Carol-Ann 10th Anniversary Limited Head
- DESCRIPTION
The Carol-Ann 10th Anniversary Amp is a nod to the first Carol-Ann amp that Alan Phillips built here in the states. 10 years of expertise and development have gone into the design and build of this amp, and only 10 of these amps were produced and sold in the world!
The 10th Anniversary is designed to be an amp that allows guitar players to really dial-in and fine tune their overdriven tone. It's a single channel, 50 watt, EL34 based circuit that features a full 3 band EQ with Presence and Master Volume controls. In addition, Alan has incorporated his "Feel" control (also used on the Satin). As with the Satin, the 10th Anniversary's Feel control allows you to adjust the overall feel of the amp from super smooth to a more aggressive response. This amp can dial in British Plexi style tones and cranked up you can achieve Tucana 3 style overdriven tones! Maxed out this amp can push right into Triptik levels on gain!
Some of your may be wondering where the Clean Channel is on this amp. Well, it's built right into the Volume control on your guitar. The 10th Anniversary makes use of a lot of preamp gain and is thus very responsive to your guitar's volume control essentially turning it into a gain knob! The Volume control on the amp is more of a gain control, but keeping to Alan's original design, calling this knob the Volume just seemed appropriate.
The Carol-Ann 10th Anniversary also feature two switches on the front panel: Sparkle and Hot. The "Sparkle" switch adds sparkley highs to your tone and operates the same throughout the full range of the Volume control. With many amps, when you have a bright cap in your circuit, the highs roll off as you increase the signal. Not the case with the 10th Anniversary, it's very effective when cleaning up the amp when using the guitar volume. The "Hot" switch acts similarly to the Hi/Lo inputs on other amps, but gives you the ease of alternating between them at the flip of a switch. In the hot position more gain and tighter more prominent low end is achieved.
With all the controls you can dial in a huge range of overdriven tones, and even get some great cleans as well!
Specs:
- Power: 50 Watts
- Power Tubes: 2 x EL34
- Preamp Tubes: 3 x 12AX7
- Rectification: Solid State Rectified
- Effects Loop: Tube Buffered Effects Loop (Tube: 1 x 5751)
- Controls: Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass, Master, Presence, Feel
- Switches: Sparkle, Hot
- Outputs: 8 & 16 Ohms
- Limited to only 10 heads worldwide
