Rare, 100 watt Elgen amplifier from 1973, with Partridge transformers, original mustard & tropical fish capacitors & hand-wired throughout.

Like Marshalls, the early Elgen amps were based off of the 6G6 Bassman Circuit. However this is one of their later builds when they had settled on a more consistent design with the Lead (guitar) & Bass 100 watt amps.

It’s powered by three 12AX7 for the preamp & phase inverter & four EL34 in the power section & the insides of the amp is all original, complete with 1973 dated Partridge transformers, mustard and tropical fish capacitors & hand wired throughout.

Whilst this one is labled as a Bass amplifier, from comparing the schematics with the internals, we know that elements of both designs have been included. Conveniently, as this amp has both Bass & Treble EQ in the preamp & Top Boost & Presence controls in the feedback circuit, it works just as well for Guitar as it does for Bass.

The amp is available as just the head unit, it can converted to a combo, or can come with a matching T&T cabinet to your specification.

From the company who created the Fuzz-Face and who were behind Sound City amps, we bring you this crazy 150 watt beast.

Yep, it’s from the folks at CBS-Arbiter (previously Arbiter, then Dallas-Arbiter), and we are assuming it’s an early 70’s model from the ‘louder is better’ era, possibly after Dave Reeves left to start Hiwatt.

The design of the amp is pretty unusual for the time. It uses 6 EL34s to produce an awe-inspiring 150 watts of power, but the only 12AX7 is for the phase inverter. The preamp is a solid state FET preamp with active tone controls which were also a feature of the Sound City MK IV amps.

What’s cool about this amp is that it has a 4-band EQ with useful ‘low middle’ and ‘high middle’ controls.

The transformers are typically massive for the time, but the lack of 12AX7 preamp tubes means the overall size of the head is nice and compact for it’s output. You could almost say it was an early ‘lunch-box’ head.

60 watts of glorious, harmonically rich, chimey & crunchy British vintage power!

You can read more about Carlsbro amps here, but the specs for this beauty are:

• 60 watts of power from 2x EL34s, in a fixed bias, class AB push-pull arrangment.

• Dual input Treble and Bass channels, with independent two band EQ, and a master ‘Top Cut’ control.

• Two 12AX7 in the preamp & a single 12AX7 in the phase-invertor

If I had to describe the sound, I would put it in between a Marshall & a Hiwatt. It’s got a lovely chime to it, but can be push into a crystal clear crunch/bark when the channels are jumpered together.

It’s a real late 60’s early 70’s rock sound & perfectly conjures up the raw tones of AC/DC.

Rare 1960’s Carlsbro CS40 amplifier with stunning plexiglass control panel, heavyweight iron and all the mustardy trimmings.