
This family refresh updates the award-winning Sheriff family with a 25-watt compact head and combo to replace the Sheriff 22.
Victory Amplification is excited to announce the new Sheriff 25 and VS100 Super Sheriff amplifiers. This family refresh updates the award-winning Sheriff family with a 25-watt compact head and combo to replace the Sheriff 22. The Sheriff 44 has been replaced with the VS100 Super Sheriff amp, this comes in two deluxe head versions, one in a regular Victory-sized wooden head sleeve and the other a wide body design for 4×12 cabinets.
Maximum sound with minimum fuss is what the Sheriff family is built to deliver. The Sheriff 25 is a compact, yet versatile lunchbox head, with two channels of British rock sounds all in a small footprint. The vintage channel is designed for lower gain 60’s style of British blues and rock, whereas the hot rod channel is where the heavy high gain sounds are. In addition to the compact head, the Sheriff 25 comes in a 1×12 combo with a Celestion G12H anniversary speaker picked specifically for the Sheriff range.
If 100 watts of power is what you need, then the VS100 Super Sheriff is for you. Designed to take over from the Sheriff 44, this 100 Watt beast has all the power and gain you could ever need. Simple in design but with so much versatility. The vintage channel has two gain modes, there is the cleaner side and the crunch side, both are in the classic rock style of the late 60’s, early 70’s. The hot-rodded channel is all about late 70’s to 80’s gain and has two modes, with the second one adding even more gain!
The Super Sheriff is housed in a classic deluxe wooden sleeve and for the first time we are offering the Sheriff in a wide-body wooden head to match our 4×12 cabinets. There is a presence and bass focus switch and for extra control there is a rotary knob for the bass focus on the back of the amp.
As with all Victory products these are designed and hand built in England.
Pricing (Jan 2023) SRP/MAP:
Sheriff 25 Head - £1199/ €1399/ $1449
Sheriff 25 Combo - £1899/ €2229/ $2229
VS100 Super Sheriff 100 - £1999/ €2329/ $2369
VS100 Super Sheriff Wide Body - £2099/ €2449/ $2499
For more information, please visit victoryamps.com.
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Developed specifically for Tyler Bryant, the Black Magick Reverb TB is the high-power version of Supro's flagship 1x12 combo amplifier.
At the heart of this all-tube amp is a matched pair of military-grade Sovtek 5881 power tubes configured to deliver 35-Watts of pure Class A power. In addition to the upgraded power section, the Black Magick Reverb TB also features a “bright cap” modification on Channel 1, providing extra sparkle and added versatility when blended with the original Black Magick preamp on Channel 2.
The two complementary channels are summed in parallel and fed into a 2-band EQ followed by tube-driven spring reverb and tremolo effects plus a master volume to tame the output as needed. This unique, signature variant of the Black Magick Reverb is dressed in elegant Black Scandia tolex and comes loaded with a custom-built Supro BD12 speaker made by Celestion.
Price: $1,699.
Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine is one of the loudest guitarists around. And he puts his volume to work creating mythical tones that have captured so many of our imaginations, including our special shoegaze correspondent, guitarist and pedal-maestro Andy Pitcher, who is our guest today.
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We go to the ultimate source as Billy Corgan leaves us a message about how it felt to hear those sounds in the pre-internet days, when rather than pull up a YouTube clip, your imagination would have to guide you toward a tone.
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