NEWS FLASH! CLUB AMPS WILL BE AT THE EAST COAST AMP SHOW ON SATURDAY 10 MAY 2008. MARK YOUR CALENDERS! CANCEL YOUR OTHER PLANS! THE AMP SHOW IS WHERE YOU WILL WANT TO BE!
IF YOU ARE ON THE EAST COAST AND WANT TO HEAR A CLUB AMP LIVE-AND-IN-PERSON THIS IS A GREAT CHANCE. WE WILL HAVE "LITTLE MONSTER" 50W COMBOS WITH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN, CLASSIC BRITISH AND VELVET CRUNCH VOICING (details below). WE WILL HAVE THE 20W BLUES COMBO. WE WILL HAVE A REALLY GREAT 50W 2X15 STACK, A 20W "INTENSE" HEAD, A REALLY SWEET 30W 5881 HEAD, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE. BY REQUEST WE'LL HAVE THE CLUB 301 PROTOTYPE AND MAYBE EVEN A CLUB REVERB PROTOTYPE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN ASKING TO HEAR THEM BEFORE THE PRODUCTION RELEASE.
DON'T FORGET THE RAFFLE. WE WILL CONTRIBUTE A 20W HEAD WITH 1X15 (custom Weber 15) CAB. THAT'S $1600 OF CLUB GEAR TO ONE LUCKY ATTENDEE. WILL YOU BE HOLDING THE LUCKY TICKET?
WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE EAST COAST AMP SHOW. REMEMBER, THAT'S SATURDAY 10 MAY 2008! FOR DETAILS GO TO WWW.AMPSHOW.COM.
Updated 10 April 2008. Remember, Club Amplifiers' products are built to order. It typically takes 10-18 working days from order placement to product shipment. We will close the week before and after the amp show, so please place your orders with that in mind.
 Congratulations! You've found us; Club
Amplifiers. For 40 years we've been making great vacuum tube guitar
amplifiers for musicians looking for the "right sound" for every
performance. I'm Don Anderson, founder of Club Amplifiers, and I want
to thank you for making it this far. I hope we'll make beautiful music together.
Club Amps are known for taking classic amp tone to a new level. Classic rock musicians thrive on the solid bottom end and the articulate clarity even in overdrive. Our blues amps go beyond the best of the classics with a very special blues timbre and the depth and clarity that Club Amps are known for. Country artists get crisp, clean mids and highs with just a ton of punch, yet without being brittle. And, for jazz a Club Amp with the standard output transformer offers sweet, rich, smooth articulate clarity.
As you can see from the pictures, Club Amps aren't fancy. The focus is on being musical, strong, reliable and timeless. You won't make a fashion statement with a Club Amp, you'll make great music. Of course, simple elegance and "classic black" are always in fashion. Club Amps are designed and built for the club and studio musician. You know, you don't have roadies yet. You pack your own gear. As you cruise the site you will see that we believe volume control with speakers is a great way for the club or studio musician to sound their best no matter what the gig. This 1x12 combo stacked on a 1x15 extension cab is a typical example. But, check the "Little Monster" if you really want "compact without compromise!"
Available standard in three tonal configurations, each model 5010 is a 50W combo with a specially voiced Weber ten inch speaker with high power handling capability. As you can see, very, very small, but they have a really big punch.
 5010A-American Tone
The classic American version features a 50W 6L6 chassis with 5AR4 tube rectifier and a speaker that can support rock, jazz or blues.
5010B-British Tone
The "B" model chassis puts out 55W with EL34 output tubes and a solid state HexFred rectifier. The speaker has a British cone for bell-like mids and highs.
5010C-Velvet Crunch
The "C" model uses the 6L6 50W chassis with a speaker with a "50s" vintage smooth cone. It is extremely warm and crunchy for road-house blues and rock. At lower power levels it has a great jazz voice with a velvety retro warmth.
For the ultimate in "volume control" from studio and
small clubs to really loud venues, consider the "Little Monster" with a 15
inch extension cab. It's sweet.
Looking for something small, but not so powerful? Also available with a 30W 5881 chassis and the classic American cone speaker; an excellent choice for warm, rich, clean jazz or punchy classic rock.
We're starting to get lots of interest in the new Classic Club 301. What is it? What makes it different? For one thing, it's got hot cathode biasing (what some call class A) like an AC30. Most of the Club Amps are fixed biased. Like the AC30 it has 4 EL84s in the output stage. But, it has a unique configuration of the output; actually two 15W hot cathode biased output stages. One can be turned off for smaller gigs when you really only want 15W. It's an interesting mix of Vox AC15, AC30, Marshall 1974, 2061, yet uniquely "Club". Much stronger bottom end than the Vox. Much more versatile than the Marshalls. We dare to compare to these great amps because we have nothing but respect for Vox and Marshall. The Club 301 is a really great amp for the club musician. Our thanks to Jason Link for his assistance as we defined many of the features. The name "Club 301" honors Jason's grandfather. It will be available soon.
A quote posted on the webpage "thegearpage.net" after the Amp Show:
"***Gem of the Show***
Club Amplifiers.
