Part 1 If you’re not familiar with the name Jeff Bober, you at least should be familiar with Budda amps. Now owned by Peavey, Budda was co-founded by Jeff in 1995 and he also was the company’s chief amp designer. In other words, he was the man behind the tone. Since parting ways with Peavey, [...]

This should really be called “decent” vid/audio because while I guess the Premier Guitar vids are better than nothing, sometimes (many times) when it comes to audio quality – really hearing what something sounds like – they are worse than nothing. But this isn’t a beeyach session. I was just stoked to find some audio [...]

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.

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.

Yesterday I sold an amp to a fellow New Jerseyan, and the designated meeting place was the parking lot of the Oxford Valley, Pa. Guitar Center. I admit it was risky getting paid for an amp and walking straight into a music retailer, but I needed new strings….