Kustom '36 Coupe 112 Combo

4 12ax7's and 2 6l6's. effects loop, reverb, interactive eq, and master volumes for each channel.

very versatile. the clean channel goes from fendery cleans to really aggressive drive (if you push the front end hard enough). the drive channel can go from a buzzy moderate gain character to really fluid drive. the EQ is really where the versatility is. you cna make the amp very dark and beefy or bright and articulate. i mainly play metal but when i'm in the mood for blues or rock, this amp can do it with a simple twist of the knobs.

36 watts is plenty loud for me, cuts through like a knife when i need it too through a band mix. for small venues and clubs youre set. if not you can always mic it OR use the built in direct out (which sounds phenomenal) and run it to the PA.

i gave it a 9 because you cant switch the eq to a traditional non interactive mode

i use high output active pickups and the clean channel can take them pretty well. i can make my bridge pickups sound crystalline or beef them up some by turning up the clean channel's gain to about 12 o clock. for practicing i like having both my masters at 12 and adjusting the gain with the level knobs. from clean to dirty blues, to rock and brutally heavy metal, the amp handles everything fine by itself. that doesnt mean it doesnt take stomp boxes well. i also use a big muff, metal muff, and a boss eq for various distortion or overdrive characters. the amp takes them all in stride.

the effects loop is wonderful, though for some reason its always active even when i have "effects" off on my footswitch. i've tried my wah pedal and my eq in the loop, and both work great. for a mid boost, i prefer the eq in front of the amp to drive the preamp. but say you want that mega scooped nu metal sound? throw it in the loop and set the eq for a scoop (not my taste though).

the amp's eq really shines when playing different styles. the treble knob controls not only how much treble, but how much bass and the frequency range of the mids. so at lower settings you have more bass, less treble, and low frequency mids. turn it up and you get the opposite. the bass knob controls the tightness of the bass. i use the treble knob to get the articulation i want at the moment, and the bass knob determines the overall "attitude" of everything. i'm usually at 3o'clock with the bass which sounds really beefy with mids down to 11"o clock. turn the mids up and POW more classic metal sound for playing van halen or iron maiden.

the boost function is fantastic. while frequency boosts are sweet, the coupe's power section boost is much more useful. your tone stays the same but its louder and stronger! i leave frequency based tone boosts to my stomp boxes.

the footswitch is very solid. a really strong metal casing and has a good weight to it. the clicking of the switches feels softer than i'd prefer and the fact that the effects button seems to only turn the reverb on and off is odd.

havent had a single problem yet, save for my pilot light blinking on and off for about a week. contacted customer support and they got right back to me. the problem went away by itself but its good to know that they responded and followed up afterward to see how things were.

customer support is great. they got back to me the next day and gave me an answer from one of the guys who designs the amps. they stayed in touch as well and i could tell that the support was done in-house and on a personal level.

i've been playing for maybe 4 or 5 years and have gone through maybe 4 amps before this one (one of those tube as well). i have never been so happy with my tone. at the first gig i played with it i got a lot of compliments--even from people who know squat about equipment or tone. chicks dig the looks too (i have the blue one).

if it were stolen or lost, i'd cry because i got an incredible deal on it. as a gear junkie i know i'd look at similarly priced options as well but the coupe would automatically be on the top of my list of amps to look into. if anything maybe i'd go for the half stack version instead.

i love the amp's cosmetics, the glow of the words on the chassis, the flexible controls, and all the features. the TONE is amazing and it comes at a ridiculous price. you are paying for quality stuff. i spend a lot of time testing gear to update my rig and i am 100% convinced you can do no better in this price range (and maybe in higher price ranges too!)

I have the Kustom Coupe '36 in Blue Sparkle. It is made in the USA with USA and foreign parts. I know the cabinet(birch) is made in the USA and I would guess the actual circuit boards are made in China or whereever. These are tube amps running two 6L6s and four 12ax7, which don't need biased when replacing, it has some hybrid system of biasing. These amps have features through the roof!!

On top it has pre and post knobs(volume and master on the amp) for both the rhythm and lead channels. Each channel has a pull bright on the volume knob and it modifies the sound a bit. They have tone controls of bass, middle, and treble that are for both channels. It also has reverb with intensity and tone. The tone for the reverb will make the reverb brighter. It has Hi and Lo inputs and and standby switch.

