[Marcel]’s low-voltage tube amp design might spark your interest. The design operates with a B+ (plate) voltage of only 40v, making it less intimidating and dangerous than many other amps that ...

Landing in the sweet spot between ’50s tweed tones and ’60s black-panel sparkle, the ’62 Super is a throwback combo from a ...

NAMM 2025: Bad Cat has announced the welcome return of respected amp designer Mark Sampson – best known as the man who founded Matchless and the design brains behind the brand’s early models ...

Design analysis of the K2-W Vacuum Tube Op Amp’s design and operation reveals the mad science that created a commercial revolution in 1950s and 1960s analog computing. Op amps played a critical ...

It was the Pano Verb, his new signature tube amp that he co-developed with Fender ... White explained some of the finer points of the Pano Verb’s design, the inspiration behind it, and ...

The future of tube amplifier designs lies with such an embrace of technology. It refutes the arguments that say the tube amp design is impractical. As for the sound, you’ve got heaps of gain, of ...

Credit: Bad Cat / YouTube Mark Sampson, one of the great pioneers of tube amp design, has died. A legendary name in US high-end guitar amps, Sampson co-founded Matchless and was the brains behind ...

Boasting 12AX7 preamp tubes and EL34 power amp tubes, a revoiced dual-channel design, tube-driven spring reverb, and a buffered effects loop, this killer amp is designed for power as well as ...

It utilized four EL34 output tubes, one GZ34/5AR4 rectifier tube, two 7199 input (driver ... Aural HiFi “The amp can be restored with its original design intact or, if one desires, it can be heavily ...

This design removes the transformer from the electrical ... but since you don’t buy tube amps for clarity specs, I’ll leave that to the spec section. Simply plug it into your PC over USB ...

so we took care to choose the most sonically and creatively flexible guitar amps for each category based on their design and sound-sculpting abilities. We also included tube-based and solid-state ...

Circuit design does too. And most importantly ... Should you go with a tube or solid-state integrated amplifier? Tube amplifiers certainly require more hands-on maintenance and it is incorrect to ...