After selling all his Dumbles in 2016, the bluesman is back with a vengeance – but insists he won’t be buying any more big amps from here on…

With two channels, footswitchable boost, onboard effects and IRs, this lightweight head has a lot going on – and there are matching 2×12 and 4×12 speaker cabs to…

It’s lightweight, high-powered, features LAIR onboard IR tech, modulation and reverb, and is voiced to compete with tube amps …

Thankfully, he’s given his best amp-buying tips, and he reckons getting hold of the right gear needn’t be expensive or complex. Indeed, when his astronomically pricey rig isn’t…

Joe Bonamassa’s “amp shanty” is the stuff of legend – and many a YouTube video tour. You will no doubt be familiar with some of his heavy hitters,…

There are two adjustment dials and three probe leads. Biasing adjustments for tube amplifiers regulates a negative voltage across the output tubes to optimize their performance. Typically, biasing…

Here’s how it works. For all the technological advancements we’ve seen in guitar amplification, the tube amp remains, for many guitarists, the platonic ideal. Of course, no one…

While Munich descended further into a cosplay convention for audiophile aristocrats, Q Acoustics showed up like Blackadder at a royal banquet—armed with wit, purpose, and a blunt object…

Serving as the perfect match for the AV 20 preamp/processor, Marantz’s new AMP 20 is a 12-channel power amplifier designed to deliver clean, robust power—up to 200 watts…