On the back of the amp it has a mic input that is speaker emulated so instead of mic'ing up your amp you can just plg straight into the back, that also has a volume knob with it to control the output volume. It has effects return/send jacks, and another cool feature on the back is the boost volume knob. The amp has on a footswitch a boost function, that will boost your volume(as much as 10 db) up for either channel, so you can for example play clean and boost to do a clean solo, or you can play dirty and boost for a dirty solo.

The cosmetic features are very cool aswell. The front of the amp has the cool tuck and roll look and silver piping all around the grill clothe. It has a blue jewel light on top aswell. However the best part is that on the top of the amp the channel you are on will have glowing letters. The rhythm will glow blue and the lead will red.

The footswitch is very nice as well, very sturdy, and it also has the glowing letters. It will glow red if you use the lead channel, the boost will glow yellow when you are in boost, and the effect, which is reverb, will glow green when in use.

As of right now there are no features I can think of that I wish it had, and I use every feature except for the effects loop, which I never use.

I use this amp gigging at bars (www.codeblueohio.com) and playing at home. Oh and this thing has two beefy tube guards.

I love the clean channel, I'm playing with a Fender MIJ strat with GFS pickups with this mostly. It reminds me of a Fender clean, however I only know that clean from playing in stores and certain albums. What I can directly compare this amp to is my Peavey Delta Blues. The Kustom hands down has a better clean sound. It has a much rounder, fuller, and brighter sound then the Peavey. On the Kustom the highs shimmer beautifully. I have also noticed that on the PVDB the higher up the neck you played the less volume you would seem to get, but the Kustom keeps the volume. The reverb is also much more powerful(I used to put the reverb on the DB to 12(there knobs go from 1-12), but on the Kustom I have it at about 1 o'clock.) You can taylor the clean channel to how distorted you want it(doesn't get too much) depending on how you use the volume and master controls.

With the pull bright switch and reverb tone and intensity controls you can get all sorts of sounds out of the amp, plus you can set the tone how you want on top of that.

The lead channel is also very nice sounding. I tend to keep the pull bright switch on for the lead channel where I keep the bright switch off on the clean. The lead channel is pretty smooth, but with some grit on top of it, I like it a lot. This amp has made it unnecessary for me to use my old pedals, I use to use a Behringer TO800 overdrive pedal(I still think its a very nice pedal, not that much battery life though) and a Behringer preamp booster, but now need neither. The distortion channel can get pretty distorted, but it also gets noisier with more distortion, don't notice it when playing ofcourse.

I see no need to buy another amp at all, it sounds great and has a ton of features!

Oh and the distortion channel would not be perfect for heavy metal, unless you put a stomp box in front of it, it would work for pretty heavily distorted rock though.

The amp and footswitch are VERY solid except there are two things I would change.

The actual toggle switch on the top of the amp between the Rhythm and Lead knobs is very small, and easily breakable. I bought mine with a broken switch and replaced it with another that Kustom sent me, this one too seems very fragile and I am very cautious when using it.

The other thing I would change is the handle. Mine came with a wooden piece screwed to the metal handle instead of the stock black most likely plastic piece. However, what is cheap is the metal, it is not difficult to flex and I think a regular amp handle would be better.

Other than those two things everything else is sturdy as can be, it has very nice jacks and knobs are sturdy as well. I acutally haven't had the chance to take it to that many shows, our band's members have had some bad luck, but it has held up fine from taking it to where I have.

This is where Kustom shines!!! I bought the amp used off ebay and the switch on top for channel switching came broken. I emailed Kustom and aksed if I could receive a switch. They emailed me back telling me that I would probably have to have them sell it to me through the local dealer and pick it up there. So I told them my local dealer and then I receive an email and it says to give them a call. So I called and they told me even though they weren't really suppose to, that they were just going to mail the part directly to me, for free! So I receieved the whole circuit board with the switch and lights on it to just replace the old one! Talk about customer service. I almost want to tell the person's name, but wouldn't want anybody in trouble. However, such great customer service makes me very confident in Kustom as a company. I would give an 11 for their customer service! Oh and when I called them I don't remember any machines or anything, just people, who directed me straight to the person I asked for.

