Are you aware of the relatively rare and not widely used 200w Marshall Major? This was a production amp between 1967 and 1974 (first called the Marshall 200 then the Major starting in 1968) which had four KT88 tubes – giving it 200w of brain-pounding power.

Britain’s Total Guitar mag recently got a redone website, and while it looks cool and probably impresses its advertisers, it’s not yet setting the world on fire with content (but the mag is excellent). Case in point, a post on “Buying Your First Gigging Amp.” The post is literally worthless, though it does seem to [...]

That’s right, me hearties, for the buy-it now price of $430,000 US (300K pounds) you can be the proud owner of an amp you may never want to fire up

Okay, I know it’s Gary Moore playing with Gary Moore’s fingers, but wow! Just phenomenal tone. (Vid below.) The Tiny Terror has gotten a lot of buzz since its intro in 2006, for good reason: It sounds killer. Here’s what Orange says about it:

Recently I had an opportunity to play through an actual Dumble amp via a thegearpage.net member-organized Amp Fest/Tone Fest/whatever you want to call it. It was the first time I’d heard a Dumble, or even a Dumble-style amp, in person, so this is definitely a raw, unschooled, unsophisticated impression.