KUSTOM DOUBLE BARREL GUITAR AMP, NEW.

[tom1946]

Hi, this doesn't get any use at all because I now play bass. In fact it's never been used at all. spec from JHS:

KUSTOM 'DOUBLE BARREL' GUITAR AMPLIFIER

Last year Kustom launched a neat little guitar combo called the 12 Gauge – emphasised with a novel 12 bore shotgun cartridge case end picture stuck over the speaker coil. The 12 Gauge was a blast, taking the concept of using a small-ish watts amp to drive a big speaker, for a huge – but easily controllable – sound that’s loads of fun to play. In the case of the 12 Gauge, the combo was based around a 16 watt amp driving a 12” speaker, and one of the 12 Gauge’s party tricks was that it could be hooked up to a bigger speaker cabinet like a 4 x 12” for a totally raging sound.

If the 12 Gauge was, and is, a ton of fun then joining two together will be double everything – including the fun factor! And that’s exactly what Kustom offer with the Double Barrel – a double barrel 12 Gauge – a solid state amp knocking out a healthy 30 watts into two 12” Kustom speakers. If you use your amp for more than just blasting away – sorry, practising hard – at home, then the Double Barrel is a much more practical and useable proposition with a fair old output on it, meaning you could use it at rehearsals, jam sessions and on smaller gigs (if your drummer isn’t too loud..).


The Double Barrel is a two-channel amplifier (Lead and Clean) which features a sturdy plywood baffle board. Nice simple control layout too, single jack input then Lead channel’s Gain and Volume rotaries, a small push Channel Select switch to the Clean channel’s single volume rotary. Bass, Middle and Treble EQ controls next, nice and straightforward, and the final rotary is Effect Level – one small switch moves this between Delay and Reverb, while another small switch on the other side of the knob selects the onboard Chorus option. Just along from this is the Double Barrel logo, then a chunky blue Power On jewel light, and the Power toggle switch.

Round the back, under the rear panel, sit a further four jack sockets; Speaker Out, Line Out, Headphones and CD/Tape Input.

The Double Barrel is a steal. Armed robbery, in fact!


These retail at £199, yours for £130. Prefer collection but delivery may be possible.