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 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 ...

Self-taught boutique builder Charles Henry puts musicality first with his designs, winning fans including Grace Bowers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite saying his tone “can only come from the ignition inside of a tube”, the Dead & Company guitarist thinks this amp modeler is worthwhile ...

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 ...

New guitar tones can be downloaded into the device, where they run as software rather than as analog electrical circuits in an amp or foot pedal. In other words, the Spark 2 is the latest example ...