Victory Unleashes The Kraken – Again! – As The Vx Mkii Adds Presence And A Footswitchable Clean Mode To Rabea Massaad’s Favourite High-gain Head

Victory Amps has unveiled the Kraken VX MKII, the second-generation of its high-gain tube amp head that used to be evolved in collaboration with Rabea Massaad.

All over again the Kraken gifts us with a major quantity of achieve – sufficient for contemporary steel guitar with some to spare – break up throughout a two-channel platform with very decent output of 50-watts at complete chronic, and 9-watts for the ones events when you need to get the tubes all het up at decrease volumes. In any case, 50 of those watts will simply tear heads off in a small gig surroundings.

Those guitar amps are introduced in compact head and lunchbox codecs, and are the results of 4 years of R&D and fine-tuning. They had been already masses flexible so far as high-gain amps move, however the addition of a presence regulate and turn plus a new Blank mode for the Achieve 1 channel makes them doubtlessly much more helpful in numerous settings. Moreover, this Blank mode is footswitchable, successfully turning this right into a de facto three-channel amp.

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Each amps have similar regulate panels, with a toggle transfer for the channels, plus impartial Achieve I and Achieve II achieve controls, and two impartial Grasp I and Grasp II quantity controls which are footswitchable and be assigned to perform globally throughout each channels or to regulate the grasp quantity of every channel independently. 

Bass, Heart and Treble dials serve each channels, as does the all-new presence dials. All of those front-panel controls have Victory’s unique chicken-head design. And should you don’t need the Presence and want to revert to the former Kraken’s voicing, merely set the Presence dial to 0.

A jewel chronic lamp is situated beside the ability transfer and allows you to know when the amp is on, with a three-way toggle transfer deciding on between excessive and low-power modes. 

Across the again of the amplifier you’ve were given a trio of speaker outputs, the Presence Shift button, which provides just a little additional brightness, a Bass Focal point transfer for tightening up that low finish, a trio of exterior bias check issues, and it’s right here you are going to in finding the collection results loop for simple pedalboard integration, plus the Grasp Quantity Assign Transfer and inputs for the footswitches.

Below the hood you are going to discover a quartet of 12AX7 tubes within the preamp, and a couple of 6L6 chronic tubes. 

The lunchbox model is priced £1,419/$1,549, the wood cupboard model is priced £1,579/$1,699. however each are compact via any person’s stretch of the creativeness. Each send in a gig bag. Fore extra main points, head over to Victory Amps.