Why Charles Henry’s Silktone tube amps are rapidly gathering fans
Self-taught boutique builder Charles Henry puts musicality first with his designs, winning fans including Grace Bowers and ...
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John Mayer names the pedal he thinks every young guitar player should consider buying
Despite saying his tone “can only come from the ignition inside of a tube”, the Dead & Company guitarist thinks this amp ...
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John Mayer will never turn his back on tube amps, but he says this pedal is the next best thing
The guitarist's comments come in the wake of his clever solution to the noise restrictions that affected Dead & Company’s Las ...
Revv Amplification and Joey Landreth join forces for a signature take on the D25 tube combo
Landreth's D25 might be a single-channel affair with old-school aesthetics but with six onboard virtual cabs, MIDI ...
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“His original designs set a benchmark for tone, craftsmanship, and reliability”: Bad Cat's legendary boutique amp designer Mark Sampson has died
Mark Sampson, one of the great pioneers of tube amp design, has died. A legendary name in US high-end guitar amps, Sampson co-founded Matchless and was the brains behind some of the early models ...
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Steve Vai’s favourite amp brand Synergy unveils a 20W “preamp module platform” with onboard IRs
Synergy has unveiled the SYN-20IR, a tube amp head with a revolutionary design that allows players to swap preamp modules in and out, making for a fully customisable guitar amp – and this head has ...
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For this year’s Hackaday Prize, [skrodahl] is building a beautiful tube preamp ... name remains as a nod to the original design. The design of this amp uses octal 6J5 tubes, a 80 VDC, 0.1 ...