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Mack Amps Heatseeker HS-18 guitar amp key features:

  • Power tube overdrive - real rock tone!
  • Beautiful, chimey and shimmering clean tones.
  • Juicy, lush crunch and distortion (AC/DC tone for MILES!).
  • Touch sensitivity and extreme dynamic response.
  • Gain and bass boost switch.
  • Like all Mack amps, the Heatseeker is hand made in Toronto... not overseas!

What's the big deal with the Mack Heatseeker HS-18?

Classic crunch/distortion, chimey cleans and hand made quality for only $749!

The only way to get authentic crunch and distortion like Keith, Angus, Cream/Dominos-era Clapton, etc. is to overdrive power tubes!  That's what Mack Amps are all about.

Turn up the Heatseeker HS-18's volume and you will hear what classic power tube overdrive sounds like - harmonically complex, British voiced crunch and distortion.

What about cleans?  EL84s are known for their chime and the HS-18's clean tones are addictively chimey and shimmering!

Mack Amps Endorsing Artist David Barrett plays an original song 'Hollowbody' through a Mack Heatseeker HS-18 and a Skyraider SR-15

Click on the links below the video screen to see Wendell Ferguson's Heatseeker HS-18 demo videos.

Hot, Strat | Burn, Strat | Melt, Strat | Melt, SG | Controls

Heatseeker specs

  • Handmade, hand wired using an eyelet circuit board with Teflon wire and lead-free solder
  • Each Heatseeker undergoes a 59 point bench test prior to two playing tests
  • 18 watts
  • 2 X EL84 power tubes, cathode biased
  • 2 x 12AX7 preamp tubes
  • Solid state rectification with ‘sag’ circuitry
  • Volume, tone controls
  • Character Switch, 3 position: Hot, Burn, Melt
  • Rugged cabinet finished with black Tolex
  • 18 ½” W x 8 ½” H x 8 ½” D
  • 117/120 VAC, 60 Hz