Functionally, the Lone Star incorporates an impressive list of unique and extremely powerful features that allow you to tailor the character and feel of the amplifier to perfectly meet your musical needs. The Lone Star's front and rear control panels are extremely player friendly and are in themselves an expressive art form through the beauty, logic and simplicity of their design. Two-channel simplicity delivers the goods...with surpassing versatility. In Channel 2, a CLEAN / DRIVE switch kicks in another triode tube stage for the high gain lead mode or, lets you bypass it entirely for a slightly higher gain clone of Channel 1. Channel 2 Voicing Switch offers three gain/voicings allowing you to tune the response from NORMAL, revealing the natural sound of your guitar, to THICK and THICKER for more vocal quality high gain solo work in the DRIVE MODE. CHANNEL 1 epitomizes the best of Black Face: a punchy, shimmering twang that gives way to furry smoothness.

It's based on a traditional vintage/boutique gain structure to produce angelic and warm clean sounds in its low to medium gain ranges. CHANNEL 2 has a split personality. At the flick of a switch, it can clone the clean magic of Channel 1 (with an added touch of blues-roots gain) or kick in an additional high-gain amplifier with its own dedicated control. Switching in the DRIVE CONTROL adds 2 more triode stages and an additional gain control to meter in the exact blend of smooth singing saturation. The bipolar nature of Channel 2 allows the Lone Star to roam effortlessly through both vintage and modern territory with full channel switching accuracy and an emphasis on soul and simplicity. This Lone Star is driven by a quartet of our legendary 6L6 power tubes and features Multi-Watt with Duo-Class Channel Assignable Power. This allows you to assign and configure the 6L6's to produce either 10 watts of Pure Class A Single-Ended clippability, or 50 or 100 watts of Class AB Push-Pull power PER channel. Then choose the optimum Rectifier. Tube Rectifier Tracking offers you a choice of the elasticity of vacuum tubes or the tight-tracking authority of silicon diodes.

The Power Switch is fitted with "Tweed" or normal "On" power settings. The Tweed setting provides a built in Variac effect by reducing the incoming AC voltage, which produces a spongier feel and increased clipability. This ability to run everything in somewhat of a brown-out state produces amazing possibilities for the clean sounds that are driven to clip. A truly seductive REVERB (our best ever!) includes separate depth controls for each channel plus a unique voicing feature that switches between glowing amber warmth and a brilliant springy halo. The pure, All Tube, Long Spring Reverb is fitted with a BRIGHT/WARM Switch that enables you to tailor the reverb sound to the style you are playing. BRIGHT delivers a vintage-inspired sound complete with the identifiable haze of harmonics associated with older amp circuits, while WARM produces a more pure, studio quality character. Individual blend controls for each channel allow you to get the mix just right for each of the sounds you have designated to the two channels. The Diode/Tube Rectifier Tracking Switch is an amazing new feature that takes our patented Dual Rectifier concept to a new level.

When Tube Rectifier Tracking is selected the Lone Star will auto-assign the most stylistic rectifier circuit to track the assignable 10/50/100-watt power settings of both preamp channels. In this mode, when either preamp channel is in the 10 or 50-watt position, the 5U4GB Rectifier Tube is automatically brought online, which produces an authentic vintage feel that is extremely silky and inspiring to play. In the 100-watt position, the Silicon Diode Rectifier is automatically brought online, which provides the Lone Star with "top fuel" performance that produces more punch, a tighter, livelier attack and substantially more headroom. If you prefer the articulate power and authoritative punch provided by the Silicon Diode Rectifier in both the 50 and 100-watt power modes at all times, you can simply set the Rectifier Switch to the Diode position. A fully buffered, all tube, series Effects Loop with a dedicated Send Level Control handles outboard processing with transparent finesse. The ability to "Hard Bypass" the loop entirely assures the purist in you will be satisfied in the studio, where every nuance of tone is crucial and you don't need the Solo Level Control feature.