Victory MK Amps

The MK family is a labour of love from Martin Kidd and the Victory team. This idea has been in the making for over five years: The idea was simple: could they create the ultimate amps with no constraints on time, price, or materials?

Martin Kidd made his first guitar amp in the early 1990s. Since then Martin has gone on to become one of the most influential & important British amp designers of the last 30 years, as chief designer for Victory & Cornford Amplification, consulting for brands like Fortin, Ampeg & PRS and working with some of the greatest guitar players in the world. The MK series is a culmination of his wealth of experience in the guitar amp world, Martin was given the task of creating the ultimate clean and overdrive amplifier and the MK’s are his results.

From idea to production, every component and fitting is designed to achieve the best sound from an amp. All audio components are mounted on gold-plated turrets, elevated from the circuit boards for cooling and reliability. Victory uses Belton Octal and Noval chassis-mount gold-plated valve bases throughout. These are the best valve sockets available, offering an extremely long service life and superior valve retention. The transformers used are hand-built in the UK by Demeter Transformers and custom-designed by Martin Kidd. These are among the finest available and significantly enhance the tone and feel of your amplifier.

Victory has partnered with Muirhead Scottish Leather to provide the coverings for the MK amps. Muirhead has been producing fine luxury leather in Scotland for over 180 years. Their leather has graced the seats of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, Concorde, the QE2, the Orient Express, and Aston Martin and Land Rover cars. Now, Victory have added these exceptional leathers to the MK family, keeping the entire amp designed and hand-built in the UK.

As the names suggest, the MK Clean delivers beautifully pristine clean-to-breakup tones, perfect for everything from lush country licks to spanking blues and everything in between; while the MK Overdrive goes from saturated crunch to riff-ready distortion in an instant. 

One of the most exciting things about the MK family is the options for customising the look of your own amplifier. All the elements can be tailored to your specifications: the logo, the grill cloth, the speakers, the handles, the corners, and a multitude of Muirhead Scottish Leather colourings. On Victory's website, you can tailor every part of the look of the amp on their customiser, then you can order from Andertons Music Co. right here.