ECC83-WC
"Of all of the tubes in the line up, the ECC83-WC tube loves to be
overdriven. When I plug a preamp tube into a $2,800 amp top and cab, stocked with new and vintage tubes which I have carefully hand selected and tested, I doubt that it is going to improve the tone. Boy was I wrong! It's difficult to express in words how excited I was when I heard this tube in my Morgan amp. I was ecstatic. It was inspiring. It was encouraging that there is a company with current production of a tube that out performs my secret weapon- a workhorse tube that goes into the V1 of my #1 amp- a vintage RCA that tests at around 92,
which had taken me yeeeeears to find.
Tonally, the ECC83WC is very balanced, with somewhat of pronounced highs when it is overdriven. In my 65 deluxe, it was less spectacular; however, and my Morgan and Shaw amps, it excelled beyond any other tube that I tried against it. When overdriven, the notes still have incredible separation, and this tube adds a bit more dimensional feel to the sound. You can almost hear more of what is there tonally then you could before. To some, it is subtle. It is sort of like the affect that a high impedance buffer has on the signal- it is almost like removing resistance from the signal path, to allow you to hear more of what is there."
Derek Williams