Why Tube Amplifiers?

In the late 1960's, we believed the tube amp was dead. Solid state amplifiers were much more powerful, lighter in weight, more energy efficient and had magnificent frequency response way beyond the hearing range of most people. Well, simply put, they don't sound the same especially when used for electric guitars and other electronic instruments. Today, the tube amplifier is coming back into style. When you put the two types of amplifier side by side and play instruments through them. There is no question which one sounds better! Even when driven into distortion, the tube amplifier has a rich, warm sound that is musically pleasant.

What Kind of Tube Amplifiers do we make?

At this point The Tube Amp Factory has six hand crafted, point to point wired, Tube Amp Head designs available with power outputs from 10 to 35 Watts RMS. Our smallest is truely a 'Lunchbox' Amp the FB-5. It uses push-pull 6AQ5 tubes to deliver a solid 10 Watts. Next in line is the Model FB-10, a Push-Pull 6V6 class A model that delivers 14 Watts. This has become a fovorite for studio amplifier service because of its beautiful rich voicing. We then added an EL84 push pull Class AB1 model, the FB-10A, with 18 Watts and the FB10B, a 6L6GC (5881) Class AB1 fixed bias unit that delivers 35 Watts RMS. All of our amps have ouputs for 4, 8, or 16 Ohm speakers.

Now Available with Digital Reverb

By popular demand, we added reverb to create the FB10BR. This is our most popular gig guitar amplifier. Soon afterwards the FB30R was created with a quad of EL84's in the output, reverb and 30 Watts of 'British' sounding output with plenty of clean headroom.

Combo All Tube Guitar Amps available this year!

Presently in development is a Model FB-14CR. This is our first Combo Guitar amp based on the 6V6 tube built into a 1 X 12 Combo Cabinet with reverb. This looks like it could be the perfect amp for a serious student or church musician that wants to develop the best guitar sounds possible on a limited budget.

The Tube Amp Factory has searched the world wide to find quality tube amp parts at affordable prices to keep our Tube Guitar amplifier affordable, We are starting to offer our excess inventory for DIY fans. If you are looking for parts and can't find them, please drop us a line.

Take a Listen to our Model FB-10, 6V6 tube amplifier being played by Marc Dicenzo in the studios at Circa Music, in Dublin, OH:

Many thanks to Marc for his encouragement and for this great recording.