The PHD: a true class A, single-end amplifier pushing 10 watts of Z power through a single KT66 power tube with an octal 6SL7 preamp tube. Big bottles! No small tubes here, big bottles, big tone, but small package as we release this amp in a red 1x10 cabinet with salt & pepper grill, weighing under 30 lbs. Black heads with salt/pepper grill are also available.

The aim for this amp came from approaching the ever popular low-wattage combo market of tweed Champs, blackface Princetons, and even looking to rarer amps like the tweed Harvard and making improvements on these designs. There’s still the raunchy class A distortion character of taking a single power tube to the brink, but with both big bottle tubes in this amp, we get a broader bandwidth with greatly improved headroom for pedalboard players. Unlike many of these smaller amps, I wanted to make sure the PHD was not a one-trick pony and could be utilized clean, wound up and rocked out, and all shades in-between. It has a simple, short signal path with just three controls: volume, tone, master, and is married up to a highly resonant 1/2” ply 1x10 cabinet in red with salt/pepper grill loaded with a WGS G10 C/S 10” speaker.