GYPSY 15 Series
Hand crafted for the serious artist with the finest components and construction, and engineered for durability, clarity, sensitivity and a wide range of tone options.
The “15 Series” is a lower wattage design that develops power tube saturation at reasonable volume levels. Plenty of clean headroom in the preamp section that can sing when pushed hard. The 15 Series excels in the studio or for live performance and is voiced for maximum flexibility in a straightforward single channel design. It can make smooth transitions from clean to overdrive and effortlessly navigate between American and British tones. Extremely touch sensitive to capture and convey every nuance and emotion of your playing style.
Clean tones are warm and thick with an abundance of harmonic overtones. Overdrive can be dialed in with the amp’s volume control and maintains articulation even at higher gain settings. Extreme sensitivity to changes in your guitar volume and tone settings. Outboard pedals and effects work well, whether directly into the front or through the serial buffered FX loop. Integrated adjustable boost is foot switchable and ideal as a lead boost or adding a little extra push.
RUGGED BUILD QUALITY
· Premium components and switching – military grade and premium brands
· Finest hand wired construction and layout techniques
· Custom output transformers from Mercury Magnetics and ClassicTone
· Toroidal power transformers for increased efficiency and low noise
· New old stock (NOS) tubes…they simply sound better and are less susceptible to filament noise
· Current limiter on cold start to protect tube filaments and filter capacitors
· Silver wire and solder for maximum electron transfer, strength, reliability
· Strong 12-gauge aluminum chassis with stainless steel hardware
· Multiple protection points - main fuse, internal surge protection, dual high tension internal fuses and flyback voltage spike protection
· All amps are burned-in, stabilized, voiced for superior tone and checked with thermal imaging
· 11-ply birch cabinetry with finger jointed corners
AMP SPECS/FEATURES
· 15 watts, class AB power
· Single Channel
· 12” Weber Legacy ceramic speaker, voiced for this design
· Variable boost – LED footswitch included
· Effects Loop – Solid State, serial routing, buffered and switchable full bypass
· Combination Bright (up) and Warm (down) switch with standard voicing (middle)
· Master Volume – operates post-phase inverter and retains the rich character of the power tubes at lower volumes
· Insanely touch sensitive
· Equipped with hand selected and tested vintage tubes
· 6V6 NOS power standard - hand selected tubes, burned in to prevent drifting
· Cathode biased to replicate vintage tones, no need to adjust bias when changing power tubes
· Cathodyne phase inverter, like many vintage amps but designed to keep low end saturated but more firm
· Solid state rectifier