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This is actually only the second example I know of with a valve used like this - the other is the Fender Performer/Roc Pro amp.
I doubt the differences between different valves will have any significant effect on the tone when used like that, but I could be wrong.
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It's not necessarily as pointless as that sounds though - used as a clipping diode pair, the valve characteristics will determine the onset of clipping, so it's probably going to sound smoother and without that irritating 'separated' solid-state diode effect where the distorted sound seems to sit on top of the clean sound but separate from it, because the clipping is effectively switched on and off as the signal hovers around the threshold of it. The valve should have a very soft onset of clipping and so avoid that.
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