Amplifiers
Boutique tube amplifiers hand made in Melbourne Australia
Evil Joe
In 2023 we custom built legendary producer Joe Barresi a high gain 50W EL34 powered head. This one-off amp was fine tuned by Jason, together with Joe, in Joe’s studio in Pasadena CA. Now in 2024 we are stoked to make this special collaboration amplifier available as a standard production model in the Headfirst lineup.
The Evil Joe is a take no prisoners high gain amp with a modern tonality. The two channels are versatile enough to be configured as clean and gain, or set it up for two channels of pure gain and distortion. Evil and Darkness!
The footswitchable F.T.G. front end boost brings in an extra gain stage, delivering 4 tones accessible via a 2 button footswitch. #FTG
Alta 100 rev2
Updated for 2024, the rev2 Alta 100 is the flagship. With its DNA rooted in our favourite 70’s Black and Gold amp from England, the Alta delivers a range of classic, modded and modern tones through the decades in a MIDI controlled experience, making it the ultimate live or session head. Ch1 delivers plexi style tones from the 60’s and early 70’s. Ch2 takes us from the late 70’s, through the 80’s ‘brown sounds’, through to modern tones and Ch3 delivers massive gain.
Rev2 introduces the first circuit updates since the initial release. The amp has revised Bright 1 & 2 voicings that are more pronounced, more aggressive and can be set to make the amp even tighter. Additionally, Ch1 now responds to the vintage/modern mode switch, previously this function only worked for channels 2&3.
