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PG's Joe Coffey is On Location in Houston, TX, where he visits the Diamond Amplification factory. In this video segment, we get to hear two of Diamond's flagship heads; Phantom and Spitfire II. The 100-watt Phantom comes with 4-Svetlana Winged C EL34 and 6-12AX7 tubes. In addition, the front panel features two fully independent channels with Volume, Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Presence controls. It also comes with a 2-button footswitch, tube-driven effects loop and a "low focus switch on the rear panel. The low focus switch provides 3 positions low, mid, high. Moving from low to high, the player gets to focus the low end, tailored to his/her needs, with low end increasing relative to the highs allowing for more low end with more focus.

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Len on 05/21/2011	Come on. You're a professional guitar mag and you can't record an amp demo without distorting the sound?
syed haider on 07/28/2010	spitfire has a ratty sound but very fresh and natural.
Dan S. on 06/30/2009	The crunch sound on the Spitfire comes across as very ratty & nasty in a bad way. I wonder how it was mic'ed up. Did Joe Coffey use a traditional SM57, or is it the crappy camera mic being overloaded?
Rocky on 06/12/2009	The Spitfire rules

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