Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size ...

The folks at [ElectroSmash] recently released 1Wamp – a one watt, open hardware, Guitar amplifier packed with features. It consists of a JFET based pre-amplifier, a Big Muff Pi a.k.a BMP based ...

The world's first reactive load box with a Celestion approved load response, the Torpedo Reload II is a compelling sequel that's packed with features to get the most from your tube amps ...

The design is inspired by the guitar amps of the 1950s and 1960s so it’s not for audiophiles. The circuit is a pretty conventional single-ended one with a two stage double triode preamp and a ...

Tone King has unveiled the Imperial Preamp, a “high-voltage tri-tube” preamp pedal that takes the tones of the Baltimore, ...

The Woburn III is the largest, best-sounding, most versatile, and most expensive of Marshall’s wireless speaker offerings.

Best guitar amps 2025: Our pick of combos, heads and pedalboard amps for all budgets and abilities Our expert pick of the best guitar amps for rock, metal, blues and more – including tube, solid-state ...

To get those tone-rich sounds that pulled you in to start with, you need an amplifier and some neighborly understanding, amongst other guitar-rig essentials… or do you? Nowadays, there are many ...

At a time when the music world was obsessed with the toasty distortion of tube amplifiers, Roland took a bold step in the ...

I learned from books and by playing along with CDs, and I jacked my Charvel guitar (awesome) into a Session guitar amp (terrible), and I never really got any better. Now, 30-odd years later, I’m at it ...

A tribute concert honoring Mason City native Mark Sampson, a highly regarded recording engineer and guitar amplifier designer ...