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Guitar amplifiers · Makers
Amplifiers designed for electric guitar.
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Maker
Neural DSP
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
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.
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Matchless Amplifiers
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
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.
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Soldano
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
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.
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Bogner Amplification
Models: 2 · Categories: 1
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.
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Hughes & Kettner
Models: 3 · Sources: 2
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.
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Kemper
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
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.
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Fractal Audio Systems
Models: 3 · Sources: 2
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.
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Diezel Amplification
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
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.
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Dr. Z Amplification
Models: 3 · Sources: 2
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.
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Positive Grid
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
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.
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Line 6
Models: 4 · Sources: 2
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.
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Maker
Roland
Models: 70 · Categories: 10
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.
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Friedman Guitars
Models: 7 · Categories: 2
Friedman is a United States boutique builder founded by Dave Friedman (Rack Systems). The company is best known for Friedman Amplification's hand-wired EL34 guitar amplifiers such as the BE-100 (Brown Eye) and Small Box, and also produces boutique electric guitars.