The sound of the 90s! This is one of the most sought after boutique amplifiers ever made. Matchless was founded in 1989 by Mark Sampson and Rick Perrotta, and the company’s flagship model was designed soon after, following Perrotta’s desire to “build an AC30 that wouldn’t break,” according to Sampson. As it turns out, the resultant DC-30 is far more than a Vox copy, though it does stem from the Matchless founders’ love of shimmering, saturated British class A tone. And it shares many AC30 touch-points such as a four-EL84 output section in cathode-bias with no negative feedback, and a GZ34 rectifier tube.
