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This 12W Bartel Amps Sugarland built in Baltimore MD by master amp builder Mark Bartel features some new appointments. This is the first Sugarland to ship with Bartel’s new Black color scheme. Loaded with a Fane A60 speaker & push-pull bright cap on the output volume control.

From Bartel Amps:

All three Signature Series amplifiers bring a new level of innovation and refinement to the crafting of vintage tones.  Distinctive design features like instrument-grade cabinetry, a purist multi-voice preamp, and interstage transformer based design set them part from conventional guitar amplifiers.   The result is a strikingly different kind of sound – deep and resonant,  detailed and present, but also smooth and balanced at the same time.  They respond like an acoustic instrument and fill the room with a lively, present, and totally unconstricted tone.

The 12W Sugarland is a purist design, all tube 1×12 combo powered by a pair of 6V6 tubes.  Its’ single channel Multi Voice preamp offers an incredibly wide range of voicings ranging from sparkly cleans to thick, woody tweed to driven plexi crunch and grind.   The solid wood cabinet with unified baffle/body construction delivers a lively, deeply resonant, and unconstricted sound.  A unique master volume circuit is extremely transparent, maintaining the same sound and vivid presence all the way down to bedroom volume.

Features:

12W 1x12 Combo Amplifier

All Tube, Handwired Circuitry

Single Channel Multi-Voice Preamp

Innovative Master Volume Control

Line Out

Dimensions 20" x 17" x 10.5"

Weight 33lbs

Construction Highlights

Circuitry handwired on custom fabricated turret boards

Paper Bobbin Layer Wound Transformers

Silver Plated Wire

Handmade Leather Handle by Brookwood Leather

Custom molded knobs and other appointments

Tweed covering material finished with 5 hand-brushed coats of lacquer

Cabinet

Unified body/baffle construction

Cabinet body: solid Eastern White Pine

Baffle board: crafted from 12 pieces of solid Eastern White Pine and African Mahogany 

Special recipe coating compound applied to preserve natural acoustic behavior.

Upholstery applied with natural hide glue for superior acoustic response.

Fane A60 12” Alnico Speaker

Design Highlights

Tubes: 2x12AX7A, 2x12AU7, 2x6V6GT, 1x5Y3GT

Interstage transformer coupled phase inverter

Ideal circuit layout for lowest noise floor and purest tone 

Cathode biased output stage

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