Custom Hand-Wired Tube Amplifiers

Frenzel Tube Amplifiers
Custom Built To Order Vintage Hand-Wired Tube Amps
Made in America -"Designed To Last For Generations" - Since 1952

Welcome! Thanks for stopping by to look at our amps.   My name is Jim Frenzel. I am old rock'n roll guy from the 50's. I built my first tube amp in 1952 and I was hooked. It had a pair of 6SL7 triodes in the preamp driving a pair of "big bottle" 807 tetrodes that produced the warmest tones I had ever heard. It rocked me through the 50's and led me into a five decade engineering career that included designing communication equipment for the Army, Air Force, Navy, CIA, FAA. I also did work for many large companies such as Collins Radio, Raytheon, Rockwell and Texas Instruments. In 2001, I started Frenzel Tube Amps as a retirement business. My concept was to build custom high quality 50's vintage style tube amps 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, built, and restored thousands of 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 "rock'n" little tube amp factory in the woods of east Texas!

To our thousands of friends 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. Your kind words and compliments on our amps give meaning to what we do here at Frenzel. 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....to rock!...and I thank God for that gift! If you are a first time visitor, thanks for thinking of us for your amp needs! You can't beat our quality or prices. I hope that you enjoy your visit to our site and find something that turns you on! If you have any questions, comments or want to share something about your music, your gear or what's going on in your life, please feel free to email me anytime at jim@frenzeltubeamps.com

   Rock On!

           Jim Frenzel

BEST SELLERS!
ON SALE - LOWEST PRICES EVER!

"Mini Bassman"
$595.00

"Super Deluxe "
$595.00

"Sweet Little 15"
$495.00

Unique Custom Designs Built To Your Order
Guitar - Bass - Harp - Keyboard - PA - Stereo - HiFi

Tones You Know

Custom Cabinets

Vintage Steel Cage

Rack Mount Head Cab

Rack Mount Chassis

Rack Mount Road Case

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 in low and high power ranges. They have a lot of of upgrade options and we can configure them to suit your individual requirements. Many of our amps are sold as open chassis amps. This gives you the option to build your own custom cabs and save money. I invite you to look at the our Pictures page which shows some of the custom cabs our customers have built. We also offer enclosures including vintage steel cages, Tolex head cabs, combo cabs and rack mount road cases. More detailed information, specifications, photos, videos, and sound clips of our amps may be found on the individual amp web pages listed on the MENU BAR at the top of each page.

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. Only the best of parts including low noise polypropylene capacitors, metal film resistors, Switchcraft jacks, ceramic sockets, premium heavy duty transformers and high grade hook-up wire are used in our amps.Details can be seen on our Wiring Pictures page.

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 test bench in the lab and on speakers in our sound studio. 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 Reviews page and you will see the truth in this statement.

Factory Direct Super Low 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 that we are a small company with a very low overhead, and we sell direct to the customer. We do not use dealers, so there is no middle man or dealer mark up. Also we do not spend money on advertising. All of our business comes from reviews on the web and customer referrals. 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 high-quality tube amplifiers at reasonable prices that will outperform and outlast any of the "re-issue" namebrand type amps now being mass produced in China.	"Frenzel Super Twin 100" 100 Watts 6L6's - F & M Preamps - Fender Clean - Marshall Bright Master - Presence/Edge $995.00

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Hot Rod Preamps!	Repair and Restoration Guitar Amps & Jukebox Amps In addition to manufacturing amps, we have been repairing and restoring vintage amps for over 50 years. We have a state-of-the-art lab with schematic and manuals on 1000's of amps. Our prices are reasonable and we will give you a free estimate before the work is done. For more info email us at info@frenzeltubeamps.com Retro Conversions Do you have a vintage PA or HI-Fi tube amp? We can convert it to a guitar amp for you. For more info email us at info@frenzeltubeamps.com 35 Watt Fleming PA - Fender Bassman	SS-4772 Stereo Hi Fi Amp

Vintage Guitar Magazine Review by Sean O'Bryan Smith “Old School Bang Without Breaking the Bank” Looking for the vintage Fender, Marshall, Matchless, and VOX tube tones? Look no more! The Frenzel "Hot Rod" Preamps will get you there...whether you are driving a solid state amp or tube amp...you will get those great vintage warm clean and rockin' overdrive tones. Dual Pro 1 Hot Box 1 Rocker 800Z		"The Ultimate Amp For Your Vintage Vinyl" The FRENZEL Stereo 4772 was designed as a stereo amp platform for all your audio gear. It will transform you back to the time when tubes ruled the audio world. If you love the vintage high fidelity tube sound....you will love this amp. It comes standard with many unique features including a separate volume, tone stack, and presence controls for each channel which allows you to fine tune the sound just the way you like it. Hooked up to the output of your CD player or Entertainment Center, it will give you stereo sound like you have never heard before. It comes with three input interfaces to select up to 3 different devices such as PHONO, CD, or AUX. We also offer as an option a custom input interface for use as a power amp for your musical instruments....such as a guitar or keyboard. Specifications: - Power: 15 watts per channel (EL84's) 30 watts per channel (EL34's) - Class: Class A Cathode Bias - Frequency Response: 20 to 20,000 hz - Distortion: Less than 1% - Input Impedance: Phono 70K ohms CD - 1 Meg AUX - 1 meg - Output Impedance: 4 - 8 - 16 ohm - Input: 1.0 v RMS for full output - Dual Tone Stacks: Bass, Mid, Treble - Presence with NNFB Edge Switch

Vintage Radio - Shortwave Receiver Restoration and Repair

Repairing old vintage radios is more than a job to me. It is a pleasure....a trip back to the past. I grew up the 40's during the golden days of radio and fondly remember listening to programs after school like the Lone Ranger, Superman, and the Green Hornet...and in the evening listening to the shortwave bands with my parents as we sought out the latest news from England and Europe about the war...the war to end all wars...World war II. If you have a family heirloom radio that needs repair, we will be glad to help you with it. We can do a minor repair or a complete restoration including electronics, speakers and cabinets. For more info email me at jim@frenzeltubeamps.com