Sound Pure's Take

This may be our pick for best bedroom amp despite it being able to keep up at much louder volumes. Those sweet sparkly cleans give you all the clarity you need and more, plus the reverb tank will have you feeling weightless. What's more, when you crank the volume for the first time you'll fall in love with Dr. Swart's dirty fuzz tone. 

From Swart Amplifiers

Roll back the clocks to 1965 visually and 1967 aurally. Add some of the biggest tube reverb on either side of the Mason-Dixon line. Crank that ole first chicken head knob to the right till it stops and prepare to scare yourself with the biggest, baddest fuzz tone you've ever heard.
 
Why mess with those cleans when this sounds so damn good? To hell with chores, work, tikes, rent, that Vincent Black Shaldow you were dreaming about... Man, you're plugged into a three-dimensional Sonic Lava Lamp!
 
Yep, Dr. Swart has done it...again. And all this before you've even even TRIED the cleans! Don't worry, they're there. Just ease that ole chicken head back a bit.
 
This little monster is such a blast to crank but equally at home down low where it's open, lively, with a bit of chime. But it's hard to resist bringing the volume up, though. And that 12AX7/12DW7 driven Reverb is larger than life.

5W CLASS A ~ BIG sounding w/Monster fuzz tone at max!

Single-Ended Output - Zero Negative Feedback

100% Tube Circuit - GZ34 Valve Rectifier (5Y3 or 5U4)

Big, Lush Swart Tube Reverb - Foot Switchable

Powered by choice of 6V6 ~ 6L6 Family

JJ 12AX7(2) - JJ 12DW7 - EH 6V6GT - JJ GZ34 Rectifier

Point to Point Hand Wired Circuit

Cathode Biased (no need to bias)

Carbon Comp Resistors ~ Mallory Caps

Cloth Hook-Up Wire

Hi/Lo Input for High & Low powered Pickups

Heaters referenced to ground

Standby Switch for tube warm-up, extending tube life

All Swart Amplifiers employ Star Grounding

4/8 ohm 1/4" Out - Drive other Speaker/Cabinet

Switchcraft 1/4 inch inputs and output

CTS Potentiometers

Custom High Quality USA Built Heyboer Iron

Speaker: 12" Mojotone BV-30H ~ 8 ohm

Finger-Jointed, solid Pine Cab w/ Retro Tolex Covering

Vintage Jewel Lamp ~ Circuit Fuse Protected

Dimensions: 15 7/8 T x 16 3/8W  x 9 1/4 D   ~  28lbs

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