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Victoria amps are actually really great and pretty
common in the Bay Area. I haven't seen too many down
here in Southern California. I've played their 4X10
version of the '59 Fender bassman and it is much, much
better than the Fender. Tighter, warmer, and it has
the option to have a built-in 3 knob reverb like on a
vibroking.
Sick amps, buy one if you can afford it.
Damon
--- Brian Neal <> wrote:
> Not much surf guitar content here except for the
> reverb units:
>
> A new guitar store opened up in my town and I paid a
> visit over lunch.
> Nothing really exciting in the guitar department,
> except for a very odd 1965
> Vox "Phantom" guitar. Three single coil pickups, a
> zero fret, big funky
> tremolo like a Bigsby, a Jazzmaster/Jaguar looking
> bridge and saddles
> (except bridge was very low to the body), and it had
> a string mute! The mute
> was this weird contraption that pivoted on the
> bridge itself. The muting
> material had long petrified or fossilized (I assume
> it was some kind of foam
> rubber at one time). And the guitar had that weird
> rhombus/parallelogram/whatever Vox shape.
>
> But in the amp department, this place was going for
> the boutique angle I
> think. They had amps from amp makers I had never
> heard of: CARR, Victoria
> Amp Co, and some others that sounded European. All
> cosmetically gorgeous,
> all tube jobs, most of them 2x12" combos, around 50W
> or so, and all around
> the $3000 mark!
>
> They had two Victoria Amp Co reverb units, one in
> black tolex and the other
> brown. Both had reverb and tremelo and looked all
> tube. Physically they were
> larger than the Fender units. I think they were
> called "Reverberato". And
> get this....$1495.00!!! Yikes.
>
> Here are some links
>
>
>
>
> (Who played these? British
> Invasion bands?)
>
>
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