Carl's Custom Amps British Champion 8 inch Combo Champ meets Plexi

Carl's Custom Amps  British Champion 8 Inch Combo

Carl's Custom Amps is in high demand. Please allow 9 to 12 weeks to be built, tested, and shipped.

One of my most popular amps is my Classic Tweed Champ. In fact Tweed Champ style amps are some of the most popular amps on the market today for two good reasons: they sound great and are very portable! The Champ is an amazing low volume recording amp with great 50’s American Tweed tones but what about players who want a similar feature set but a brasher more British tone? That’s where the British Champion comes in! It’s a mixture of the great Plexi tone and the Tweed Champ tone. Part Champ and part Plexi. Loaded with a El-84 it puts out 5W glorious watts into a beefy 8 inch speaker. The result is a great, killer British tone akin to the early Marshall amps with health dose of tweed champ.

12 inch speaker combo also available.

Features:

5 Watts All Tube Power (One El-84, one 12AX7 and one 5Y3 Rectifier Tube)

• Meticulously Hand-wired
• Improved grounding system and layout minimizes hum noise
• Single Volume Control
• Hi and Low inputs
• 8 ohm Speaker Out

Parts

Beefy Weber 8F125T speaker, Custom Wound transformers, Switchcraft and  Cliff Jacks and plugs, Mallory 150, Vishay, and Panasonic tone caps, Long Life Filter Caps, Special resistor selection for the best tone and least noise, finger joined pine cab on combos.

Customer Comments:

“OMG!

I'm on cloud nine!

This really does sound like an old Marshall at listenable dBs!

Where has this been all of my life? I have owned,   and played through, many top notch amps, but this British Champ is , for my purposes,  by far the best!

About 15 years ago, I  bought a Marshall Custom Shop JTM 45 Offset head and cabinet.  It was fantastic,  but way too loud.  

This little amp of yours reproduces that vibe but in a much more manageable way.

Although still breaking it in, it is the most " organic " amp which I have played through.

It seems to breath and think what I am playing!

Other brands have included Mesa Boogie,  Fender Custom Shop,  Morgan, Suhr and Supro.

Keep doing what you are doing! “

Bernard D.

“Carl,

 Received the amp last night and I love it! I think plugging my strat straight in is all the tone I’ll ever need. I’ve got it dialed in for a tasty amount of overdrive

that I’m certain will fit in a mix at the next jam session. Also, the fit and finish is superb, holy cow!…..”

Ryan M.