 SYN2 docks. Units seem to be designed extremely well where patching the right ends and outs suffers no signal degrade or noise issues. At one time I had two SYN1's chained into a SYN2 then I got a second SYN2.

I am getting another Vai module as I miss the clean channel and the gain is rather unique, absolutely killer for leads. Wish I had not sold it off. Other fav is either the BE DLX or the T DLX. I also have the 6550 and a ENGL Powerball for my current 4 module dock rig. That BE DLX on HBE toggle...

There is one thing I have noted, your tastes change a lot w this system so don't count on a permanent config. I mean things you can lock in like a fav clean channel but high gain, I find myself changing all the time. Especially if you change out stuff on your board as it changes which modules...

I have this pet theory in my head that perhaps a larger glass tube like the 6L6/5881 produces more low end and wattage potential (which requires more watts) than the more slender EL34 type, perhaps that is just a quasi perspective but I am thinking wattage potential as well. Larger tubes would...

How do you not merely attribute that to the preamp design? A power amp amp really only magnifies what it sees. It is entirely possible different power tubes may breakup differently, but so much depends on the design and circuitry of the preamp which is pretty much the core idea of Synergy...

The "Buxom Betty" as Friedman names them is his take on a beefed up twin far as I know. More a clean design than gain. I still like it but due to only 4 at time I am using the T DLX for my cleans very similar to the BB I think. Vai's module has a great clean similar to the BMAN module clean...

I am not sure there is all that much difference in power tubes apart from their wattage/headroom potential. As far as hearing differences, Maybe some have Vai ears. Speaking of which he has been using Synergy for some time now. Differences come in the preamp design I think not so much the power...

Drastically so, the BB is a very thick and glassy sounding twin thing, BE is more a Marshall mod, it's a very good module. I'd have to say I like the BB clean more than the BE but I also have a BE DLX which has all that and more but not a great clean.

Just wondering as tube amps often use a tube for a phase inverter which is not usually a 12AX7. I was wondering if all tubes mostly the mother SNY docs and the SYN50 power amp use 12AX7s (in those two slots along side the 6L6's).

BB is cleaner Fenderish twin, might just be slightly cleaner than the TDLX channel 1, more Fendery glass like anyway. (My sense of "clean" is that sort of "glassy" Fender-like tonal quality a Twin has.) OS also has a marvelous sounding versatile clean side. "Cleaner" would have to amount to...

Through my recent shuffling of active modules and keepers, I have to say the T/DLX remains a top fav, there is just more use for a great clean channel than an overt gain that more or less has a specific voicing. I come and go on high modules probably ear fatique and needing to change the voicing...

I can't seem to have a fav of one module w a great clean and high gain. I supose the BB/BE is close. The clean is for sure much better than the basic BE on that module. Everything else, killer high gain or killer clean but not really both. Exception might be the Vai signature which has an...

You can run the tc into the loop jacks of the SYN1 and let the SYN1 do it's job of driving the power amp. Depends also what effects you plan on using. I don't know that tc unit so not sure what you are using it for. Any modulation, delay, or reverb will sound great that way. If any drives or...

I have run a tube power amp and two syn2 in rack and the heat is present, the cooling fan runs but other than you feel it and you know it's there it's not enough to be a problem with the unit's being able to tollerate it without issue. You can always one rack space the power amp with a dummy...