The design is inspired by the guitar amps of the 1950s and 1960s so it ... two stage double triode preamp and a single power output tube. The transformers are usually the difficult part of ...

This amp design uses a plate voltage of 12, although the 12AU7 can handle up to about 330. Since the 12AU7 is of the Twin Triode variety, one tube can be used to amplify both a left and ...

All electric guitar players know that the amplifier is just as important — if not more — as the guitar itself for shaping your sound. Each major amplifier model has unique dynamics and tonal ...

In his latest YouTube video, Smith talks tubes, the similarities between automobile and amp hotrodding culture, and admits that not everybody understood his quest for more distortion ...

I just plug my guitar into the amp and I play.” When he plays, he’s partial to the blues. “We play a little slower, and we put feeling and vibrato and stuff onto our notes, and a good tube ...