PRESS RELEASE

June, 2010, Naperville IL

Victoria Amplifier is proud to announce an important addition to its tweed family of vintage amps with the introduction of the IVY LEAGUE. The new Ivy League is a loving recreation of the classic 5F10 Fender Harvard style amplifier. Every aspect of the original model is reproduced in the Ivy League; triple inputs, 6AT6 7 pin preamp tube, twin 6V6 power tubes and a single 10" custom speaker. Like all Victorias, the Ivy League features all USA made components including resistors, capacitors, transformers, wire and hardware! (USA made vacuum tubes included when available.)

The Ivy League 5F10 is the quintessential recording amplifier, it's crisp clean tones and thunderous overdrive helping to define the modern notion of \"Tone\". The original 5F10's most infamous contribution to modern culture is the classic "Memphis" guitar sound. Itʼs 2 "fixed bias" 6V6's deliver 14 watts of push pull vacuum tube power that's warm and resonant when caressed and harmonically explosive when pushed into clipping. The unique 6AT6 input tube circuit with it's triple padded inputs are singular to this amplifier. All this conspires to make the Ivy League a studio friendly amp like no other, making this legendary time-tested performance available for guitarists everywhere for the first time in 50 years.

PRESS RELEASE

March 5, 2010, Naperville IL

Victoria Amplifier is thrilled to announce that its VIC105 amplifier will be featured at the Chicago Museum Of Contemporary Art from March 5th - 28th. As part of UBSs New Artists series, 14 discreet VIC105's will be supplying the soundstage for the 12X12 'White/Light' exhibit. White/Light is the interactive anthropo-sonic creation of Matthew Clark and Jeremy Lemos www.jeremylemos.com . "We knew that we needed an amp that had powerful sonic, visual and industrial attributes" says Clark. "The VIC105 is so perfectly integrated to this end, that itʼs astonishing. It's equally valuable as an artistic expression as it is a ultilitarian one. It's just brilliant!" Lemos added, "The VIC105 is ideal! It has wit, soul, and tone! It's a blessing to utilize it in White/Light."

The 14 VIC105s are being used to power White Light's various guitars, tape loops, turntables and computer triggering elements that are interactive with the viewer. The exhibit, sponsored by UBS, will also feature special guest performers throughout the month.

The VIC105 is an all tube, all purpose amplifier hand built in Naperville IL by Victoria Amplifier Co. The VIC105 features dual EL-84 power tubes which are switchable from 5-10 watts. An all-analog tunable boost function provides a limitless variety of sonic possibilities. The VIC105 also features a 12AX7 preamp tube and a 6CA4 tube rectifier. Each VIC105 is built into a refabricated US military surplus 50 cal. ammo can for unparalleled industrial good looks and protection. White/Light is sponsored by UBS.

link to exhibit on the Museum of Contemporary Art's site

Victoria Amplifier NEW for 2010

Jan 1, 2010, Naperville IL

VIC105 .50 Cal Ammo Can Amplifier

Designed specifically for a world where hard service and big tone is critical, the VIC105 is right and ready for your next sonic assault. Using actual re-fabricated US ARMY 50 cal ammunition cans, the VIC105 is a handwired, switchable single/dual EL-84 powered amplifier that’s poised for front line action! A switchable half power switch, which toggles between single ended and push pull operation, is mated with a tunable boost switch which is ideal for those low volume sonic spy missions..Through a 4X12 cab it has more than enough gas for all but the largest gigs, and the half power and boost functions allow for rich tube tone for the most intimate settings. Like serenading an undercover double agent named Maria behind enemy lines perhaps? No worries! The VIC105 will inspire to conspire in all of your aural espionage needs!

The circuit features:

• 1 12AX7, 2 EL-84, 1 6CA4/EZ-81 tubes.
• A half power-full power switch, which toggles between single tube/single ended and dual tube push-pull operation.
• Self splitting output tube inverter ( A Victoria 1st for guitar amps)
• Boost switch with tuning control.
• Custom paper/tube US made power and output transformers
• 4 and 8 ohm speaker outs.
• Custom backlit see-thru space age Lexan chassis plate
• IEC cord and speaker cable included.
• MSRP $1495.00
• MADE IN THE USA through and through
• Victoria Amp Co. VIC105

PRESS RELEASE

Nov 26, 2009, Naperville IL

Possibly the Highest Mileage Victoria Amp Comes Back to the Shop for a Photo Shoot

Here's a real workhorse! This amp began service in January 1996 and has been a mainstay of the stage backline at Buddy Guys Legends nightly ever since.. This particular amp has been used literally every night of the week for the past 14 years! that's over 100,000 hours of hard time! It's hard to imagine the luminaries that have plugged in to speak the blues through this baby..Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Jeff Beck Otis Rush, and hundreds and hundreds of performers have stretched the strings through this Victoria 45410. When one glances onstage at Buddy Guys legendary club, it easy to mistake this gem as a beat up old Fender, but the tone and reliability are unmistakable! Victoria 45410 #196 (1-96), we salute your unfailing service to the blues! Here's to another 14 strong years of preaching the blues!

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PRESS RELEASE

Oct 21, 2008, Naperville IL

Victoria Amplifier Lays Down the Tone for the United States Military at Camp Liberty, Iraq!

When Cpt Matt Hamrick put out the call that 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry at Camp Liberty, Baghdad, needed a battle ready guitar amplifier, Victoria Amplifier Co. responded with the finest USA manufactured tonal armaments available. A combat capable 2 Stroke amplifier was custom assembled and is now in service "Ready & Forward" advancing Freedom, conquering Evil and spreading the spirit of American Rock, Rhythm & Blues at Camp Liberty, Baghdad.

Chaplain Cpt. Hamrick related that the official issue guitar amp was sick "and doesnʼt really work most of the time", a morally unacceptable situation that Victoria Amplifier realized they were uniquely qualified to resolve. " It's a great honor to know that our amplifiers see duty on professional music stages across the world every night..It is an even greater honor to contribute an amplifier to our brave troops who are advancing American ideals and freedoms in Iraq." harked Mark Baier of Victoria Amp Co. "It's patriots like Cpt Hamrick that allow us to pursue the American Dream. Those soldiers kick ASS, and they deserve the best"

Hamrick and Camp Liberty were provided with a 1X12 "2Stroke" combo. The 2Stroke is a stripped down, fire breathing tonal tour' d force whose hand wired, mil-spec construction is taylor-made for forward deployment. It features a tube compliment of a single 5V4, 6L6GC and 12AX7, and simple bare bones circuit that will always be reliable in the face of enemy assault..In an additional serendipitous twist of fate, Victoria was able to utilize surplus military vacuum tubes in the manufacture of this particular amp. Hamricks 2Stroke is fitted with 100% "JAN" glass (JAN stands for 'joint army navy' and is the military appellation given to the specially tested battle ready vacuum tubes). 10 years ago, the military sold off all of their vacuum tube stocks, evidently never thinking that they would be needed for combat-zone tone deployment. "I knew that these tubes were destined to see service in a combat scenario," Baier continues, "Sure, it's ironic that I had to buy them from the government in order to put them into that service, but dammit, that's how destiny works! I'm just a beard! I just feel glad to have been there to intervene in their fate!! God Bless those brave men and women and this great country!"