Mesa Boogie Express 5-50 Custom Retube Kit

Custom Kit

Want it your way? The "Custom Kit" is just that, you get to choose your power tubes and all your preamp tubes! We'll give you all the tube types that we know work. Then you can choose your V1 tube and all your other preamp tubes! We give you all the positions and you fill them!. We left the quantity fields open so that spares or multiple tubes could be ordered to experiment with.

Custom Kit

Power-Tubes

Any of the power tubes listed below are compatible with your amp. All our Mesa Retube Kits include power tubes that are hand selected to run perfectly in Mesa amps. We have extensive hands-on experience measuring the fixed bias points in these amps and what grade of tubes will achieve optimal performance. Please click on the “More Details” button for an explanation of the tonal differences. We left the "Quantity Field" active for those of you who may want a couple different types of power tubes to experiment with.

6L6GC Matched Pair -

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5881 Matched Pair -

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V3 is the fourth and fifth stage for both Channels and the FX return, here you can again increase or decrease the gain or smooth it out with a Gold Pin tube. The only tubes we stay away from in V3 are the long plate tubes which are more prone to feeding back in the lead position.

ECC83S Standard -

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ECC83S High Gain -

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ECC83S Gold Pin -

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ECC83 MG Standard -

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ECC83 MG Gold Pin -

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5751 Standard -

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5751 Gold Pin -

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ECC81 (12AT7) Standard -

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ECC81 Gold Pin -

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EuroDamper Tube Damper Rings

Combo amps are very hard on tubes because of vibrations which can cause tube rattle with any brand of tube. If your amp is the combo version and you play by yourself in a quiet environment or record with your amp you may want to consider using the EuroDamper tube damper rings. If your amp is the combo version then please let us know in the comments section. All Combo amp Retube Kits are shipped with the Eurotubes Double Mica 6L6GC’s at no extra charge. JJ Electronic started building us a proprietary version of their 6L6GC (the 6L6GC-DM) in 2005 with extra layers of mica. This reinforces the plate structure and all but eliminates tube rattle symptoms. For all other tubes such as the 5881's we recommend using our EuroDamper rings. These are 5.00 each.

EuroDamper Large - Tube Damper Ring for octal base tubes -

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Cables-

These are made in-house from USA made real 10 Gauge oxygen free copper cable and high quality heavy duty 1/4" jacks. These cables leave no frequency unheard!

Eurotubes 10 Gauge 3 foot Speaker Cable -

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Eurotubes 10 Gauge 6 foot Speaker Cable -

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