I have been playing for about five years and have been gigging for about almost two, basically every weekend. I would definately try to get another one at a bargain if stolen, I don't think I could lose it, haha. I love the features of the amp, the two inputs, the boost function, the speaker emulated mic output, the bright switches, and the reverb controls! I use all of those features and feel that they are part of what makes this amp such a smokin' deal! Most importantly though, it has a great tone. Without all of the extra features it would still beat the Peavey DB easily for clean, and I think the slightly gritty tone of the Kustom is a bit more versatile than the more gritty dirty tone of the Peavey, which I still like too) When I add all the features that I acutally use to the Kustom, it is the ultimate amp for me! It seems like it is one of those things where they ask, what do you want in a gigging guitar amp? Well they definatley got it right!! Also I got it for a great price on ebay! I know it seems like a very glowing review, but I have had it for a while now (no more honeymoon phase) and it is just an unbelievable amp. James Brown (formerly of Peavey) designed this amp and you can watch him talk about how it is made and designed here: http://www.kustom.com/player.aspx?MediaID=1112

Very nice amp, especially at a used price, I don't think many know about these amps yet!

Hi and lo inputs, twin channels, clean and distortion (clean channel also has gain control to add grit), push/pull bright controls on each channel, stops a Les Paul from sounding too dark etc... variable boost on both channels, shared eq, reverb with tone and intensity (nice touch, Mr Brown) valve driven fx loop, ext. speaker out, impedance selector, footswitch with channel, boost and reverb/fx loop toggles.
The amp runs on 2 x 6l6GC and 4 x 12AX7/ECC83 valves which feature part fixed and part self biasing which gives more flexibility regarding valve choice.
Guitarists who find this amp lacking in features need to, in my opinion, either improve as a player or pursue some other interest.

This little amp says it like it is, it will not "flatter" your playing or your guitar, so make sure that both are up to scratch before proceeding!
What you get is great note clarity on both channels, irrespective of gain levels (and there's more than enough of that) this amp really sings with a good Strat or Les Paul (I only use the pull bright with the Gibson and then only on the dirty channel, as I like the faithful sound on clean.
My Strat has a 10k (single-coil) bridge pickup and I can coax drop-tuned metal mayhem with plenty of bottom from the non-brightened dirty channel. Same guitar quacks like Knopfler on clean, such is the versatility of this beauty.
The Les Paul goes from warm jazz through "whisky in the jar" to Slash in full swing.
One reviewer mentioned th idea of matching extension cabs, great idea!
To the Mesa enthusiast who hates the sound and reckons that every guitar sounds the same through the overdrive channel: clean your ears out mate, buy a decent guitar and learn to play it, otherwise take up gardening!

I've had the amp for nearly 2 years now and only one small problem so far, the power light flickers and goes dim at times. The solder on the bulb holder looked a bit grey, so I re-soldered the connection, to no avail. It stops doing it if I unscrew the bulb cover and give the bulb a push and twist, so it may be that working loose, or it could be dirty mains. Doesn't detract from any other function though and the amp is otherwise robust and dependable.

Not needed yet, hope I never need to call them, but if something goes wrong, I will.

I love this sweet sounding little amp, it delivers every time. It's tough but reasonably light (lighter than my Marshalls ever were) vesatile and loud as you like.
Dedicated extension cab would be nice.
If I lost this amp for any reason, I would replace it with the same model, the portability is good for a valve amp and the excellent emulated line out is there if more power is required.

I just bought this amp new at a small music store right across the border. Probably built in the past year...I'm not sure.First and foremost, I wanted a quality tube amp small enough for practice, yet powerful enough to cut through a band mix. I'm used to amps 40w and up, and I only vaguely assumed the '36 meant 36w. WOW! No wimp factor there. Two channels: clean and lead, with a switch pedal that gives you a nice straight-forward channel selection from clean/lead, boost, and effect button for the reverb. Another cool feature is that the pedal lights up, so you're never lost in a dark venue. This amp has a direct out, return and send jacks, plus a lineout for external cabs. So far so good. As far as versatility goes, this little beast covered balladeering cleans to reverb-soaked country picking to gritty blues rock to the crunchy ACDC tones remarkably well. And that's just from the amp itself. It's extremely stomp box friendly as well. The 4 Sovtek tubes do just fine for now, so no hurry on the swapping just yet.

I'm still in the experimentation mode, but for the little time I've had the amp, I'm very impressed with the clean channel. That's the first thing I look for, and I'll know in about 30 seconds if it passes the test or not. Everyone knows that Fenders are the kings of clean mojo, but imo, the amps in this particular price bracket get a little on the "brighty" side. The Kustom Coupe '36 delivers a 'just right' tone that sounds convincing with either a strat, or even a Les Paul. On the gain side of the coin, that's the part where I haven't fully grasped yet, because it sounds so different than amps that I'm used to...Fenders, Marshalls and Mesas. For me, it sounds best when both the VOLUME knob is rolled up at least to 12:00, and the GAIN opened up as well, for the tone to really breathe. You do have to tweak the two around a bit, but sonically it's very vesatile. From a mild drive to a bold hard rock crunch. I tested my Fender Strat first, and naturally the single-coils blended with the clean channel beautifully. With a bit of reverb, it was like buttah. My Les Paul and Ibanez RG550, eased through both channels with flying colors. The only one I haven't tested yet is my SG Classic, and I can't wait to see how the P90's work. A bit of playing with the EQ in the amp, it seems to work well with many types ogf guitars. How people can write this one off and give it a negative review is beyond me, because I'm one picky fool when it comes to tone. I can't seem to find many flaws with this bad boy.

