Little Chopper 7WSE

The Little Chopper is an amp whose diminutive stature belies its vast wealth of exquisite sounds.

Based around an ECC81 and ECC83 in the preamp and EL84 power amp, the tones range from ultimate 'American' cleans, through classic British chime and grunt, all the way out the other side to Crazy-Horse style scuzz.

Controls on the front panel are Gain, Bass, Middle, Top, Stack, Power.

Gain - This does what might be expected. It has the same function as the Volume or Gain control on early Non-Master volume amplifiers.

Bass, Middle, Top - The tone stack is very flexible and with interactivity between its controls, ensures multitudinous timbral variation.

Stack - This is a little trickier. In the counter-clockwise position the Bass, Middle and Top (BMT) controls behave as normal, but in the clockwise position the whole of the BMT is stripped out and just the Top control re-purposed as a high end roll-off.

When your typical BMT stack is set to what appears 'Flat', in actual frequency response terms the Mids are scooped and the Lows and Highs are hyped. Having the BMT stack in there also attenuates the signal to quite a large degree, so when it is replaced by the high end roll-off there is a gain boost and an apparent mid boost.

Power - This is a lot trickier. Full Clockwise the amp behaves like a standard non-master volume amp, but as the continuously variable control is wound anti-clockwise it decreases the headroom of the power amp, thus introducing harmonic distortion in the power amp and reducing the volume. This is an invaluable tool for tone creation and is part of the reason this amp has found its way into the hearts of many of the top guitarists and record producers on the planet.

Big Chopper

This is the bigger, louder and much heavier big brother to the Little Chopper.

30WSE takes a BIG lump of output transformer, and though you may not think it's worth the extra cost and weight, when you hear this amp any doubts will vapourise.











This is a view of the rear of Yann Tiersen's Big Chopper, showing the cabinet door for open/ closed back operation.

Base Chopper

For those of us who require a bigger bottom.

The first prototype was used for the whole of the last Babyshambles record.
Jon (Audio Kitchen solder jockey and low-end fancier) has the second out on tour with Beth Rowley at the moment. It continues to beat the industry standard competition in diverse musical situations.

Alex James bought the rig in the picture for Blur's gigs this summer.

Guitar Speaker Cabinets

We make two standard guitar speaker cabs:
1 x 12
2 x 12

Bass Speaker Cabinets

We make two standard bass speaker cabs:
1 x 10
4 x 10