Are there short and long plate sylvania 12ax7wa?

texwest · Post by **texwest** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:42 pm

I've been on ebay looking for tubes and thispic intrigued me. The tube on the left looks to have short plate the one next to it a long plate. Both clearly say 12ax7wa. What do we want the long or short?

guitar007 · Post by **guitar007** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:02 pm

Looks to me like long plates & 1 short plate.

texwest · Post by **texwest** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:23 pm

Yeah I know! But everybody is saying to use the 12zx7wa and now I see that there are long plate and short plate ones. I'm curious which one is the one to get-long or short?

guitar007 · Post by **guitar007** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:46 am

I personally prefer the long plates. It really is up to the individual, though.

Bainzy · Post by **Bainzy** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:57 am

You can't go wrong with long plates

Steve (SDM) sent me a later Sylvania 12ax7 (not WA version) that I'm gonna do a test report on once I've got my custom guitar reassembled (it's being refinished, but I don't have much time right now for it). So far with my strat I really like what I hear, similar to and maybe even better than a Mullard for V1 with the strat i.m.o.