I haven't had it long enough to know how reliable it is, but hopefully it won't give me any problems. I've never used a backup once, (I know, I'm nuts LOL) but I'd definitely gig with this amp.

Never dealt with this company.

I've been playing for over 20 years, and I own 5 guitars and two other amps. ( one acoustic) If stolen or lost, I'd grab another one of these in a heartbeat. I think it's one of the most versatile amps I've ever owned, but maybe a tad pricey for what its worth. But isn't everything now days? ;) The only things that bug me a little, are the knobs tend to pop off in the push/pull pots, and the AC cord doesn't seem to fit snugly in the jack. Otherwise, everything is working like a top.

Madewithin a year. This is an all tube amp 4 tubes, 2 on each "side".
I've seen negative reviews from players who should be seeking mask distortion type amps. You need to know how to play to use this amp.
Anyone who flames this amp can't play. This is the most responsive amp to what strings I hit, that I've ever heard.
I'm up to trying my 5th guitar on this, and the Agile 3000 is WAAAAAAY out in front, my Schecter Exotic star sounds nice, but has taken a huge defeat in sound. No way did I expect that either. In short, heavy gibsons will rejoice with this amp.

I'm sold. I like it. I play it. I can't believe I'm wasting time away from it. No.... I guess I had to tell people.
I like this amp.

So far so good.

Never dealt with.

20-30 years. This has been my best amp ever, and I guess that passes quite a few. I can only hope that we keep getting better/better amps.
This amp is not for the player who doesn't want to hear EVERYTHING they play, I guess.
I haven't needed foot effects yet, this amp can nail sounds without that stuff.

Not sure when it was made, but they've only been out for a few years.
I play Classic Rock, Oldies, Classic and Top 40 Country. Amp has 2 Channels, Reverb, 10db boost with Level Control, Master Volume on each Channel, Pull Bright on both channels, 1-12" speaker, speaker output, Line Output (XLR) with Level Control & Ground Lift, 3 Band shared E.Q., came with Footswitch/cable. 36 Watts, All Tube (6L6 & 12AX7). Great sounding little combo, weighs about 43 lbs..

Very nice Clean and distortion sounds. The KEI Turbo 12" speaker sounds the best with this amp; tried a Clestion G12 and didn't sound near as good. Very punchy sounding amp. Clean channel can be set for light distortion, since both channels have a Master Volume Control. Distortion channel can go from slight grit to heavy rock sounds. The clean channel stays clean all the way to max. Have used several Epiphone Les Pauls and Fender Teles thru this amp, they all sound great! Humbuckers will give you more grit & breakup, single coils are bright and punchy. Covers all the styles that I play with no problems.

Had the amp for about 2 months, no problems of any kind. I have taken a back-up amp since starting to use the amp, just until I get to know how it will perform. Never had to use a back-up yet. Will rate this section after more use.

Bought the amp used. Never tried to contact the company. Guess I'll have to see if there are any issues with the amp.

Been a gigging musician for almost 40 years. Been thru a LOT of gear. So far, very pleased with this amp. Has all the tones I need, and is very versatile. I especially like the Adjustable Boost Function. Can dial in any amount of boost up to 10db. This is not available on most other amps with a boost function. This has replaced my Traynor YCV-40 Combo, which went down on me just before a gig. Also own Fender & Peavey combos. I like the small size of the amp, if I needed a bigger amp; I would by the '72 Coupe in a heartbeat! Might buy one anyway, just to have one! Would like to see Kustom come out with matching Extension Cabs for this line of amps, would make a very cool "mini-stack". Would definitely buy again.

36 watts, channel switching, XLR speaker emulated line out with gain and ground lift, 3 band E.Q., 10 db boost.

Great sound right out of the box. I play everything from blues and rock to country and standards, and this amp nails everything. I play a Rickenbacker clone and a Strat electric, and an Ibanez acoustic through it and everything cuts through great. Only downside was E.Q.ing the amp for the Ric and acoustic, the Strat sounded REALLY thin. A Boss E.Q. pedal added to my pedalboard solved that little dilemma.

