Category

Guitar amplifiers

Amplifiers designed for electric guitar.

Models

  • Mesa/Boogie Mark Series

    Amplifier · United States

    The Mark series is Mesa/Boogie's flagship valve amplifier line, running from the original Mark I 'Boogie' through the Mark VII. Known for its lead voice, cascading-gain preamp, and onboard graphic EQ, the Mark series shaped high-gain lead tone and remains central to the brand's identity.

  • Orange Terror

    Amplifier · United Kingdom

    The Terror series is Orange's line of compact, lunchbox-style valve amplifier heads, beginning with the Tiny Terror. The all-valve Terror heads pack cranked Orange tone and switchable output power into small, portable enclosures for home, studio, and stage.

  • EVH 5150III 100W Head

    Amplifier · United States

    The 5150III 100W Head is a 100-watt three-channel all-valve head with eight 12AX7 preamp tubes and four 6L6 power tubes. Each channel has independent gain, three-band EQ, volume, and presence, with a global resonance control and a four-button footswitch for channel and effects-loop switching. It delivers a wide range of hard-rock and metal tones.

  • Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III

    Amplifier · United States

    The Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III is a flagship rackmount amp modeler, preamp, and effects processor for guitar and bass. It features Fractal's Cygnus amp modeling with hundreds of amp models, UltraRes and DynaCab cabinet simulation, and an extensive suite of studio-grade effects.

  • Neural DSP Quad Cortex

    Amplifier · Finland

    The Neural DSP Quad Cortex is a floor-format digital amp modeler, cabinet simulator, and multi-effects processor with a 7-inch touchscreen. It combines a large library of amp and effect models with Neural Capture technology, which captures the sound of real amplifiers.

  • Technical line drawing of Vox MINI SUPERBEETLE

    Vox MINI SUPERBEETLE

    The Vox MINI SUPERBEETLE is a compact Nutube-powered mini stack inspired by Vox Super Beatle styling. It pairs a small head with an open-back 1x10 Celestion speaker cabinet and includes tremolo, digital spring-style reverb, and external speaker outputs.

  • Marshall JVM410H

    Amplifier · United Kingdom

    The JVM410H is a 100-watt all-valve head with four independent channels (Clean, Crunch, OD1, OD2), each with three modes for twelve voices in total. It runs EL34 power valves and ECC83 preamp valves, with four digital reverbs, dual master volumes, and footswitchable memory of channel, reverb, and FX-loop settings.

  • Roland JC-40 Jazz Chorus

    Amplifier · Japan

    The Roland JC-40 Jazz Chorus is a 40-watt solid-state guitar combo amplifier with two 10-inch speakers and Roland's signature Dimensional Space Chorus, plus built-in vibrato, distortion, and reverb. It is a compact, portable take on the flagship JC-120.

  • Orange Crush

    Amplifier · United Kingdom

    The Crush series is Orange's analogue solid-state guitar amplifier line, spanning compact practice combos to gig-ready models. It delivers Orange's signature voicing affordably, with later models adding reverb, a built-in tuner, and a CabSim-loaded headphone output.

  • Diezel Herbert

    Amplifier · Germany

    The Diezel Herbert is a 180-watt all-tube guitar amplifier head powered by six KT77 tubes, with three completely independent channels and separate EQs. It is hand-built in Germany.

  • Matchless DC-30

    Amplifier · United States

    The Matchless DC-30 (sold today as the C-30) is the company's flagship 30-watt, dual-channel Class A tube amplifier. A quartet of EL84 power tubes feeds two independently voiced channels, one built around an EF86 pentode and the other around 12AX7 triodes, and it is hand-wired point-to-point in head and combo formats.

  • Hughes & Kettner TriAmp Mark 3

    Amplifier · Germany

    The Hughes & Kettner TriAmp Mark 3 is the company's flagship all-tube guitar amplifier head, delivering up to 150 watts through three independent preamp and power-amp sections for six channels. It offers full MIDI recall and supports multiple power tube types including 6L6, EL34, and KT-series.

Technical line drawing of Guitar amplifiers
Technical line drawing of Guitar amplifiers

Makers

  • Neural DSP

    Neural DSP Technologies is a Finnish company known for high-quality guitar and bass amp modeling. In addition to its software plugins, it makes the Quad Cortex and Nano Cortex hardware modelers, which feature Neural Capture technology for capturing real amplifiers.

  • Matchless Amplifiers

    Matchless Amplifiers is a United States boutique amplifier builder established in 1989 in Los Angeles, California. Matchless amps are hand-wired point-to-point and known for Class A, EL84-based designs such as the DC-30 (C-30) and the EL34-powered Chieftain.

  • Soldano

    Soldano Custom Amplification is a United States amplifier builder founded by Mike Soldano in 1987. Its Super Lead Overdrive (SLO) became a defining modern high-gain tube amplifier, and Soldano amps are hand wired in the USA.

  • Bogner Amplification

    Bogner Amplification is a boutique guitar amplifier builder founded by Reinhold Bogner in Los Angeles, California in 1989. Bogner is known for high-headroom, multi-channel tube amplifiers such as the Ecstasy and Shiva, hand-built in California.

  • Hughes & Kettner

    Hughes & Kettner is a German guitar amplifier manufacturer founded in 1984 in St. Wendel by Hans and Lothar Stamer. It is known for programmable, feature-rich tube amplifiers such as the TriAmp and GrandMeister, plus the solid-state Spirit series, and signature technologies including the Red Box DI and Tube Safety Control.

  • Kemper

    Kemper is a German music technology manufacturer founded by Christoph Kemper. It is best known for the Kemper Profiler, introduced in 2011, which pioneered amp 'profiling' - capturing digital snapshots of real guitar amplifiers, cabinets, and effects.

  • Fractal Audio Systems

    Fractal Audio Systems is a United States manufacturer founded by Cliff Chase, known for high-end guitar amp modeling and effects processors. Its products use Cygnus amp modeling and include the rackmount Axe-Fx III and the FM9 and FM3 floor units.

  • Diezel Amplification

    Diezel Amplification is a German amplifier builder founded by Peter Diezel in 1992. Diezel is known for premium, hand-built high-gain tube amplifiers made in Germany, most famously the four-channel VH4 and the 180-watt Herbert.

  • Dr. Z Amplification

    Dr. Z Amplification is a United States boutique amplifier builder founded by Mike Zaite in 1988 in Maple Heights, Ohio. The company is known for hand-wired EL84- and KT-based tube amps such as the Maz series and the Route 66.

  • Positive Grid

    Positive Grid is a guitar technology company known for its BIAS amp-modeling software and the Spark line of smart modeling practice amplifiers, which combine amp/effect modeling with app-based features such as Smart Jam and Auto Chords.

  • Line 6

    Line 6 is a United States manufacturer founded in 1996 and now part of Yamaha. A pioneer of guitar amp modeling, it makes the Helix and POD families of modelers and the Catalyst series of modeling amplifiers.

  • Roland

    Roland is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments, including synthesizers, drum machines such as the TR-808, and the JC-120 Jazz Chorus, a benchmark solid-state guitar amplifier known for its built-in stereo chorus and produced since 1975.

Part of

  • Amplifiers

    Instrument amplifiers — guitar and bass amps, heads, combos, cabinets, and modelers.

Subcategories

  • Starter guitar combo amps

    Beginner-friendly guitar combo amplifiers, especially modeling or effects-equipped combos that can cover practice, lessons, recording, and first rehearsals without a separate pedalboard.