Well known for powering the backlines of guitar gods such as Guthrie Govan, Richie Kotzen and Rabea Massaad, Victory has also had considerable success in the pedalboardsized preamp and amp niche with its award-winning V4 series. The V4 amps are intended to reproduce the tones of Victory’s full-sized heads but in more portable packages, and feature a clever valve preamp section hooked up to an ultra-compact 180-watt Class D power section, with a smooth digital reverb.
Victory recently announced three new additions to complete its V4 amp family: The Copper, The Sheriff and The Jack, the latter of which we have on test here. All three new V4 amplifiers include embedded Two Notes cabinet emulation, a headphones socket and an extra feature called the Valve Response Circuit, VRC