Sundragon and Jimmy Page have released the Dragonette, a six-watt tube combo amp. Only 50 limited-edition models will be made, and each one costs $9,000, according to Guitar World.
Builders in New York wire every Dragonette by hand, using new old stock parts and tubes. Sundragon makes each amp to order, and Jimmy Page signs every one. Buyers can order it now.
The Dragonette pairs the preamp from the Sundragon Nymph with the power section of the original Sundragon combo. Jimmy Page described the design in an Instagram post.
“Enter the Dragonette, an amp with the preamp of the Nymph and the power section of my original amp, slightly scaled back to six watts with a carefully chosen 10 inch speaker,” Jimmy Page said.
“The result is a perfect blend of the old and new,” he added.
A Premier Guitar review lays out the setup of the standard model: a 1×10 layout, two 12AX7 preamp tubes, and two 6V6 power tubes. A 10-inch Celestion Alnico Gold speaker sits inside. Players get volume and tone knobs plus a three-way rotary switch. It picks attenuated mode, full power, or full power with a treble booster.
Attenuated mode drops the output to four watts. A line-out jack with its own volume control is also built in. The reviewer points to two versions. One is a standard edition at $3,900. The other is the limited edition that Page signs, which uses new old stock tubes.
Page started Sundragon with amp builder Mitch Colby and producer and collector Perry Margouleff. The company builds amps based on the gear Jimmy Page played with Led Zeppelin.
His original amp was a modified Supro Coronado, used on the band’s debut album. It came with two 10-inch speakers. Those were swapped for one 12-inch Oxford alnico speaker after the amp reportedly fell out of the back of a truck.
Orders for the Dragonette go straight through the website.
