Foundling Audio Labs Scalawag GSE-7 w/ Attenuator - 7 Watt Point-To-Point Wired Single-Ended KT66 Tube Guitar Amp

Foundling Audio Labs "SCALAWAG" - Model GSE-7
Hand Built, Point-To-Point Wired, 7W Single-Ended KT66 Class-A Guitar Amplifier.

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NOTE: This amp will be built to order, so many customization options are available. These can be viewed at our website. Turnaround time is generally within two weeks. Photos are of previous builds. Please feel free to DM with any questions at all.

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The GSE-7 “Scalawag” is a handmade miniature guitar head / tabletop tube amp designed to drive any 8-ohm speaker cabinet via its 1/4″ output jack. For best results, an open-back 1×12 cab is recommended. It will piggyback wonderfully on many common combo amp cabinets giving amazing new voice to something you may already have sitting around.

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DESCRIPTION

Foundling Audio Labs “Scalawag” – Model GSE-7

Hand Built 7W Single-Ended KT66 Class-A Guitar Amplifier.

The Scalawag is:

• Hand built with meticulous care in the USA
• 100% point-to-point wired with absolutely no PCBs
• Comprised of top-quality parts and components, exhaustively chosen and artfully combined
• Unapologetically overbuilt for a solid, substantial feel of intrinsic quality

Tasting Notes

In keeping with everything that's right about our first guitar amps, the new Scalawag delivers the same incomparably slinky touch and fine sensitivity with a lush, British-flavored power stage. It's true. By deliberately underutilizing a single, legendary KT66 power tube in class A operation, we do leave a lot of potential wattage on the table. Sure. But sometimes literal efficiency isn't the point. And what we gain here in exchange for that sacrificed loudness is a ridiculously generous bloom of uncanceled second-order harmonics over an exquisitely rich, evenly textured overdrive that is as searing as it is defined. It's definitely not something I've ever heard from a push-pull configuration. (IYKYK, amiright?)

So this model produces a little over 7 watts compared to my earlier 5-watt builds, but again, the goal here wasn't really more volume. Rather it was a smooth, British-style counterpart to my thick-necked American original. The KT66's unique operating point makes for mids that are wonderfully present indeed, but they are still fantastically balanced, and therefore never fatiguing.

A few words flying around the studio during our tests include: growling, spongy, articulate, biting, sweet, energetic, bright, singing, soaring, hot damn, and motherf%#$&r. Samples are can be heard in the demo video provided.

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More nitty gritty.

• 12AX7 dual triode (two-stage pre-amp) with a single KT66 power tube.
• Heavy-duty Hammond transformers
• Belton tube sockets
• Switchcraft jacks
• Tocos Potentiometer (single volume control)
• Mod, Kemet and/or Vishay Elecrolytic Capacitors (dep. upon availability)
• Cornell-Dubilier Film Capacitors (coupling)
• Metal film resistors with 5W wire wound cathode bias resistor
• Shielded input leads
• Jewell-type pilot light
• 6′ braided cloth power cable
• Chrome-plated steel handle
• Precision, High-Watt, Audio-grade Resistors and Carling toggle switch (for attenuator-equipped amps)
• Dimensions: 11″ L x 5″ D x 6″ H
• Weight: 6 lbs.
• 5-Year Limited Warranty