Leonidas Amplification - Cabinets

Our cabinets are artisanal hand made in Portugal, using the finest solid wood available, and handcrafting techniques that portuguese wood craftsman are known for.

Leonidas Amplification!

Amplificadores de guitarra 100% artesanais, feitos á mão com os melhores componentes vintage para o timbre mais orgânico e puro possível. Circuitos inspirados em clássicos que fizeram história nos anos 50 e 60, mas que continuam a ser desejados.

Artisanal Top Quality Guitar Amps, Hand-build with the best available vintage components to provide the Greatest Purity & Organic  Tone possible. Inspired in classic historical circuits from the 50's and 60's, that are still in  great demand.

100% Made in Portugal!
By Pedro Leónidas &
Vintage Music Parts

Spartan 30 (w/ samples)

Spartan 30 is a custom designed amp model, based on vintage british circuits.
This is a vintage style amp, and from coupling caps to transformers, uses the exact same methods
The amp is hand wiered with top components, and features vintage style UK hand-made transformers, vintage oil caps, carbon resistors, and NOS tubes, wich all make the tone vintage style smooth, organic and natural.
The chassis was custom designed and made of 1mm (non magnetic) staineless steel. Both the head and matching cab are custom built from top quality solid wood.
The amp has two distinct channel modes, wich are switchable on the top of the chassis. One mode works like an 1960 AC30 (channels sum out-of-phase), the other "stock" mode is a juicier, more muscular sound, with plenty of gain and articulation.
It features 3 channels, being the first an Ef86 pre, the second a linkable (with channel3) 12ax7 pre, the third is a 12ax7 1960 top-boost-like channel, with the diference that in this channel (in "stock" mode) you can bring the Eq all the way up and still have a very balanced response.
All the 3 channels can be blended, using patch cable method, for mixing diferent flavours of the three.
The bias adjust pot, can be accessed from the top of the chassis, and adjusted within safe values. Also there is the option for working the power section in Pentode or Triode operation (for diferent sounds and dynamics).
The head cabinet offers an improved ventilation, while protecting the amp, and displaying vintage style look's. The matching 212 cabinet has 2 alnico blues series-wired for 16ohms. But the amp also excells with Alnico gold, G12H, and g12M speakers, all with different tastes.

Features:

Power Output 30 Watts Pentode/ 15 Watts Triode
Output Tubes 4 - EL84
Preamp Tubes 1 - Ef86, 3 - 12ax7
Rectifier 1 - Gz34
Controls (Channel 1) Ef86 Pentode/Triode, Volume, Bright, (Channel 2) Volume, Link, (Channel 3) Volume, Treble, Bass,(All Channels) Cut, (Power section) Pentode/Triode.
Additional 2 distint modes of channel operation (Stock/AC30 style), acessible user friendly bias adjust pot, patch cable channel blending, 8 and 15 ohm outputs, Fx loop on channel 3.

Samples:
(home-recorded with an sm57, 20cm away off-axis)

Stratocaster soft blues - low volume in pentode mode


Stratocaster w/fat 50's single coils


Deluxe HSS Stratocaster w/scn single coils - country


Stratocaster rhythm - ef86(channel 1)


Stratocaster jazz - ef86(channel 1)


Stratocaster funky jazz impro - ef86(channel 1)


Deluxe HSS Stratocaster w/scn single coils - blend channel 1 & 3


Deluxe HSS Stratocaster w/scn single coils - bluesy funk


Deluxe HSS Stratocaster w/scn single coils - triode

Leonidas Spartan 212 cab

This is a matching cab for the Leonidas Spartan 30, using two alnico blue speakers (series wired for 16ohm).
The cabinet is hand crafted solid wood and matching the Spartan design.
There are noticeable tone beneficts from running the amp with this configuration, that allows using the 16ohm tap of the output transformer.

Leonidas "Spartan 30"

After a series of gigs, the amp tested good for life on the road. Still some minor tweaks to be done, but the sound is "vintage awsome". Extremely responsive, and detailed on the clean and crunch sounds, and amazingly juicy overdrive.
Features an internal user-friendly bias control, pentode or triode operation for the power section, a two mode pre-selector to sum the 2 chanels out of phase (like 1960 AC30 design), or keep them stock (for juicier tone). Using NOS amperex ef86 (for chanel one), NOS 12ax7 valvo tubes for pre (chanel 1,2 and eq.), and NOS GE Jan for phase inverter, to get a very detailed sound. It was used in combination with a 1x12 open-back cabinet with an alnico gold.

Leonidas "Spartan 30" - Beta Testing!

De Spartan 30

De Spartan 30

De Spartan 30

De Spartan 30

Leonidas "Spartan 30" - A Custom Build - Under Construction!

Built from scratch. Turret board construction, vintage style hand wound transformers, vintage oil capacitors, carbon resistors and NOS tubes. Inox steel chassis, solid hard wood cabinet.