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Blackstar and Jared James Nichols team up for ground-breaking signature amp and plugin launch
The British amp builder says this is the first time an artist signature amp has been launched on the same day as a matching plugin
“Exceptional tones… All the mids-forward guts one might expect”: PRS DGT 15 Head review
PRS has updated its Texas-voiced David Grissom signature amp with more features, lower wattage and a more approachable price tag
“The boutique amp market thrives and exists as it does today largely thanks to Mike Soldano”: From Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai to Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler, the Soldano SLO-100 changed the sound of shred and blues alike
The SLO-100 made its bones in the hard-rock and shred scenes and yet found its true calling as the amp of choice for Clapton, Knopfler, et al. What makes it such an enduring, versatile model?
How Laney brought volume and best-in-class tone for digital rigs with the world’s loudest active guitar cabinet
In association with Laney Amplification
Developed with a little help from Devin Townsend and Guthrie Govan, the LFR-412 is the first active 4x12 for digital rigs, giving players old-school power and volume to make their amp modeler sing
“All the sounds you could ever want from a Plexi”: Suhr SL68 MkII head review
Is this the ultimate Plexi-inspired tube amp head? The evidence is persuasive...
Ashdown’s mid-priced SX range looks to put a modern spin on classic tube amp tones
Dubbed “cost-effective gems” by their maker, the new SX amps are available in a variety of formats and promise a wide array of sounds
Boss discontinued the Katana:GO mere months after launching it – these are 4 headphone amps you should try instead
With the Boss Katana:GO unexpectedly retiring early, these are the headphone amp alternatives from Fender, Vox, Boss and Positive Grid you should try instead
The Neural DSP team reveal the vintage amp they dream of one day modeling
With the help of its TINA modeling robot, Neural DSP has assembled a huge archive of vintage amp sims – but there’s one it desperately wants to add to the collection
“If somebody said there was a valve amp in the room, you wouldn’t contradict that”: Discover BOSS’ Katana Gen 3 range – an upgraded amp family that offers something for every player
Sponsored by Boss
The latest evolution of BOSS’ award-winning amp collection gets put to the test in Guitarist’s new Tone Lounge episode
