Latest about Guitar Amps
NAMM 2024: “Harmonically rich American tone in a compact and easily portable package”: Gibson’s relaunched guitar amplifier line takes flight with the Randall Smith-designed Falcon tube combos
The Falcon 20 and Falcon 5 are all-tube combos, based on the Gibson amps of the '60s and designed with Smith and his Mesa/Boogie team in California
"I know in my heart, I want to hear that sound in my head" – Joe Satriani is having a custom 3rd Power amp built for the Van Halen tribute tour and it's based on Eddie's 1986 live choice
"But the main thing will be, can you have that one sound that will carry you through?"
NAMM 2024: Laney antes up with the launch of the world’s most-powerful FRFR guitar cabinet – a 4x12 monster packing 2600W that was developed with Devin Townsend
You will hear the Laney LFR-412 in action on Guthrie Govan's forthcoming tour with The Aristocrats... With max volume a jet plane rivalling 139dB, you will hear it from anywhere!
Neural DSP launches refreshed and expanded Archetype: Gojira X plugin and prospect of Joe Duplantier’s city-levelling guitar tones on a Quad Cortex come closer
Duplantier’s signature plugin is the latest to be updated by Neural DSP, and will soon be compatible with Quad Cortex amp modellers once the latter is updated
It looks like Gibson Amps will be making a comeback very soon
NAMM 2024: The company's new reveal confirms the return of a cult classic model and some spec details
Neural DSP rolls out Quad Cortex CorOS 2.3.0 update and officially launches Cortex Control desktop controller – a “true milestone” in the amp modeller’s evolution
Cortex Control is now available as a free download, with Neural promising “unprecedented levels of creative control’, and there’s a cool animated video to demonstrate its features
"If it gets mushy at all, he's out" – Metallica producer Greg Fidelman confirms James Hetfield used a very specific blend of four amps together in the studio for the 72 Seasons album
Best of 2023: "It gets pretty hairy" says the producer on the volume levels
“People say it’s like going to Wonka’s candy factory”: PRS Guitars is offering tours of its Maryland factory
Get up close and personal with the 27-fret Sorcerer’s Apprentice and other rarities in the PRS archive and see what goes on behind-the-scenes at a high-end guitar brand
“I’m sure if we found another tape where Jimi’s voice is buried, I know I could use something similar”: Eddie Kramer talks AI and digital audio restoration, and hints at more Jimi Hendrix recordings to come
In the '60s, Kramer helped make Hendrix's tone dreams come true. Now he is making his fans' dreams come true restoring lost tapes, and he doesn't rule out AI sound separation saving a future mix