Only had the amp for a few weeks, but seems solid as heck and I have no qualms about using without a backup.

No dealing with customer support.

Been playing since I was 14 (32 years now) and have had other amps, both tube and solid state. This amp stacks up against all of them, including my old Music Man 210-65 (which I gave to my son years ago). I had an old Kustom amp back in the day that had I known about effects pedals back then, I would probably still have that amp.

I think kustom came out with this amp 2 years ago. I live in an area were there are 3 music stores easy to get to from my home. I seen this amp for the first time at a little music store called Rossos.

The guys let me play the amp knowing that; I am a well respected guitar player. They really want my opinion. I told them " boy it has a lot of promise to be something great". They thought I was saying it wasn't good but that was not the case.

In my head I was saying 'Boy that sound is just waiting to come out of there, with the right tubes and right speaker, this amp can ride with the big boys,' meaning Fender , Marshall, Messia and Vox, just to name a few.

But I didn't at that time had the Money for it. Then the following year passed and at Christmas season my wife get her bonuness money, so she asked me what would I like for christmas. I said a custom coupe. She thought I was talking about a 50's hot rod car. I laugh and said no honey, it's a guitar amp made by a company called Kustom.

Now I remember Kustom as a kid. I really dug the way they looked, they sounded pretty good even though they were not a tube amp. But for solid state, they had the best tone conpared to other solid state amps at the the time. And C.C.R. proved it!

Any way back to my litle story, so my wife gave me the money and I went bought one. When I got home I set it up and played it. The sound was kinda quacky but on the better side of quackness, which told me --- must change the speaker. But to be fair, most speakers have to be some what broken in with time to sound their best. But I had a Tone Tuby acinco speaker that was well broken in. If I sold an amp I had, I would put back the orignal speaker and keep the T.T.

When I put this speaker in it, BAM! what a tone. I push it all the way, and then the standard tubes that came with this amp started ratting out with sonic tingles through the speaker. I went through my collection of tubes and put G.T. 6l6r's with a 5 rating. G.T. silver rated 12a,x,7's. And boy this this do wonders for the amp. It sounds great. It reminded me of how amps with tubes sounded like when I was a kid, that was one of the reasons I liked playing electric guitar in the first place.

Well I an 53 now and. had alot of great amps. But at 53, and still giging and playing hard and good, I needed an amp that was not gonna tear my amp off, or send me to the hospital with a her-knee-er,(sorry for my poor spelling, but guys ,you know what Im talking about)just for picking the dam thing up to put in my truck! Well I am happy with this amp. It sounds great, but you must experiment with speakers and tubes to get out of it what your looking for.

I think kustom gave this amp this speaker and Russian tubes to help keep the price down. Great tubes and high dollar speaker would have driven the price to high, and this might have kept it from selling well. It's an amp that Mr Brown ( He's responable for Peavey Classic 30's and 50's,good sounding amps for the money) desiged this amp for players like me, who are old but we still like to rock, and experiment with tone and sound.

Any old player out their that has at least 2 decades of playing time, ( playing in the bed once a week for 15 minites room doesn't count) I mean real road time with develope ears for tone will love the amp for it's blessed weight, and all it's well thought out bells and whistles.

Mr Brown I do believe you truly created the amp you aways wanted to build. It's definely better late than never. MAD MAX of the BADABING BLUES BAND.

This amp with how I have it set up with pedals, can take me through Jimie Hendrix, Robin Trower, S.R.V. Z.Z. TOP, Tom Petty, Chris Dante,
Cream, C.C.R,Robert Cray,Bad Company,Johnny Winters,Little Charley and The Night cats, Ronnie Earl,Smokin Joe Kubeck,Elves Presley,Led Zepplin,and I am not kidding. And I play all this stuff pretty good. I have C.D.s with this amp doing all the guitar work.

Well so far it has not given me major problems, but as each problem came, they were easy to solve, like a good old car from the 50 and 60's.

Well I haven't had to call Kustom as of yet, which means, they have built a pretty good product. But some problems that rose up for me were easy to figure out,so some others that has similar problems might need to call the company.

