Yummy… ever in search of smaller and more delectable tube amps for my guitar-playing pleasure, I came across this video over on Fender’s website this morning and just wanted to share it here. It’s a short but tantalizing demonstration of Fender’s newly reissued 5-watt tweed ‘57 Champ, paired with the company’s sexy Custom Shop La [...]
Continue reading...17. December 2009
Ooh, there’s a nice in-depth review of the 1974X and 2061X amplifiers –– each a part of Marshall’s high-end handwired series –– over at Vintage Guitar Magazine’s website. I’ve spent a small amount of time with the 1974X (basically a handwired version of the popular Bluesbreaker model,) and I absolutely loved it, but so far I [...]
Continue reading...9. November 2009
Finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel… Marshall’s latest entry into the low-powered amp market, the all-tube Class5 Combo, has been available and getting great reviews across the pond for many months, but appears to be only now starting to show up in the States — I can’t wait to get my [...]
Continue reading...19. January 2009
I’m still catching up on all the news coming out of the 2009 Winter NAMM show, but one of the bigger stories this year was that PRS Guitars is getting back in the business of amplifiers. Apparently they’ve been collaborating with amp guru Doug Sewell for nearly four years to bring three new high-end guitar amps [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
If you’re in the market for a low-cost guitar amp with reasonable amounts of real tube-mojo you might want to check out Vintage Guitar Magazine’s review of the Epiphone Valve Special and Valve Junior. Granted, these are decidedly cheap amplifiers, but as has been suggested in numerous reviews around the web, both of these Class-A tube [...]
Continue reading...28. February 2008
Cool… I’ve been ever-so-patiently keeping my eyes peeled for a decent hands-on review of the Thunderverb 200 ever since Orange first announced its release over a year ago, but finding much in the way of an in-depth review has been difficult at best. It looks like my wait is over though, because the lucky folks over [...]
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9. March 2010
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