Victoria Amplifier Co. Victorette 210 Combo

15 savage watts of pure beautiful tone. Fabulous reverb and tremolo. Extremely lightweight. This amp and the Carr Rambler are the two best amps on the planet for small to medium club gigs. The breakup of the EL-84's is sublime. Using the Victoriette and the Rambler is the best tone on the planet at a REASONABLE volume. The Rambler's ultra clean bottom end coupled with the Victoria's ultralush creamy topend delivers the most beautiful tones a roots cat can find at a level that very rarely pisses a clubowner off for being too loud. Loves a good quality pedal.

I play Fender or Fender-style guitars. My current rigs are a 50's Mex Telecaster with replaced jumbo frets and a Duncan Antiquity 2 in the neck position and a six saddle bridge with Graphtech saddles, nut, and string trees. Also a G&L Legacy with a Callaham trem block and Graphtech saddles and nut. My latest fling is with a parts Strat made from an ultralight Warmoth body, an enormous Warmoth boatneck with stainless steel frets, Callaham hardware and a pickguard that I routed for a Tele bridge pickup and had Jason Lollar install pickups,pots, switches, capacitors etc. It rules. The distortion is NOT BRUTAL. It's PRETTY. Like Red Prysock on amphetamines.

Like any tube amp, you need to travel with extra tubes, but the way these amps are built, my experience tells me that if something is wrong with this amp, it will be a tube that is either defective or a tube that got jarred. I've been playing Fender type amps for 30 years and have never blown a fuse or had a problem other than occaisionally replacing a preamp tube. If the amp is biased properly and serviced annually, good point to point amps DON'T break.

Never dealt with them after buying this amp but did speak to Mark Baier about my love for the very inexpensive Fender Blues Junior a couple of years before he came out with the Victoriette. The Blues Junior is a fabulous sounding amp made with very inexpensive parts. The Soulcactus/Victoriette is like the best possible Blues Junior (Vox AC-15) made with quality pots, caps, resistors, speakers etc. This amp will last a lifetime with virtually no problems. Get it now. No depreciation!

Been playing since I was a lad. In the proper room it is the best amp I've ever heard. I also own a Carr Rambler (my go-to amp), and a Victoria 3-10 Bandmaster clone which all work well depending on the size and acoustics of the room. If it were lost or stolen it would be only because I had too many cocktails and let my guard down. Without a doubt the most beautiful amp I've ever played through. Expensive, but well worth the bread.

This amp was put together by Victoria in December of 2004 and is the first dual 6V6 Victoriette ever made. Its a 2x10 model that has all the same controls and 'features' as the other Victoriette and Victorlux amps. This one has a totally stock circuit. I also have a 3x10 - 6L6 Victorilux and was looking for a smaller version of it.

As far as features go, its got everything I want in an amp. One channel, two inputs, bass and treble controls, reverb and tremelo.

That's all the versatility I think an amp should need.

I use the amp with Fender Stratocasters that have vintage style single coils in them. Its the perfect amp for the style music I play which is blues. Not blues/rock, but blues. Chicago and west coast style.

The amp isn't noisy and basically does a perfect Fender Super Reverb style tone. With the reverb off, it has a tweed vibe about it but doesn't necessarily break up just like the lower wattage tweed amps. I'm into all of the south side and west side Chicago stuff as well as the whole west coast blues thing. And for all that, the amp is absolutely perfect.

My thing is that I love to run tremelo all the time and I like to use reverb a good bit, but don't want to hassle with hauling around an amp (tweed) and reverb tank and still not have tremelo. I don't use any pedals (except a tuner on stage) and don't want to hassle with a tremelo pedal.

I run it right at the point that's just about to breakup. It has a beautiful clean tone and the breakup is just right. It really sounds like a 2x10, 20 watt '65 Super Reverb. It really is a perfect amp for all sorts of roots oriented music.

I don't use distortion pedals so I don't know how it would take pedals. It would seem that it would respond extremely well to pedals, but can't say for sure.

In comparison to the 3x10, 6L6 Victorilux, its almost exactly the same. I detect a little more brightness in the 2x10, 6V6 version, but it isn't much. The only 'issue' I had with both my amps is that the stock Jensen reissue speakers didn't really do it for me. They seemed to bright and didn't contribute much to the midrange. I found the Reverend Alltone 1025's to be an excellent match for both my amps. I have seen some ship from Victoria with Eminence Legend 105's stock, which I'm sure would sound similar to the 1025's...basically beefier than the Jensen's.

