January 2018 – Custom by Cougar

Welcome tone lovers !

Here are some info on the gear currently available to custom order.

My priority is to build tone machines that goes a bit further on than just cloning amps that so many are doing today, these following amps are the result of over 30 years of research for the ultimate clean guitar tone that responds extremely well to effect pedals, all built with careful attention to tone. All amps are hand built, hand engraved and tweaked individually by me so each amp has its own.

Check out Philip Sayces website ! https://www.philipsayce.com/ I have proudly built or modified basically all of his amps since 2005.

I will now slow down my work next year even more now as I am getting closer to retire by the end of -27 , but there are still a few build spot available for the second half of -27 left , and I also have a new couple of really cool amp designs I want to offer before I stop taking orders, these will be very limited 50w Blues/rock amps and more info on these very soon this fall , if you are interested in this send me a mail, And I am afraid as of now no more Mother 70w amps will be available to custom order, and after -27 I will most likely only do limited amp work for old friends and old customers, but most likely I will build a limited few really cool and unique one offs from many of my proto ideas and variations of previous amp ideas all out from old parts and many of my old stock of vintage parts and old transformers, but these will be not be available to preorder, these will eventually be advertised on my website here when that time comes , but so thats the plan for now, You can now still orders the “XR59 Custom” or the new “XR59 Special” now that has bit more rock blues drive , really cool amps if I say so myself .

Thank you ! Tommy

XR 59 Custom. tm This amp is based on one of my earlier ideas that I have now set up for Nik Sevigny, and I think it turned out pretty nice. This is a 50w 6L6 reverb amp head that has slightly more natural and full drive in the preamp and that it is made to also sound really great on lower volumes,

The controls are Vol1, Hi – S – B – ( Bright, Mid shape- Boost switch) Vol 2, Treble, middle, Bass, Shape, Reverb, Presence – Vol 1 and Vol 2 in the preamp section can either act as a preamp master vol to set the base tone depending on you want a cleaner brighter clean tone or if you want a warmer fuller tone with a bit more drive at lower volumes, and the Vol 2 has now increased low volume capability, it also has a new reverb boost setup and a shape control for overall warmth and smoothnes and now the presence control is back again instead of vol 3. Rear panel has standard power cable jack, fuse, bias test points for each power tube , 4-8-16 speaker jacks (or optional 2×4 ohm and a single 8 ohm speaker jack if you prefer) This amp is for now built in my standard chassie and cabinet same as the Mother amp and it comes with a hand engraved raw brushed panels, in standard it come with black tolex covering and comes with a custom front cloth version in various colors and patterns (no aluminium trim on the XR model) this is a very versatile amp. Price is 5000Euro

Here is a clip of Nik Sevigny playing his standard original XR59 amp head and also kicking in a Dominion Fuzz and Wha pedal later in the clip.

And a new videoclip Of Niks XR59 Custom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaqThLwb2ng&t=85s

Also check out Nik Sevignys youtube channel with lots of cool Guitar and amp goodies https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYCrei3LwCnPwdUOv42KdIA

Amp mods. I done a few different amp mods also, both on Fender and Marshall amps. One is the Enchilada mod that also were made in a few differently tweaked variations through the years , some of these mods was also done to Philip Sayces Fender amps. / **** I am sorry, no more Fender mods are made .****

Spider, splitbox tm to use in multi parallel amp setups for that wide fat SRV, Sayce style amp sound, from 1 to 4 amps at once, and when hooked up like so it creates a great wide big tone. 140Euro shipped world wide **You can use Paypal for this unit.

All amp order payments are done via banktransfer, no paypal for amps, thats only the smaller items .** All prices may change depending on currency swings so please double check with me !!

**** Order lines are a bit limited these days and it is a bit long wait but I do what I can to help building you an amp, just ask, and if you dont get a response within two days please try contact me again, also double check that you inserted your correct email address .

New and used gear for sale ready for delivery -click here.. *Updated / Aug 21-26

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Currently I am working with Philip Sayce on a total remake of his old Mother head with a new totally unique setup, and as some of Philip Sayce fans have noted I have made him a couple of new small size amps of two new circuit design ideas for his touring rig , so.have made him these super-compact custom reverb heads with lots of new trix inside and mated to special transformer setups, the first amp was the PS100 I made for him to fit inside his carry on case as a Travel amp, so its a rather small size head but with the output power of a loud and boosted 100w Twin, but so its not a Twin amp its really something much more ballsier 😺 but you get the picture, and Philip has also been using my old personal 50w head that some of you Philip Sayce fans might have seen (thats the upside down frankenstein amp without a head cabinet) he has used this amp on and off since 2010 and that amp now also has some new trix in it since Oct -24 .

and here below is the new custom S50 travel amp named “Mavis” that I custom made for Philip. this 50w amp is a bit different from the PS100, this has a different gain structure and a new reverb design, a has bit more juice to get some full bodied tones also on fairly low volumes if needed, even if Philip usually pushes it to the limits.

Below the S50 named “Mavis”