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Carr Amplifiers

American guitar amplifier manufacturer

Carr Amplifiers is a Pittsboro, North Carolina, manufacturer of high-end, hand-wired tube guitar amplifiers.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Carr Amplifiers is a Pittsboro, North Carolina, manufacturer of high-end, hand-wired tube guitar amplifiers.²

Listed on Wikidata.¹

Carr Amplifier models include:

Mercury V (16 watts, 2 x 6V6's, Celestion Creamback M)

Lincoln (18/6 watts, 2 x EL84's, Celestion Creamback M) discontinued

Impala (44 watts, 2 x 6L6's, 5751, 12AT7, 2 x 12AX7, 1x12" Eminence Elsinore)

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Sportsman (19 watts, two 6V6's, three 12AX7's, one 12AT7, 1x12" Eminence "Red-White & Blues")

Raleigh (3.5 watts, one EL-84, two 12AX7's, 1x10" Jensen Jet)

Viceroy (formerly the Vincent) (7/33 watts, two 6L6, one 12AT7, and three 12AX7 tubes, and a 12" Eminence speaker) discontinued

Rambler (14/28 watts, two 6L6 tubes.)

Slant 6V (18/22/40 watts, four 6V6 or 6L6, four 12AX7, and four 12AT7 tubes, and a 12" Eminence speaker) discontinued

Skylark (12 watts, switchable variable attenuator 1.2 watts down to zero, two 6V6GT, two 12AX7, two 12AT7, 1x12" Celestion A Type)

Telstar (16 watts, one 12AX7, one 12AT7, one 6SL7, one EL84, one 5881 (6L6GC type) (swappable for 6v6 or EL34), 1x12" Carr Valiant speaker)

From Wikipedia’s article on Carr Amplifiers, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.³

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