I imagine a 3x10 version of this amp would be really remarkable.

It seems to built like a tank which is one of the reason's I bought it. Mark Baeir has done a superb job in building some of the world's best amps.

I generally take a backup amp to gigs because anything can go wrong with a piece of electronics any time.

Mark Baier and Pete at Victoria are great guys to work with. Mark answers the phone most of the time and is always friendly and great to talk to. He's open to all sorts of ideas and is a straight shooter. This 6V6 amp came about through a phone conversation with Mark, he said "I'd love to build a 6V6 version of the Victoriette".

The warranty is a lifetime warranty. Service issues seem to be handled by phone. I've had several Victoria's and never had a problem so I don't know what it would be like to deal with a problem.

I've been playing close to 20 years. I've had lot's of other amps and went to the Victoria's basically because Fender doesn't make a lower wattage version of the Vibro King; 60 watts is just too much power.

I looked at alot of different amp. Carr being a real contender. The Rambler sounds great but didn't think the breakup on it was right for me, although the pentode/triode switch is killer. I think that would be a nice feature for the Victoria's.

A midrange control would also be a nice feature. Victoria can put one one on, but they use one of the two inputs...and I use both inputs from time to time so that wasn't an attractive option for me. But I've got no complaints, this amp sounds GREAT as is.

2002, simple two input amp. Has treble, bass, volume, reverb and tremelo control knobs. I think it is 35 watts, has two Jensen Special Design Speakers. It is designed to do one thing VERY well, not do 10 things ok. It has two EL84 power tubes.

This is a blues amp, plain and simple. I was a little disappointed at first with this amp, and felt I made a mistake buying it. But after working with it, I began to realize that I was approaching the amp all wrong. I was use to running my guitar volumes on 10 and using the amp volume to generate the desired level of volume, I grew up with master volume controls. Anyway, this philosophy resulted in extreme volume and not the best tone in the world. So a blues guy I know said, turn the amp up full blast and turn your guitar down. The guitar I was using has a SD '59 HB in the neck and a JB in the bridge, both rather hot pups by vintage standards. I finally found the tone I was looking for by running the neck volume on TWO, and the bridge on EIGHT. This way I get a great clean tone on the neck pup, a good medium crunch ala SRV in the middle position and a great lead tone on the bridge pup. This amp does NOT like pedals in front of it, including but not limited to Fulltone 69 and 70 pedals, or analog delays. While it only has two 10" speakers, bass response is tremendous and anything over 4 on the bass was too much for my personal taste. While the speakers can handle the bass being on 12, I found that the amp was not as responsive and the tone got to be too much for me, especially on the neck HB pick-up. When I went into coil tap mode on the guitar, the tones became even more organtic and I think that perhaps this shows this amp prefers single coils, but since none of my guitars have single coil pups, I can not say for sure, just a theory I want to experiment with. You want this amp running at 100% capacity to achieve the GREAT distortion tones it is capable of. While it sounds scary that it will be too loud, it is not bad when you turn DOWN your guitar volume. You can also reduce your guitar's output by plugging into input 2, which is lower gain than input 1. I found however that I preferred input 1 with my guitar volumes described over any settings I used on input 2. Basically when I switched over to bridge for leads, the gain just wasn't there on input 2. With teh bridge volume on the guitar on 8 and using input 1 I got a great lead sound, with the guitar volume on 10 and input 2, there was less overall gain and to me, reduced my happiness with the tone. If you don't need/want a higher gain type solo sound, you might find input 2 satisfactory. I am a rock guy at heart and need my high gain crutch for leads, so take it for what it is worth.

Had one week, but looks well built and reputation is very solid.

Mark was super friendly and played the amp over the phone for me to hear. He suggested this amp over others I was considering from his line. In the end I am very pleased with this purchase.

I have been playing for 17+ years. I am embarrassed that I did not think of the turning down the guitar volume idea on my own. I have many amps, mostly high end channel switching types like the Bogner Ubershall, Bogner Ectascy, and a couple of new Blockheads. I bought this for a simple blues amp that had reverb for just jamming with, and for recording some original songs with. It won't replace my 24 space Bradshaw rack system, it is not that versatile. It does the blues thing VERY well and that was the point of buying it, so other than my own mental short comings; failing to realize it was ME not the amp that was the problem at first, it has been a great experience owning this amp. Now that I understand what it needs from me, we are able to make wonderful, tone inspired music together.