however, vacuum tubes require little electric heaters to work, and that draws a lot of current. so much current, in fact, that you have to upgrade the power supply. that's a lot for a beginner's project, so I redesigned the circuit slightly to use mosfet transistors in the two added stages.
Since it is working perfectly well, I've decided to mod it. My mods are based on this article from the mid 90's http://www.normankoren.com/Audio/Spice_preamp_2.html