Guitar Amplifier Manufacturers

Allen Amplification offers six all-tube handwired guitar combo amplifiers or heads. They are based on the classic blackface and brownface American circuits from the 60s, They mix the proven tone and reliability of a brand new amp, with a few new modern features for today's demanding players. The six models include: Sweet Spot, Accomplice, Brown Sugar, Hot Fudge, Encore and Old Flame. These amps range from 15 watts to 40 watts.

Ampeq offers three different models of guitar amplifiers: J-20, J-12T and SJ-12T. The J-20 is 20-watts, all-tube and point-to-point wired. It features three 12AX7 tubes and a dual 6V6 output stage that operates in a fixed biased mode.

Ashdown Engineering offers three different type of guitar amplifiers: the fallen angel DSP all tubes, the fallen angel DSP tube-pres and the fallen angel 180s. The all tubes are 2-channel guitars amps with built in digital effects, a foot switchable channel selection, boost and dual master volumes. There are 3 different models of all tubes. The tube-pres are identical to the all tubes, but with a revolutionary tube-emulating solid-state output stage that interacts with the speakers. There are 4 different models of tube pres. The 180s have a sophisticated foot switch and 6 EL34s in the output stage.

Budda is a fine manufacture of guitar amplifiers. They offer two distinct models: the super drive series II and the hand wired. The super drive series features include:18 watts, 2 EL84's and a 5u4 rectifier tube, treble, mid, and bass controls, rhythm volume, master volume, drive control, rhythm & hi gain channels and an effects loop. It is the leader for low wattage amps. The hand wired models features include: hand wired point to point, 2 GT EL84 2 12AX7 1 GT5U4 tube compliments, gold plated tube sockets & upgraded components, custom mirror anodized purple chassis, a class AB power section and custom wound transformers.

Carvin offers seven different series of guitar amplifiers: Vintage series, X100B series, SX series, Master Tube series, Steve Vai Legacy series, V3 series and the Acoustic series.

Each one of these series consists of several different models.

Speakers include heavy duty 300 watt PS12 with horn tweeters and features include 3 drive modes.

Chicago Blue Box has four different amps: the Buddy Guy Signature, the Halsted, the Kingston and the Roadhouse. The Buddy Guy Signature amp is a sonic recreation of Buddy Guys number one 1959 amplifier. It has 60 watts, a 10" custom, 2-6L6TAD, 3-12AX7, a 20' AC cord, a pine finger jointed cabinet, a tweed black lacquer finish, a cane grill for its tonal transparent quality, a hand wound paper interleaved output transformer and 1 watt custom made resistors with drifted component values. The Halsted amp has 18 watts into 8 ohms, a 12" tone tubby, a 10' AC cord, a master volume type circuit design, 3-12AX7 preamp tubes and external speakers out. The Kingston amp has 18 or 30 watts, a 12" ceramic speaker, a tube driven reverb circuit, a long style reverb tank, slave and external speaker out jacks, 3-12AX7 preamp tubes and 1-5AR4 rectifier tube. The Roadhouse amps have 50 watts, 5-12AX7 tubes and 1-5AR4 tube.

Crate features six series of amplifiers: Profile, FlexWave, V-Series, VTX Vintage Effects, Taxi Battery Powered and Crate Acoustic. Profile amps are amp profile with advanced DSP in a convenient combo format. FlexWave amps are the most advanced, high-powered, high-gained combos and heads. The V-series are all tube tones. The VTX Vintage Effects series amps are for analog guitars. Taxi Battery powered amps are the standard for outlet-free amplification. Crate Acoustic amps have natural tone and electric performance. Each series consists of several different models.

Daedalus acoustic guitar amps provide you with audiophile amplification quality for your guitar, violin, mandolin, cello, bass, or any other acoustic instrument. They even provide great sound for your voice. With a Deadalus system you can enjoy the full sonic potential of your instrument even when amplified.

Earwig offers a handcrafted portable amplifier for your headphones or external speakers. It is so small that it fits in the palm of your hand, but it can pump out plenty of sound for your guitar or bass. Its specifications include: a headphone output jack, an on/off switch, a guitar input jack, a DC power input jack, a 9volt battery slide compartment and a 1/8 inch male stereo. Visuals.

