In 1993, I set out to faithfully recreate the crown jewels among the many classic amplifiers developed by Leo Fender. The tweed amps of the late 50's defined the sound of rock and blues on vinyl and on stage, but they had also become increasingly scarce, and well beyond the reach of most working musicians.
VICTORIA AMPLIFIER
ANNOUNCES TWO NEW MODELS
January 28, 2008
The Victoria Amplifier Co. is proud to announce the arrival of two new amps, the Electro King and the Golden Melody.
The Electro King is an idealized recreation of the classic McCarty era GA-40. Its circa 1957 circuit features two cathode biased 6V6s for 15watts of recording and small club power. The heart and soul of the Electro King is its 5879 preamp circuit; a single NOS 5879 input pentode for each of the normal and tremolo channels provides rich distortion and natural tube compression at any volume setting. Notes seem to be “blown” out of the amp with overdriven tones that are saturated, dynamic and musical. The Electro King is singularly suited to slide guitar styles with its expressive open tones. True to the original, the tremolo is accomplished with the aid of an NOS 6SQ7 oscillator tube and is a driver modulated volume style tremolo. Slim Harpo/Lonesome Sundown spoken here. The Electro King is fitted with a Jensen P12Q alnico speaker for true vintage tone. New Victoria
“Radio-lectric” logo and two tone tolex covering standard.
MSRP $2995.
Electro King chassis component layout:
The Golden Melody is a full range 50watt 2x12 combo featuring the same true “harmonic vari-tone” vibrato and reverb found on Victoria’s renowned Reverberato unit. A GZ-34/5U4 and two 6L6GCs provide the clean power while the unique harmonic filter vibrato and classic preamp topology generate tones from spanky clean to Fillmore Gypsy. Spatially huge, the pulsing swirling effect of the Golden Melody’s vibrato is peerless and is 100% tube driven, using no less than three 12AX7s. Reverb is 12AT7 transformer coupled with a full size Accutronics tank standard. Two Golden Melody Classic Lead style 12” speakers are used for rich clean and punchy overdriven tones. Two tone tolex with Victoria “Radio-lectric” logo.
MSRP $3495.00
For more information please contact
Victoria Amplifier at 630-820-6400.
TONEQUEST REPORT ELECTRO KING REVIEW
We have had so much interest in our new Electro King Amplifier that we are displaying a copy of the Tonequest Report article that we handed out at the winter NAMM show. Enjoy......
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