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I’ve had this amp now for almost 6 months. Life’s been crazy with another newborn and work, but in the times I do get to play, this has easily become my number one amp. I’ve been curious about the Victorys for a few years now, checking out a lot of the YouTube videos, but never playing one because the only dealers in the US are Riff City in MN and The Music Zoo in NY.
Through some twist of fate one of them had the head listed at a crazy discount, so I bought it. Two days later the other had a flash sale on the matching cab. So I ended up with the quarter stack for less than the head details for alone. Crazy.
I’ve loved my Princeton Reverb for years, but I’ve always wished for:
-More headroom at gig volumes
-Easier breakup at lower volumes
-Mid Control
My Mesa is great for the 6L6s and 2x12, but it weighs way too much (96lbs) and literally never leaves my house.
Enter the Victory. 42W/7W power modes, post phase inverted master volume, dual voice, mid-kick, three band EQ, tube driven Spring Reverb and Tremolo. The amp is advertised as voices between Fender cleans and early British breakup. I’d agree. Keep the channel volume lower and the mids down and it does a slightly fuller Fender thing. Roll in the volume, Voice 2 and mid kick and it’s like electric British blues. It takes pedals wonderfully, so well that I still can’t choose just a couple ODs for it, theyball sound great.
The vertical quarter stack is great. Light head (27.5 lbs) and manageable cabinet (47 lbs) loaded with G12M-65 Creambacks pairs nicely for clean and gain tones. These quarter stacks with good master volume would be an ideal club gigging amp, unless you need to go direct. The second speaker is nice and high and angled upward, the controls are at a reasonable height unlike a combo and it looks plain cool!
Anyway, here it is...
Through some twist of fate one of them had the head listed at a crazy discount, so I bought it. Two days later the other had a flash sale on the matching cab. So I ended up with the quarter stack for less than the head details for alone. Crazy.
I’ve loved my Princeton Reverb for years, but I’ve always wished for:
-More headroom at gig volumes
-Easier breakup at lower volumes
-Mid Control
My Mesa is great for the 6L6s and 2x12, but it weighs way too much (96lbs) and literally never leaves my house.
Enter the Victory. 42W/7W power modes, post phase inverted master volume, dual voice, mid-kick, three band EQ, tube driven Spring Reverb and Tremolo. The amp is advertised as voices between Fender cleans and early British breakup. I’d agree. Keep the channel volume lower and the mids down and it does a slightly fuller Fender thing. Roll in the volume, Voice 2 and mid kick and it’s like electric British blues. It takes pedals wonderfully, so well that I still can’t choose just a couple ODs for it, theyball sound great.
The vertical quarter stack is great. Light head (27.5 lbs) and manageable cabinet (47 lbs) loaded with G12M-65 Creambacks pairs nicely for clean and gain tones. These quarter stacks with good master volume would be an ideal club gigging amp, unless you need to go direct. The second speaker is nice and high and angled upward, the controls are at a reasonable height unlike a combo and it looks plain cool!
Anyway, here it is...
