Supro has introduced an all-new high-end guitar amp collection with the launch of two very good combo amps, the Delegate Customized and the Ambassador Customized. Each hand-built within the USA from “ultra-premium” elements and replete with classic mojo, they intention to “serve to redefine the top of Supro tube amp tone”.
One take a look at this pair and there’s no mistaking the model behind them. You’ve bought the Valco-inspired wraparound cupboards, long-established from poplar and completed in black or burgundy customized Scandia Tolex, flecked with gold.
Then you definately’ve bought these hemp grille garments… And the Supro badge in black. Woof! These nail that classic Supro tube amp aesthetic.
And by all rights, they need to nail the tones, too. Supro has dug out the good things for this run; below the hoods of each of those, you’ll discover top-shelf Mercury Magnetics transformers, vintage-correct Mallory capacitors, and precision-matched EHX tubes. Each have tube-driven spring reverb.
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The Delegate Customized is the smaller of the 2. A 1×12 tube combo, working 25-watts of Class An influence, it has a single Celestion Buck speaker within the again, and a gloriously easy entrance panel, with gold-embossed dials on a gold steel panel, and controls for Quantity, Treble, Center, Bass, Verb and Grasp Quantity.
Its preamp part is occupied by a trio of 12AX7s and a single 12AT7. There are a pair of 6V6 tubes within the energy amp. All this serves to present the Delegate Customized a “wide-open, fast sound”.
Supro’s tasting notes ought to whet the urge for food: “Gushing overdrive and a fire of heat mids permit the Delegate to sing at any quantity. Each ingredient throughout the amplifier has been chosen to offer a broadband sound wealthy in even harmonic colour and deeply aware of your instrument.”
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If Supro is pretty much as good as its phrase, there will likely be a Michelin Star incoming for these gourmand tones. The Ambassador Customized is equally rarefied. It has 50 watts of Class AB energy that’s switchable right down to a single-ended 35-watt output.
That lower-wattage output offers you the traditional Supro Class A tone, just a little like its sibling, the Delegate Customized, whereas the full-throated Class AB mode has a extra scooped ‘California grid-biased’ vibe, with a rock-solid low-end and “sooner transient response”.
“Good for gamers on the lookout for loud, colourful cleans and a hefty backside finish, the Supro Ambassador Customized presents iconic tone each onstage and in-studio,” says Supro. Good.
Right here, the entrance panel shares an analogous aesthetic and complement of controls to the Delegate, the one distinction being a toggle swap for Class A/Class AB operation. It’s kitted out with a pair of Supro BD10 drivers, manufactured below license by Celestion. Each amps take a footswitch for turning the reverb on and off.
The Supro Delegate Customized is priced $3,299. The Ambassador Customized is priced $3,499. And you’ll decide each of them up now. See Supro for extra particulars.