Edward Amplification makes vacuum tube amps that are efficient and reliable. They are designed for low power amplification and are perfect for the home studio. They offer two types of amplifiers: The ED and the HED. Some features that are included are: 14 watts, push-pull vacuum tube power using two 6BM8 pentode/triode tubes, a standby/operate switch, a celestion 12 inch "greenback" 25 watt speaker, hi-gain switching and separate gains, boost that is foot switchable, metal film resistors and a 200 watt AC outlet

Electrosonic offers a variety of custom built amplifiers. They have two different types of amplifiers, standard and custom. Standard includes electrosonic and reproduction amplifiers. Electrosonic amps include the Thermosonic, the Solaris, the Neptune, the Fireball, the Parallax and the Aquaverb. Reproduction amplifiers includes over 40 different models of amps. They range from combos, to heads, to multiple speakers, to low power and to high power. The custom amps are customizations of any other amps that they have.

Fargen guitar amps are made with high quality world class components. Configurations are made by the master carpenter Jeff Earl of J. design and each piece is built in his personal studio. They offer four series of amps: the Fargen Exclusives, the Tube guitar amps, the custom guitar amps and the discontinued amp models. Each series consist of a variety of models that will meet every players‘ needs. Some tubes that are included: 12ax7, 6L6, Gz34, 6V6, 6SL7, 12AY7, 12AX7 and 5AR4/GZ34.

Fender has over 15 different series of amplifiers that will meet the needs of any player. They have acoustasonic, bassman, battery powered, custom, cyber, dyna-touch, FM, front man II, G-DEC, hot rod, hot rod enclosures, metalhead, protube, professional, rumble, specialized, ultra light and vintage.

Fuchs Audio Technology offers handcrafted tube boutique guitar amplification. Their product line includes models from 7 through 150 watts and one to three channels. They employ innovative construction and circuit designs for unmatched tone and response. Their models are the triple drive supreme, the overdrive supreme, the black jack 21 and the lucky seven. Each model has customizing options that will fit your specific needs.

Genz offers two series of guitar amplifiers: the el Diablo Series and the Black Pearl Series. The El Diablo series has five models and the Black Pearl Series has four models. The Black Pearl series is meticulously designed with an all-tube signal path, component selection and custom transformers that add responsive, thick and rich tone.

Gibson amps include the 15 watt GA20RVT with tube reverb and tremolo, GA5 Les Paul Junior at 5 watts and two channels, and the Power Stealth power attenuator for practice and recording.

Guytron is the maker of the new GT20 1x12”, the GT-100 and the GT100-FV

combo amplifier. They include everything you need, and exclude everything that you don't really need. They feature a master volume control that actually works, with a pre-amp section that sounds and acts like a cranked amp at any volume, and usable channel switching that doesn't require tonal adjustment when you switch channels. They are studio grade and have a transformer driven series-parallel effects loop capable of running anything from vintage pedals to 'state of the art' rack effects. They are also available with an absolute minimum of knob turning and tweaking.

Hartke offers over a dozen different series of guitar amplifiers. They have acoustic amps, tri-amps, GH-amps, GT-amps, Hydrives amps, LH amps and XL amps.

Hatcher offers six different models of guitar amplifiers. The 5E3 Deluxe Amp, 5F6A Bassman Combo, 6G15 Reverb Unit, HATCHER 5800 HGMV, HATCHER 5800 STD, Hatcher R-18 Head. The deluxe 5E3 comes with 1/12" Weber BueDog AlNiCo speaker.

The Bassman comes with 4/10" Weber BluePup AlNiCo speakers. The 6G15 is a stand alone reverb unit. The 5800 HGMV is 50 watts with individual volume controls for both normal and HG channels. The STD is a smaller version of the HGMV.

Henriksen offers jazz amps that are small, light, powerful and inexpensive. Thier JazzAmp 10 has an Eminence speaker in a cabinet that is 14" x 14" x 8.5" and weighs in at only 20 pounds. It is 80 watts at 4 ohms and has Line-X coating.

