Description

Kustom Defender 5HMOD, 5 watt tube amplifier head. Mint condition. $299 (free shipping in the continental US). 

The Kustom brand has been around for more than 50 years. In the mid 1960s, a young, small-town entrepreneur named Bud Ross battled the odds to combine America’s love of music with its passion for high speed hot rods. Imagining the future wrapped in sparkling car upholstery, Ross experimented with covering speaker cabinets with the same colorful Naugahyde® material. Musicians responded with an enthusiastic “outta sight!” and an icon of the modern music industry was born.In the mid 1960s, a young, small-town entrepreneur named Bud Ross battled the odds to combine America’s love of music with its passion for high speed hot rods. Imagining the future wrapped in sparkling car upholstery, Ross experimented with covering speaker cabinets with the same colorful Naugahyde® material. Musicians responded with an enthusiastic “outta sight!” and an icon of the modern music industry was born. 

Kustom Engineers took the great sounding Defender 5H and created a variation made for vintage tube amp tone. Ceramic capacitors were upgraded with polyester film and electrolytic styles. Larger cap values allow more bottom end and more gain. The Defender5HMOD has lively, harmonically rich tone with distortion that delivers like older tweed and British style amps. Classic “chicken head” vintage style knobs on the Bass Response and Volume controls.

Number of Inputs: 1 Input
Electronics: Tube
Impedance: 4,8,16 ohms
Power Tube Type: EL84
Number of Channels: 1
Output Power (Watts): 5