Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Buskers of the world take note: Roland has a new battery powered acoustic guitar amplifier that comes in just under $400.00 USD. Your days of being drowned out by the din of passersby are over! Here comes the days of wine and roses, and money filled guitar cases, and maybe the occasional applause of your listeners.
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Paul Reed Smith has just announced a new amplifier called the PRS 30 Combo. The new amp features four of EL84 tubes with a control layout similar to PRS’s Dallas model that was announced a year ago at Winter NAMM 2009. The PRS 30 Combo has a 12” ET65 WGS speaker, reverb and a bright switch. PRS describes it’s tone as “an English sound with an American twist.”
“The PRS 30 Combo offers classic EL84 tones with some special tweaks to the EQ section that give it a character all of its own. All this in a compact but powerful package… the PRS 30 Combo excels at everything from Country to Classic Rock to Blues,” said PRS Amplifier Business Unit Manager Michael Clark.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Paul Reed Smith has added another amplifier to their line up high-end tube amps. The most recent addition is the PRS Sweet 16. The new amp has 16 watts of cathode-biased 6V6 output tube power with features usually found on larger amps such as reverb, a full TMB tone stack, and Paul Reed Smith’s transparent PRS master volume circuit.
PRS also has released a matching cabinet that comes in 1×12 and 2×12. (more…)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
The 3rd Power HLH 100 guitar amp has to be one of the coolest amps we’ve seen in a while. While the head is a nicely built hand-wired 100 watts, it’s the amps distinctive speaker cabinets that make this tone machine stand out.
We’re just picturing a stage with about 30 of these small pyramid shaped cabinets all stacked together to create the ultimate wall of sound. Plus these triangular shaped cabinets have an advantage over their square cousins…
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
We had a friend from Monster Cable recently take a trip over to Bletchley, England to visit the famous Marshall Amp factory to take a look behind the scenes at one of the most iconic amplifier manufacturers in the world. Everyone from Eric Clapton to Zakk Wylde has been seen alongside a Marshall amplifier and we’re going to give you a peek behind the scenes where some of the most rockin’est amps ever were built.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
I had the distinct pleasure of getting a behind-the-scenes look at how the folks at VHT Amplifiers build some of the best priced, best sounding point-to-point, hand wired amplifiers on the market today. For those of you not familiar with VHT the name has been around for almost 20 years. VHT has three main lines of amplifiers - the “Classic Series“, the “Lead Series” and the “Standard Series“. The “Standard Series” are their hand wired amplifiers that are assembled in Brisbane, CA just south of San Francisco, CA. We’ve written about VHT amplifiers before both here and here and at the risk of sounding like fanboys, after getting a chance to hear these amps in person only served to solidify our opinion that these are great sounding tone machines at some of the best prices available for hand wired amps.
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
PRS has introduced a line up of tube amplifiers that were designed in coordination with designer Doug Sewell. Artists Derek Trucks and David Grissmon have already endorsed the new amp line. The PRS amps come in three different models - The Dallas, Blue Sierra, and Original Sewell. The amps look freakin’ sweet in person, check out some detailed photos after the jump. More info at PRSguitars.com.