Blew me away. Everyone else really makes good stuff but this one stood
out for me. Very simple designs but sounds that will blow you away. I
cannot beleive how much low end I was pulling out of the 2x10's. I
played a couple 1x15's too...insane. Very sturdy stuff. Don makes them
how ever you want... you can custom make anything for a killer price.
I hope to order a 20 watt 6V6 head soon.... Again, super sound. great transformers!!!"
My thanks to "Radium" for this quote.
Loni Specter's Los Angeles Amp Show, held 6 October at the Van Nuys Airtel, was a great opportunity and experience. I counted 43 amp manufacturers, from small operations like Club Amplifiers to Fender, Mesa Boogie, Randall and Vox. If you aren't familiar with the Amp Shows, each exhibitor has their own room(s) where musicians can play through the amps. Just as there was a continuum from large to small companies there was a range of amplifier styles being exhibited. Some (many) were clearly targeting high gain to extreme overdrive. You could hear some really great musicians putting the overdrive amps through their paces. A special thanks to the folks at Hero Amps a short ways down the hall. They have some great 50W-100W stacks that can be played from clean to killer overdrive. They were also very friendly and gracious. If you are looking for something a little bigger than your typical Club Amp I encourage you to check them out.
Club Amps got great reviews for tone. Tone clearly means different things to different people, but the folks who played blues and jazz called the Club Amps "sweet, pure, rich, full, articulate, robust, aggressive and expressive" and a number of other similar adjectives. The musicians who rocked harder had great things to say about how articulate the amps remained even as the went into overdrive and how "classic" and robust they sounded.
 A special thanks to all of you who visited the Club Amplifiers exhibit at the LA Amp Show. We were proud to present broad mix of our amplifiers.
 Jim Wright, representing Warr guitars, presented a great jazz performance. As you can see from this photo the Warr guitar (www.warrguitars.com) is combination guitar and bass. Jim is playing through the 55W 1x10 combo (at times with the 1x15 Chicago classic ext cab) for guitar and the 50W EL34 head with 4x12 cab for the bass. What you can't see from these photos was that the room was packed and the audience loved the performance.
 During the show Jim commented that even though the 50W EL34/4x12 was a guitar amp it sounded great with the bass half of his unique guitar. After the show he wrote:
"I wanted to write and say how much I enjoyed the sound of your
amplifiers when I had the pleasure of playing my Warr Guitar through
them at the amp show this weekend.
You really know your stuff, and the amps sound fantastic. My
favorite was the smallest one, as it gave the nicest jazz tone.
However, I found that, indeed, all the amps were flavored for each
style of music as you described, and your tones were all right on!"
 The 20W 6V6 blues combo, shown to the right of the artist in the middle of this picture, was very popular. It was characterized as having "kind of a blackface Deluxe vibe, but a lot deeper and richer".
 As the show wound down I was able to take more pictures. During this jam Tim Drnec on the left was playing through the 20W 6V6 blues combo while the player on the right is using the 5010B with 55W EL34 chassis and a high power Weber 10.
 Our last visitor of the day, Bob Holt. In this shot you get a look at the back of the 50W 6L6 tube rectifier head sitting on a 1x15 cab with classic 50s cone. Earlier in the day one of our guests remarked that to him it sounded remarkably like a $10,000 Dumble. I've never heard a Dumble in person so I can't be sure if his comment is true, but he brought in several friends who agreed. It sounded like a compliment to me.
 If you recognize yourself in any of these pictures please send us an email and identify yourself. At times things were seriously busy with 12 or more people in the room. I did a very poor job of collecting names as I took pictures.
 Since I've got some space here I want to include a
special thanks to Ken and Paul of Kenscabs. Ken and Paul created two
combo cabs and a 1x15 extension cab for this show. If all goes well
Ken will be building extension cabs for Club Amplifiers in the future.
He builds a really great cab and the collaboration will allow us to be
more responsive to your special requests for cabs.
 Spencer Brady checking out a Club Amp. We were pleased to see a number of very talented young musicians. I wish I could play as well as Spencer. He represents the future of music. What more can I say! Way cool.
We build amps as our primary mission. You could say our permanent web site is still under construction, but at the moment our priority is on building amps. While we've been making custom guitar amps for a very long time, we are new to the web. This site will be replaced sometime soon, but soon is a subjective statement. We are now "good-to-go" with credit card transactions and we can accept Paypal. Because everything we make is to customer criteria the normal "shopping carts" of e-commerce don't work very well. We're working on a best way to enter orders with custom criteria, but using an online shopping cart. When we figure that out we'll create a new site.
This site contains a lot of information, perhaps more than many musicians would want. But, over the years we've found that our happiest clients are the ones who have put some serious thought and research into what they "really" want. If you are not familiar with our company or our product I encourage you to start by taking a look at the "Products" page. Check out the product page first, then take a careful look at the About Us page and "Why Club Amps?" We've been building amps for a very long time. We make a really great amp. I hope we'll be building an amp for you soon.
Please send comments and inquiries to info@clubamps.com.
Thanks again for taking the time to visit.
Don Anderson
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