Choosing A Basic Headphone Amp

While you can get amp heads and combo heads that include a headphone jack, some people prefer to have a separate guitar headphone amp. Having a pocket amplifier system that works with your headphones allows you to use your guitar anywhere and not worry about the noise. Basic headphone amps for guitars that are small […]

Full Stack or Half Stack

With a half stack you have an amplifier head and a cabinet that is rated to work well with the amp – a great amplifying system. So when do you need to add another cabinet to make a full stack? Some people say never – that all you’ll ever need is one cabinet. In some […]

The Coolest And Most Unique-looking Mini Amps

Mini amps are small, compact, light, and some of the coolest looking guitar amplifiers you can find. They are sometimes really, really, small, and they also seem to come in a lot more different styles than full-sized amplifiers. Along with the benefit of being extra portable and convenient, using a mini-amp instead of a full-sized […]

How To Connect Multiple Cabinets

Once you understand what output impedance means and what to look for, it should be pretty straightforward to connect a single cabinet to your amp head. All you need is the correct speaker wire, and a cabinet that supports equal or more power than your amp. In order to hook up a second speaker, there […]

What Output Impedance Means And What To Look For

When using any guitar amp head it’s important to make sure that the impedance matches the impedance of the speaker you’re using. Most modern amplifier heads are built so that they can send out the correct output impedance but there are still cases where you can blow your speakers or the amp. Although it’s always […]

Lightest And Most Portable Combo Amps

Part of the fun of having a guitar is being able to take your sound with you, either on the road or just out for the night. It’s not always affordable to have a separate combo amp just for taking with you when you go, and so some of these really portable combo amps have […]

Best Tube Amps

Electric Guitar Combo Amps With Tube Technology The original guitar amplifiers were created using vacuum tubes to amplify the signal. These tubes worked by heating up the electrons and deliver a sound that many people believe is unmatched by the digital equivalents being created using solid-state technology today. Although the sound from a tube amplifier […]

Best Mini Amps For Practice

Some people don’t believe in playing with a different amp when you’re just practicing alone, but for those that do, you often only need a smaller version of the power that you’re going to want to use at live shows. Mini amps are low wattage and low weight. A lot of them can run without […]

Best Tube Preamps Under 500 Dollars

When you start to grow your sound equipment collection, you may find you want to have different amp heads for different sounds. For some people, none of the modern amplifier technologies will ever beat the sound that a tube amp makes. Even though tube amps require more maintenance and tend to cost more, tube amplifiers […]

Combo Amps with the Biggest Speakers

Does size matter? In a lot of cases, you’ll find that it does. The biggest speakers on combo amps are made using multiple speakers behind the scenes. These speakers are wired up to act as one big speaker, and from the outside, it looks like as much power as the sound delivers too. If what […]