FRENZEL Tube Amps

About Us - Hey Friends! Thanks for stopping by to look at our amps! I built my first tube amp in 1952 and I was hooked. After that I had a five decade engineering career that included designing tube and solid state equipment for the US Army Signal Corps, US Air Force, US Navy, CIA, FAA, and many large companies such as Collins Radio, Rockwell, Raytheon and Texas Instruments. I started Frenzel Tube Amps as a retirement business in 2001. My concept was to build high quality custom tube amps that produce those classic vintage tube amp tones and to sell them at affordable prices... and to give the best customer service in the world. To do this you have to have talented dedicated people who love their work...and we do! Everyone at Frenzel is a master craftsman, loves their work and loves music. My three son's, who got me started building guitar amps for them when they were teenagers back in the 70's, are now all design engineers as well as musicians...and excuse me if I brag a bit.....fantastic guitar players! With their help and a lot of input from all of our "tone freak" friends, we have designed and built thousands of custom tube amps for musicians all over the world. Quality is our most important product, so we hand-build and hand-wire everything in-house at our "rockin" little tube amp factory in the woods of east Texas!

Affordable Prices - All of our amps have their prices listed on the amp description page. We are oftened asked why our amps are so inexpensive compared to other name-brand boutique type amps. The answer is ...we are a small company and have very low overhead...plus we sell direct to the customer....there is no middle man or dealer mark up. Also we do not spend money on advertising. All of our business comes from customer referals. And finally, we do not stock any amps and thus have large amounts of money tied up in inventory. All of our amps are custom built to order. This allows the customer to choose only the options he wants and thereby control the price. All of these reasons allow us to build affordable high-quality tube amplifiers that will outperform and outlast any of the "re-issue" namebrand type amps now being mass produced in China.

We know the economy is making it hard to buy gear, so we have reduced the prices on many of our amps, including some of our best sellers as shown below!

The FRENZEL "Deluxe Plus III" amp is the third generation of our classic FM-5E3 Deluxe Plus. It was "INSPIRED" by the classic Deluxe 5E3...but it is a much more than a clone. It has more power with 6L6's in place of the original 6V6's in the output......plus a lot more features....including Type F and Type M inputs. Think of it as a 5E3 on steroids! Click on amp for more info! Price $795.00

Special Sale Price - $595.00 (includes vintage cage)

The FRENZEL "Super Twin Deluxe Plus" is the upgraded version of our classic open chassis FRENZEL FM - 5E3 "Super Deluxe Plus" which has rave reviews from all over the world. It has two channels with separate gains, tone stacks and masters. The preamps are modeled after the classic Fender Deluxe and Marshall JTM45. This amp will produce tones you have never heard before! Click on amp for more info! Price - $1295.00

Special Sale Price - $995.00

Amp Designs - Our amps are very different from anything else you will find in the boutique amp market.They are unique and were inspired by classic 50's-60's tube amp designs that create the 'TONES YOU KNOW' plus they have many added features and custom options not found in vintage amps which allows you the player to create your own design and your own individual tones! We manufacture a large variety of amps. They have a lot of of upgrade options and we can configure them to suit your individual requirements. Many of our amps come standard as open chassis amps. This gives you the option to build your own custom cabs and save money. We invite you to look at our Customers Pictures page for some examples of excellent custom homemade cabs. We also offer a wide variety of custom enclosures such as Tolex head cabs, combo cabs, vintage steel cages, and rack mount road cases as upgrade options More detailed information, specifications, photos, videos, and sound clips of our amps may be found on the individual amp web pages listed in the MENU BAR at the top of each page.

Quality Features - All of our amps are point-to-point hand wired with no printed circuits or terminal boards. It takes longer to build an amp that way, but the end result is worth it. We think of our amps as works of art. Great care is taken in the routing of the wiring and placement of parts to provide the best signal path. See the Wiring Pictures page for examples of our wiring. Only the best of parts including low noise polypropylene capacitors, metal film resistors, Switchcraft jacks, ceramic sockets, non-magnetic aluminum chassis, premium long-life transformers and high grade hook-up wire are used in our amps. All tubes are prescreened for noise and hum, and tested for optimum performance before insertion in the amp. Before shipping, each amp is tested extensively for 24 hours on the bench and on speakers. This attention to detail produces an amp that will last for generations and give long dependable service. When we ship an amp, our goal is to deliver more than the customer expected. We put our name on our products and our name and reputation are more important to us than anything. Read our Customer Reviews and you will see the truth in this statement.

Thank You! -To our thousands of fans and customers all over the world, I want to say thank you! If it were not for you and your great reviews and referrals, we would not be here. The world is a very large place and we are separated by many cultures and beliefs, but there seems to be in all of mankind a desire to play music and celebrate life.... and I thank God for that gift!

I hope that you enjoy your visit to our site and find something that turns you on! If you have any questions or just want to share something about your music or your life, please feel free to send me an email anytime.

Sincerely,

Jim Frenzel
jim@frenzeltubeamps.com