I been playing for 4 decades now. I own a lot of amps at one time, but getting old you just need a couple. I have a TSL 100 JMC 2000 TRIPLE LEAD HEAD 2 x 12 Avatar cab with relic 30 Celestions speakers, its a great cab, and the coupe 32 sounds even mighter plugged in to it, running on all 3 21's. I would but it again so far at this point, but I had it only for 4 months now and have done 22 gigs with it plus recorded with it. So far I said no major problems,( wish I could the same for the Marshall)

Others had described it here. 2 Channel - single tone control. 3 x Foodcontroller for channel / Boost / effect. Very useful in theory. I gave it a 6, because a thing like mesa boogie dc-5 can get a 10 (2 channels, two sets of tone control in front of the pre-amo plus an equalizer after the pre amp section) This little thing is useful but nothing more.

I hate the sound. Sounds like rat at lower volumes. The sound ist allways thin. So, remember, every tube amp has one special volume level when the power amp tubes are at its best - i call it the optimal volume level. A good amp sounds good at almost every volume level. The Boogie DC-5 is such an amp. The Fender Tone Master has an amazing out of the box clean sound at almost every level.

This little amp sounds really really poor - in my opinion.

The clean channel can not deliver the thick and rich clean sound that I knew from my other amps I used over the years (like Fender Tone Master, MB DC-2, MB DC-5, Fender Hot rod deville). My Fender blues junior had a better clean tone - even my Marshall 4203 sounds better.

The distortion is not that better. It really has that zz top factor, you can hear every note of a distorted accord. But every Boogie can do that, every soldano can do it better. The tone section is in front of the distortion so every controller interacts with the distortet and with each other tone controller. Especially the treble control has a big influence to the sound. May be one has enough time, to look for a great sound, may be there is one. I did not have that time.

Compared to its price it is a very expensive amp. My Mesa Boogie Dc-2 was cheaper and has an amzing out of the box tone at every volume level.

I am sorry I can not give more than a 5.

I forgot: Every guitar sounds the same thru the distortion section of the amp. You can not devide a 52Tele from a hot Les Paul Classic with ceramic PUs. Even my PRS swamp amp sepcial sounds bad with this rat amp.

I don't have it long enough.

I don't have it long enough.

Trying this amp is a complete waste of time.

I am playing for over 25 years. I play not that good. But my ears are allright and I know what a good amp is. I have almost 20 guitars.

2006 Version I believe of the US manufactured 36 watt class A/B combo. Features have been described by others. Dual channel master volumes, with shared eq and nice reverb, boost, bright, tube driven effects loop, and DI outputs. The amp is well constructed of multiply Birch and solid controls, hardware, and lighted footswitch.
This is a very affordable small combo amp with plenty of potential. Has very nice quality feel to it.

This little amp caught my attention quickly with the retro looks and clean reverb tone. The clean channel stock sounds very good at mid volume levels. Master volumes on both channels help keep tone good at lower volumes. EQ is interactive and shared and I had no problems finding nice settings with different guitars. Volume knobs have pull for bright channels and both channels have this option. Great Fenderish Deluxe tones on clean channel. Drive channel to me sounds like a cross between cranked tweed deluxe and Marshall plexi tone. I can hear the Billy Gibbons inspired gain structure for sure. The amp is super quite for tubes and reverb is excellent. I still felt there were some improvements that could be easily made to find my own person sound. More information on changes/mods below---

I have not had this amp for long and they are relatively new, out for a couple of years. Looks like a very well made amp and expect no issues.

Excellent. I had a couple of questions on possible speaker changes and was able to reach technical advise quickly. Very good support.

Been playing for 20+ years and have owned numerous vintage and modern amps. This is worth looking at in the $600.00 range new. Some will find the look a little weird, but I grew up the 70's and remember the original Kustoms. Bottom line is this amp sounds very good and it is designed and built in the US. I did some tweeking and will pass on my testing and opinions. 1. Changed the power tubes/ 6L6's to Svetlana's Winged C version. Better glassy tone and harmonic richness. 2. Changed the inverter tube, one right next to the power tubes, to 12AT7 JAN GE. 12AT7's smooth out the gain and reduce splatty nature. 3. Tested Fender Eminence 75 watt speaker, sound on cleans very fender deluxe tone, excellent if you want a fender clone amp and play clean. Lots of headroom and nails Fender tone. Driven sound was too harsh for my taste though and I was looking for better balance between clean and driven tone. 4. Settled on Weber 1265 ceramic. This is Ted's version of the old Celestion G12-65. This speaker is warmer overall, but with slight roll off of bass and mids it came alive. Very well balanced open tone in clean channel. Driven sound was much improved without the harsh high end that was present in the original and Fender speaker. SO I am happy with this tone for me and this may help some of you in your search as well.