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SUPER BEE 112

The Super Bee first emerged from Carr’s North Carolina workshop at the tail end of 2020 and has already created a considerable buzz. Dressed here in two-tone blonde and brown tolex, the Super Bee is designed around a cathode bias 10-watt circuit with spring reverb and EZ81/6CA4 rectification, as well as a built-in attenuator.

Genuine point-to-point amp construction of the standard you’ll find here is pretty rare in modern amp-building but, as evidenced by other amps in the Carr range, it results in outstanding reliability and touch-sensitive tonal response. To achieve its stated aim of obtaining Super Reverb-inspired tones at the more restrained volume levels required by modern players, Carr

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