Victory Amplifiers V40 Head The Duchess The Duchess

Vintage-style American cleans to vintage British break-up. Great with your pedals too. All the elusive, vintage pushed clean and drive sounds you love for anything from blues to roots and rock'n'roll.

This single-channel, all-valve amp is all about maximum tone with minimum confusion, housed in the same light and portable chassis as award-winning V30 The Countess. Voice 1 offers mid-’60-type American warm clean tones. Voice II is subtly stronger and more ’50s in character. As you push the gain and engage the Mid-Kick function, the V40 takes on a more ’60s British voice for timeless blues-rock tones. All the time the V40 responds to your guitar, responds to you: it’s one for the ‘feel’ players.

V40 gives you the option of running either EL34 or 6L6 power valves. They offer subtly different tonal characteristics in terms of power stage overdrive and also overall frequency response. Notice: subtle! There’s a bias range switch to get you in the right ballpark, but precise bias adjustment is also advised whenever you change power valves.