Peavey offers a wide variety of acoustic, guitar and steel guitar amplifiers. They include head, cabs or combos and consist of low and high watts.

Randall manufactures custom amplifier series: MTS, MTS Signature, XL, G3, Tube, KH and RX series. The MTS are very flexible all tube amps that allow you to customize your components. The MTS Signatures consist of many specialized amps. The XL series include Valve-Dynamic circuits, G3 include 3 high powered heads or 4 high powered combos, and the tubes incorporate 4 modes of operation in 2 fully independent channels. The KH series are 120 watts and the RX series range from 12 watts to 200 watts.

Rivera guitar amplifiers consist of nine different models: Venus 3, Venus 6, K Tre, Chubster, Fandango, Pubster and Clubster, Quiana, Sedona and Suprema. Some features include: 2 channels powered by E-34’s, mid scope, 6v6 power, JBL woofers and a variety of watts.

Roland is the maker of the Cube-30 amplifier. It has a ten inch speaker with 30 watts of power, 3-band EQ, and built-in DSP effects. Has 8 distinct guitar amp sounds, independent delay/reverb processing and a auxiliary input.

Soldano offers custom guitar amplifiers in 12 different models. Some features include: 2 speaker jacks, 50 watt channel heads, independent preamps, master volume controls and footswitches.

Specimen offers custom tube amplifiers that are handcrafted. The tone and response characteristics of these cathode-biased units closely resemble those of Leo Fender's grand old Tweed amps. They have horn amplifiers and old fashion stereo amplifiers. They also have a 50 watt amp with two 6L6 and two 12AX7 tubes.

Tony Bruno amps are handcrafted and custom built exclusively by Tony.They include: point to point wired circuits on custom boards or terminal strips, massive precision custom wound transformers, CTS pots, special US made caps, New Old Stock and Hi-End resistors, phenolic and ceramic tube sockets, stainless steel bolts and screws, heavy duty steel chassis, steel corners, finger jointed solid pine cabinets, 13 ply Baltic birch baffles, comfortable padded handles, premium or NOS tubes, and your choice of almost any covering and speakers.

TopHat Amplifiers are hand built, point-to-point circuit, high performance tube amplifiers. They offer six different series of amps with features such as: GZ34 rectifier tubes, impedance selectors, adjustable lines out and passive effects loops.

UltraSound is the premier manufacturer of acoustic amplifiers today. They offer four different models: the DSX power stack, the DS+, CP 100 and the AG 30. The DSX power stack has 2 channels, including phantom-powered microphone inputs for each channel. Each channel also sports its own volume and active EQ. The DS+ has the ability to handle attack transients without compressing the sound. The CP 100 has a 3 way toggle switch that allows the digital effects to be routed to CH-1, CH-2, or if in the middle position will supply effect for both channels. The AG 30 is a compact portable motel.

Vox offers a variety of guitar amplifier series and models. All their products come with the VOX Valve Reactor. The Valve Reactor circuit uses a 12AX7 triode vacuum tube together with an actual low-wattage tube power amp circuit, a virtual output transformer and a dummy speaker circuit that simulates the impedance changes of a real speaker. It also reconfigures itself so that its characteristics are the same as the amps it’s modeling (class A, class AB, negative feedback circuit, etc.). This means that all of the nuances of the original amp model including sound, feel, distortion and presence are reproduced accurately.

Winfield amps are all hand-wired using circuit boards and Teflon wire. They come in three different wattages: 5, 18 and 30 watts and you can have it as a head, a 1x12”combo or a 2x10”combo. All three amps come with a 5AR4 tube rectifier and a plug-in solid state rectifier.

Zinky Electronics manufactures high quality electric guitar amplifiers. They offer the Superfly and the Blue Velvet. The Superfly is the world’s first all-tube completely programmable amp. It is 120 watts, has an output of 4,8 or 16 ohms, and is tube driven with a full size spring reverb pan. The Blue Velvet comes in either 25 or 50 watts and has 4 12AX7 tubes, 1 12AT7 tube and 2 EL84 tubes.

ZVEX manufactures only two amplifiers: the Nano Head and the iMPAMP.