Victoria Amplifier Co. 80212

Standard high power twin layout with two channels, volume for each and shared bass mid treble and presence. Amp used for low to medium volume jazz standrds gigs in restaurants and bars and occassional louder blue/rock gigs. This amp is the best sounding jazz amp I've played and has enough power for any gig.It also properly amplifies the low A on my 7 string

Beautiful rich clean sound with a variety of humbucking and single coil equipped guitars.This amp will distort beautifly but I can't imagine playing that loud. No noise. Amp is perfect for jazz or any othe rstyle requiring a clean sound.

My Victorias are played several hours a day and gig six nights a week. I have had no problems.Usually I don't take a back up.

Mark and Pete are available and very patient.I had a problem with my other Victoria and it was fixed and sent back in two days. Customer support is so good and the amps are so well made they will outlast me. Warranty is for life[ I think]

I've been playing off and on for 35 years and full time[300 dates a year ] the past 5.My working amps are a Victoria 80212 Victoria Pro[3515],Acoustic image Coda R and a Fender Pro Jr. I would replace both Victorias if lost or stolen. I plan to replace the Fender with a Victoria Deluxe. There are many fine amps and in 35 years I've played or owned too many. To my ear they are the best sounding amps I've played.

Purchased 'new', but it had been sitting in the store for quite some time. Two channels with two inputs per channel; very basic: bass, mid, treble, presence, high volume, normal volume; switches for power and standby. That's all. I do rather miss my reverb and an effects loop, though, hence my ranking of '8' here.

Guitars: McInturff Forum#19 with p900's, McInturff custom Empress with dual humbuckers, G&L Comanche with noiselesss z-coils. I play bluesy stuff primarily, but can't really touch SRV, so tend more towards the 'smokey' blues; I also have my occasional 'chunky distortion' episodes. This amp is made to play cleanly, though, which is what I wanted: it can crank ferociously loud and is still clean as a whistle. It makes no noise, the knobs exhibit wonderful control over the tone and volume. With my Fulltone FDII overdrive pedal, I get excellent overdrive too. I even plugged a Digitech RP7 straight in and was able to get great chunky distortion to boot, although I wouldn't try to gig that way, since gig volume is quite loud and I would envision the RP's solid state distortion being overdriven which sounds terrible, (hence my above wish for a loop). But anyway - for living room volumes, even bedroom volumes, it's got all the magic of a clean amp: it's as clean or cleaner than anything else out there, and you can always plug in effects to dirty it up.

n/a -- haven't owned it long enough... although it sat right out on the fllor of a guitar shop forever and has sufferred my ruthlessness both there and now for about 10 days at home. This is a simple amp, too: I foresee no problems as long as I keep good tubes in it.

n/a - haven't dealt with 'em.

My price above was actually achieve on trading various other equipment; the amp was discounted a bit due to having sat out on the floor for a long time... when they did that, I couldn't resist, since I had played it myself in the gutiar shop a few times and new I liked it.

I've been playing for about 13 years. Love: the clean tone; Would like: reverb and/or effects loop; Hate: nothing at all. I did A/B it with a Victoria 35-210 and it's polar opposite, the M/B Mark IV the day I traded for it. The other Vic was good but had no 'mid' knob which I could hear immediately; the Mark IV sounded like a kid's toy compared to the Vic.

If it were lost or stolen, I'd be rather put out, since these don't come cheap... then again, any amp that's as good as this will cost even more (e.g. Matchless, etc...) so odds are good I'd get this same one again.

About myself - I've played oodles of guitars, but am still a neophite in the amp world; this is my first truly 'boutique' amp, after having gone through Peavey Bandit, Yamaha T50C 112, Fender Stage 160 212, Marshall JCM-900 212, and a Rivera R55-112. I also had a Trace Elliot Speed Twin half stack at one point. The Trace was nice but too big; the Rivera was quite nice, but too small. The Victoria is damned near perfect... although... on down the road, I might spend even more dough and look for something with a loop and reverb on it... I don't ever want to give up the clean tone this baby has, though. I'm going to give it a '10' here, despite the '8' I gave it on features; since in order to have those features, I know I'd have to get an amp costing a good $1000 MORE than this one.