Texas Tone Texas Tone 12 2025 Blonde

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You want a small combo amp, with killer tremolo, that can get that sweet and creamy tube crunch without splitting your eardrums, yet still have enough clean headroom to play those clean fills? This is it.

The Texas Tone® 12 is my signature amp, the one that started it all, and my most popular model.  Incredibly touch sensitive and dynamic, it has those crisp cleans and crunchy punch & pop that only a good tube amp can provide - and that you expect.  Couple that with my unique, old-school, grid-bias tremolo that pulses with that "Hypnotic Slam Effect" and you have a highly portable 12-Watt combo amp perfect for Indie, blues, country, pop, and rock, whether on stage, in the studio, or at home. 

The Texas Tone® 12 exemplifies the touch-sensitive dynamics that vintage tube amps are famous for.  Control your picking attack, tone and volume from your guitar, and you'll be amazed at the touch dynamics!  The Texas Tone 12™ responds to your input in a way that defines touch sensitivity.  You won't have trouble finding your sweet spot!  For clean, country picking, plug into the #2 input, crank the Volume and Tone to 10, and let 'er rip.  For blues or rock, plug into the #1 input, and crunch to your heart's delight.

Rather than the simple treble cut like most one knob Tone controls that make for muddy tone and lower volume as tiy turn them down, the Texas Tone 12® has a frequency filter EQ that is independent of the volume control.  Sensitive yet subtle, this EQ control gives you wide tonal variety without taking over your sound.

The grid bias tremolo circuit is lush and wide-ranging, a cycling pulsating tremolo that you've not likely heard before.  It's not harsh like optical cut-off type tremolo circuits, but a Hypnotic Slam Effect that can be activated using the included foot switch.

You'll be surprised at the variety of tones you can achieve with the Texas Tone® 12.

Speaking of sound, when you play, you want to hear the sound of your guitar- not unwanted noise. Towards that end, the Texas Tone® 12 uses shielded input cables and a distributed grounding scheme to eliminate unwanted noise and hum from both internal and external sources.  High voltage filtering is increased over traditional tweed-type circuits to provide a lower noise floor and a tighter bass response (A tube rectifier still allows for that creamy, compressed distortion that you've come to love from vintage cathode-biased amps). You'll want to see the power on light to verify that the amp is turned on!

The 'Texas Tone 12' amp from Blumentritt Amplification [has] the crisp cleans, and crunchy punch and pop I'm always looking for... it is definitely the sound of Austin, Texas, right there. They are really good. Incredibly clean tones, they love pedals. It’s the amp Fender should be making! - Mark Daven,

• Select tubes in each position:
• • New JJ 6V6S Double Mica Matched Power Tubes in a 12W push pull circuit
  • New JJ E86CC shock mounted low noise preamp tube
  • NOS GE 7247 phase splitter/tremolo driver
  • New JJ tube rectifier
• High and Low gain inputs
• Volume, EQ, and Tremolo Speed and Depth controls
• Foot-switchable Tremolo
• Cathode Bias
• Rugged Steel Chassis
• MIL-Spec, high-temperature wire and resistors
• Low-noise resistors
• Shielded cables
• Jensen C12Q Speaker

Includes a Custom Amp Covers amplifier cover, 12FT power cable, and tremolo footswitch. 
Mud Stand and Vintage Guitars Jerry Donahue V58JDAB Reissue guitar not included.

CURRENT LEAD TIME: Build in Process