VICTORY VERTICAL 2X12 CABS
As many already know, Victory
Amplification is the one to beat for
modern British-built boutique tube
amps. One of their endorsees, Rabea
Massaad, helped mastermind amp
designer Martin Kidd develop my
favorite of their compact heads—The
Kraken. Basically, it is a dual channel
50-watt beast that has one channel
dedicated to hot-modded British
crunch and the other in the modern
American aggression tradition. Rabea’s
live setup involves two vertical 2x12s
with two Krakens set to the different
channels atop. The Kraken set to the
aggro-American channel is fitted with
6L6 power tubes and the other is
fitted with EL-34s to compliment the
British channel. This setup yields a
crushing one-two combination of tones
and responses in a single half-stack
footprint. Because the two channels are
voiced differently, it actually emphasizes
the stereo spread when the effects are
kicked in. Another often-overlooked
problem that his setup addresses is
because the two amps are identical,
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the effects loop levels are the same—
clever indeed.
For those about to rock the bigger
rooms, but don’t want to schlep two
half-stacks around, get amongst a
good pair of high powered lunchbox
heads and a couple vertical 2x12s.
One could even fit them with different
complimentary speakers to fill out the
frequency spectrum. The imagination is
the limit.
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