Electric Guitars 101

The Powertone II amp head offers three channels and two separate Master Volumes for setting two different volume levels, Rhythm and Solo, on each channel. The Clean channel offers luscious clean tones, rich open and well defined. The Gain channel has 4 tube stages and its improved dynamics and pressure make this channel the best chords-channel for every blues and rock style.The Ultra-Gain channel goes further than many people think possible. Its 5 tube stages bring you high gain and harmonically rich and singing lead tone while still having excellent chord definition.The completely redesigned 120-Watt power amp produces an incredible amount of push in the Low End, has more headroom and greater transparency. The Powertone II also offers 3 Speaker Damping levels: High, Low and Ultra Low. The Ultra Low damping makes the amp sound incredibly open and powerful. With all these features the Powertone II amp head will give you a superb sound for every music style on every volume level, from not-to-loud small club level to a feel-it-in-your-stomach grand stage level.The Powertone II's simple and intuitive user interface allows you to easily create, control and refine all the tones you've ever desired. From a sparkling, open and very detailed clean tone through a rough and grungy rock tone to a lead tone with an almost unlimited amount of gain, it's all there.

100 watts of all tube tone, in an incredibly rugged, roadworthy amp loaded with features. 3 channels, each with individual preamp, volume, and bright switch controls; parallel, mixable effects loop with channel volume controls, overall power amp master volume, a depth control for bottom end response, illuminated push button channel selectors, and an included 3-function footswitch. Handmade in the long standing Soldano tradition of quality.

The Dallas 50W tube guitar amp head features 6L6 tubes to provide sounds reminiscent of classic American reverb amps that could fill a room with sonic presence. This Dallas amp head leans toward the clean side but moderately overdrives nicely. The all-tube design produces an open 3-D tone for huge-sounding cleans with powerful overdrive and natural-sounding reverb. Across the sound spectrum, it offers sweet highs, solid lows, and modest midrange tones? to bring every detail of your guitar work to life in 3-D.

The Gretsch Executive guitar amp is a dream amp for the vintage sound hound. Voiced to perfectly match Gretsch electric guitars, it features all-tube design, hand point-to-point wiring, spring reverb, and tremolo, and retro styling that perfectly suits its vintage character. The finger-jointed pine cab is covered it 2-tone vinyl and has wheat-color grille cloth. Handmade in the USA.

KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer found his tube amp of choice in the Hughes & Kettner Duotone. In fact, he was so enthused to chance upon an amp so good that he put his name on a Duotone Signature Series model. It now adorns the amp head?s shining blue Plexiglas front panel, alongside his official KISS logo. Duotone delivers to-die-for tone, but takes the one-sound-wonder of vintage amps a significant step further. When it set out to design this modern classic guitar amp head, DuoTone collaborated with an amp-tuning specialist to embrace the pros? most frequently requested modifications. The top four demands are more tone, more attack, a tube-driven effects loop, and a clean channel that merits its name. DuoTone went on to build the first off-the-rack amp to offer all of these special tweaks as standard features: You get supercharged classic rock tones thick enough to slice with fat, dynamic overdrive, a top-drawer clean channel, a tubedriven effects loop, and even a dual master. Hughes & Kettner's tube amps all have distinctive personalities tailored to individual expression. Built for tube purists, each amp head, including the Tommy Thayer Signature Amp is a no-frills, straightforward original. Each packed with quality of components and an aesthetic design. Duotone guitar amps have a no-compromise design that deliver your favorite classic rock sounds. As its name suggests, the Duotone offers two distinct tonal worlds. There's the rough-and-ready overdrive channel that packs a mighty wallop and the clean channel with dynamics galore. Plus, with the benefit of the overdrive channel's boost circuit, you have enormous gain reserves to dial in everything from a touch of grit for classic rock riffing to high gain for singing leads. The Tommy Thayer Duotone amp head delivers tube tone pure and simple

One of the most versatile combo amps yet, the improved Engl Sovereign amp is available here as a 1 x 12 combo. 4 channels of finest Engl tube sounds, switchable via MIDI, won't leave any doubt that you can take the pure tube tone into small clubs or on the bigger stages worldwide. No compromise craftmanship, equipped with Accutronics spring reverb and Celestion speakers stress the top-of-the-line quality. Modern punchy bottom end sounds in a handy format.This sophisticated guitar amp marries the unrivaled tone of all-tube technology to the awesome sound-shaping might of control features powered by state-of-the-art microchip circuitry. This elegant combination puts at your fingertips a vast range of great fundamental tones and an all but inexhaustible reservoir of compelling variations, all of which may be controlled remotely via MIDI.

