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This is a vintage British made amp from the 1980's in excellent condition for it's age with no marks, scratches, dents etc. It was bought from new and is in perfect working order.
Pro Amp amplifiers were made by a small company in Essex in the 1980's. They also made the KMD amps for Kamen (who owned Ovation). Pro Amp amplifiers were regarded a competitor to Mesa Boogie back in the day and were even rumoured to have been used by Bon Jovi, Level 42 and Captain Sensible at some point.
This amplifier has been extremely well looked after and has been in storage for quite some time and not used. It was only ever used at home at low volume and never actually gigged at any point.
The Pro Amp Venom amp was renowned for it's sparkling clean tones and was often compared to the Fender amps available at the time. It has two footswitchable channels (Clean, Overdrive) and includes a classic spring reverb which sounds excellent.It is a very loud amp and was never really cranked as it was only ever used at home. It's loaded with a Heritage Celestion 12" speaker which on it's own currently costs around the £125 mark alone.
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They were a product of Proamplifiers - Proamp Ltd. a small company from Braintree, Essex that was founded by Roger Haines and John Cooper and that employed about 40 personnel. The amps date to early and mid 1980's.
MOSFET power amp and overdriven CMOS IC's in the pre for soft clipping. There was also a "Demon" which was more of a practice amp and a "Viper" hybrid with a 6L6-based tube power amp (+ solid-state PI, likely similar to one used in Music Man amps). Towards the 1990's they also introduced all-tube VSQ-series of dual-channel amps, which were basically competitors for the popular Mesa/Boogie products.
The company also manufactured those KMD amplifiers, which basically were just Proamp products relabelled and dressed into different cosmetics. Kaman Music didn't let Proamp put their name to the product though, so the connection is somewhat unknown. Proamp went down when Kaman discontinued the KMD line, as Kaman was practically the most noteworthy customer and money-source of that small company.
Those amps pretty much divide opinions - at least the KMD amps do: Some say they sound like ****, some say they are awesome. Basically, for the Proamp part the comments tend to fall to the "awesome" category although they are still the same things as those KMD amps. Funny how it works, isn't it? I believe its up to you determine whether its any good for YOU, though I think you already made your mind on that. The construction quality at least shouldn't be any issue.
