Every guitarist’s dream is to walk on stage in front of thousands of people and just get lost in the moment. There is nothing quite like that experience. But before anyone can get to that stage, they need to spend thousands of hours practicing. Since not all of us have an access to a recording …
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Creating a good sound for metal is all about having beefy pickups and a good distortion. And while you probably have a beastly amp for gigs and stage use, you’ll need something that will allow you to experience that kind of sound at home without having police called on you for noise complaints. There are …
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Vox amps have pretty much had one of the largest impacts on guitar amplification, and the industry that was later formed. This one company single-handedly created a type of sound that many would later aspire to recreate. As fate would have it, only a small handful would go on to succeed in this endeavor. The …
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Modeling and solid state amps have their benefits, and have definitely changed the playing field when they showed up. They are affordable, bring a decent sound, and support a whole array of features that make them the optimal choice in most cases. Some of these amps even come with digital amp emulation, and allow you …
Just what kind of amps you can expect to see from Marshall is something that needs no special explanation in this Marshall JCM 2000 Review. This company has been making some of the best amps on the market for better half of a century. When you have that kind of experience, you are pretty much …
In a way, combo bass amps have become the standard. Unless you are playing on a large stage, a decent combo amp will give you all the power you need to cut through the mix. These amps come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, depending on what speaker is installed and what kind of …
Powerful But Portable Sound: Check out the Best Combo Bass Amp Read More »
Back in 1975, Roland launched the first JC120 Jazz Chorus amp. There would be nothing too notable about this if it wasn’t one of the earliest solid state amps on the market. It was also one of the first amps to have a digital chorus section built into the circuitry. At the time, it was …
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Guitar amps come in sizes and flavors. You have tube and modeling amps, combos and amp heads, low watt versus high watt amps, and so on. Each one of these is built with a specific purpose in mind. Overall, the best of the best, the absolute heavy weight champions of electric guitar amplifications are going …
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Seeing how tube amps are slowly coming back in style, most of the amp manufacturers have decide to answer the call, and start producing great little tube amps. This a relatively new thing. Until recently the only low power amps you could get were modeling amps. The market voiced its wish to be given a …
I play the guitar for quite some time now, and I can honestly say that guitar amps are vital, but they can be a pain in the posterior. Here’s the real dilemma. The Problem You can have an amp that is very good sound quality and produces a hefty amount of volume, but it would …
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