One of the most versatile combo amps yet, the improved Engl Sovereign Guitar Amp is available here as a 2 x 12 combo. 4 channels of finest Engl tube sounds, switchable via MIDI, won't leave any doubt that you can take the pure tube tone into small clubs or on the bigger stages worldwide. No compromise in craftmanship, it is equipped with Accutronics spring reverb and Celestion speakers for top-of-the-line quality. Modern punchy bottom end sounds in a handy format.This sophisticated guitar amp marries the unrivaled tone of all-tube technology to the awesome sound-shaping might of control features powered by state-of-the-art microchip circuitry. This elegant combination puts at your fingertips a vast range of great fundamental tones and an all but inexhaustible reservoir of compelling variations, all of which may be controlled remotely via MIDI.

The HIWATT Custom 50 features a dual channel preamp with Low and High sensitivity input for each, 50 watts of all tube output, and individual controls for Brilliant / Normal inputs, Bass, Treble, Mid, Presence and Master Volume. Equipped with 2 x EL-34 tubes in the power stage, 4 x ECC-83 tubes in the preamp. Adjustable 4, 8 & 16 ohm output impedance.A look inside the amplifier will reveal point- to-point hand wiring, turret tag boards (no printed circuits), and hand laced wiring harnesses. The power and output transformers are manufactured by Partridge, the original 1970's supplier to the original design sheets. The components and wires are the modern available equivalents of the vintage components, 1-watt carbon resistors, and wound polyester capacitors being used throughout.

The ENGL Invader 100 E 642 Tube Guitar Amp Head features 8 different gain stages in 4 separate channels that include four separate EQs. Powered by 4 EL 34 Tubes the Invader delivers a total amount of 100 watts. The idea behind the Invader is that guitarists need ultimate flexibility and control in any given playing situation. It achieves this by using a special 4 channel layout.Named Channel 1, 2, 3, 4, these channels are able to produce different Overdrive / Gain structures in each one from Crunch to High Gain. Every Overdrive Voicing in the channels is different. In conjunction with the Hi / Lo gain switch, which can be remote controlled and a separate EQ section for each channel, there will be no limits except the guitarist creativity.• Channel 1: Silken Clean to Crispy Crunch • Channel 2: Fat & Bulky Crunch to NU-Rock / Metal Rhythm / Lead • Channel 3: Tight Warm Crunch to Classic Dynamic Rock / Metal • Channel 4: Modern Crunch to Singing Harmonic LeadsThere are three different remote interface ports available on the ENGL Invader amp head: A Serial Amp Control Port accepts the Custom Z-9 Footswitch (optional); use it as a conventional switcher to select channels and two sound-shaping functions directly. Then there's the MIDI In, which accepts the Z-9 for use as a simple MIDI footcontroller or any other MIDI footcontroller. Finally, the guitar amp is equipped with a stereo jack that takes a dual footswitch, allowing you to switch the four channels remotely.

The Hiwatt Custom Tube Amp features the classic Class A design. The amplifier has three 12AX7 preamp tubes for immense gain, Master Volume control, individual gain, Bass, Mid and Treble controls in special design tone network (Setting all tone controls fully anti-clockwise gives no output, dial in exact tone you want, like having three extra volume controls at different frequencies). High and low sensitivity inputs. No FX loops or Dls or other interruptions from your guitar to those sweet sustaining tubes. Powerful enough to drive a 4x12 cabinet, power section includes 2 EL-84 power tubes, for a linear, clear tone that will satisfy even the harshest of tube amp critics! Fitted in a 2x10" speaker enclosure using two special design Fane 75 watt 10" loudspeakers rated at 8 Ohms, nicely tuned for this 20-watt amp. 4, 8 and 16 Ohm impedance selector guarantees compatibility with alternate or additional speaker enclosures. A powerful amplifier solution for playing at room level, in a compact and rugged design.Boasting the classic design that brought Hiwatt to the forefront of amplification, the Classic Series guitar amps feature the point-to-point, military specific design based on Dave Reeves' original amplifiers. Hiwatt Custom amplifiers use only the best quality components, including hand-wound Partridge transformers and marine birch hand-built cabinets.

Recalling the complex tones and harmonics of '50s-era amps, the Original Sewell brings you sweet highs and tight lows that surround a warm midrange. The Original Sewell has a smooth tone that was crafted to give an expressive, vocal quality to lead work. Notes bloom and sustain with rich harmonics enhancing your fundamental notes.

The 1959HW is a handwired reissue of a circa 1967 100W Superlead head. Since 1967 when the JMP (Jim Marshall Products) Plexi panels were introduced, the Superlead head has been the benchmark for all-tube distortion and tight crunch. Tube lineup includes 4 EL34s in the power section and 3 ECC83s in the preamp. True bypass effects loop, 3-band EQ, and presence control.