Delta

Unleash your imagination with the Delta, a D-style amp that will give you everything from smooth and silky cleans to a wild, crushed glass overdrive. Pair it with a speaker cab that can handle its 100W of raw power and put the amazing three-dimensional sonic register of the amp and the guitar, front and centre of the mix.

A truly dynamic amp with a three-band EQ, two levels of boost and a cascading overdrive, providing a very wide and dynamic spectrum of tonal possibilities, suitable for all kinds of musical styles, from smooth jazz to hard rock.

Complementing the Delta’s classic analogue design with an onboard tube driven FX loop makes this an ideal pedal platform for the modern player using modern effects. Or go old school and use only the three-button footswitch and explore the possibilities with an amp designed for maximum versatility. Each stage is carefully designed to provide the player with the optimum signal and tone shaping control.

From € 3 850

SPECIFICATIONS

This list outlines the typical specifications for this model and may be adapted to suit your particular needs. To find out more and discuss the possibilities I can realise for you, please contact me directly.

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 POWER

 Mains power:230V / 50Hz
 Output power:50 Watts / 100 Watts (switchable)
 Tubes:x2 – 7025 (Clean and Overdrive preamp)
  x1 – ECC83 (FX loop)
  x1 – ECC83 (Phase inverter)
  x4 – EL34 (Power tubes)
 Channels:Clean
  Overdrive
 Preamp Boost
 FET boost
 FX Loop (active):Series / Parallel
 FX Loop (passive):Series

 FRONT PANEL

 FET LEVEL control
 VOLUME control
 EQ controls:TREBLE
  MID
  BASS
 EQ Switches:BRIGHT (three positions: High / Medium / Low)
  MID
  ROCK / JAZZ
 Overdrive controls:LEVEL
  RATIO
 MASTER volume control
 PRESENCE control
 STANDBY switch

 REAR PANEL

 Power switch
 230V, IEC mains female socket
 50 Watt / 100 Watt selector switch
 MAIN and AUX speaker female jacks (6.3mm)
 Impedance selector (4 Ohm / 8 Ohm / 16 Ohm)
 Footswitch manual override FET, PAB and OD switches
 5 pin DIN female jack for footswitch

 EFFECTS LOOP

 Passive loop:PRE-OUT (send) and PWR-IN (return) female jacks (6.3mm)
 Active loop:SEND and RETURN female jacks (6.3mm)
 Controls:DRIVE
  MIX
  GAIN
 Switches:ENGAGE / BYPASS
  PARALLEL / SERIES
  INST. / LINE
  BRIGHT

 HEAD INTERIOR

 External bias jacks:OT phase, OT anti-phase, COM (4mm) - chassis bottom

 ACCESSORIES

 3 button LED illuminated footswitch for FET, PAB and OD operation supplied with 5m cable
 3m, IEC C13 power cable

 MEASUREMENTS

 Height:270 mm
 Width:530 mm
 Depth:257 mm
 Weight:16.7 kilos

Tube Buffered Effects Loop

A fully featured FX loop, really two-in-one, partly inspired by the “Dumbleator” rack unit designed by Alexander Dumble. Modifications to the basic cathode follower design feature: a parallel, passive loop; a lower output impedance drive stage; selectable line and instrument levels; a linear Mix control for parallel side-chaining; a Bright switch for recovering high-end losses when using longer, higher capacitance cables to your effects pedals. The added Bypass/Engage switch allows you to bypass the loop circuits entirely.

Active Loop: SEND / RETURN

Type: series / parallel

The lower impedance modifications to the drive-side of the circuit ensures that time-based effects pedals receive a signal with a very low sound floor. The cathode follower is non-inverting, so all things being equal, the tone remains rich and full. Tube buffered effects loops are not typically “zero loss” but the fully integrated design of this loop means that if the Drive and Gain controls were set to unity gain, you wouldn’t know it was engaged if you hadn’t set the Bypass / Engage switch yourself. The Gain control can also be used to trim the signal level, (even without any jacks being plugged in) boosting or attenuating it. A handy little exploit if you want to drive the front end of the amp without waking the dead.

The Mix control can also be used to trim the level when the loop is in series mode but comes into its own when the loop is used in parallel for side-chaining effects with a remarkably linear interplay between the wet and dry signals. Great for instance if you want to dial in a little reverb for the room you are playing at the beginning of a gig. Larry Carlton would approve.

Passive Loop: PRE-OUT / PWR-IN

Type: series

This send and return signal is unbuffered and the PRE-OUT (send) jack is fed by the signal from the preamp and Master pot and the PWR-IN (return) jack is the return path for the signal directly onward to the phase inverter and the power section. This series, line level loop offers optimum signal and directly bypasses the cathode follower: straight out from the preamp, straight back into the power amp. The Master volume on the front of the amp controls the signal sent to PRE-OUT jack but further trimming can be achieved by hooking up a volume/expression pedal here. Inserting jacks in the passive SEND and RETURN ports disengages the active loop circuit.