An amplifier, or amp, is a device that boosts the electrical signal from your guitar to produce sound through speakers. It plays a crucial role in shaping your tone and controlling volume. Amplifiers come in various types, including valve (tube), solid-state, and digital modelling, each offering different sound characteristics. Whether used for practice, recording, or live performance, an amp helps bring your guitar’s voice to life with clarity, power, and personality.
Guitar amps are essential for shaping and amplifying your sound, whether you’re playing electric, acoustic, or bass guitar. They come in various types—valve (tube), solid-state, and digital modelling—each offering different tonal characteristics and features. From compact practice amps to powerful stage-ready combos and heads with matching cabs, this category covers all your amplification needs. We stock a wide range from trusted brands, offering everything from clean tones to all-out distortion, perfect for home practice, recording, or live performance.
A head is the amplifier unit of a guitar rig that contains the electronics responsible for shaping and boosting your guitar’s signal. Unlike combo amps, a head does not include built-in speakers and needs to be connected to a separate speaker cabinet. This setup offers greater flexibility, allowing players to mix and match different heads and cabinets to tailor their tone and volume. Heads come in various types, including valve (tube), solid-state, and modelling, catering to a wide range of sounds and playing styles.
Reverb, short for reverberation, is an essential guitar effect that simulates the natural reflections of sound in a physical space, such as a room, hall, or cathedral. It adds depth, ambiance, and spaciousness to the guitar’s sound by creating a series of discrete echoes that decay over time, mimicking the way sound reverberates in different environments. Reverb pedals offer controls for adjusting parameters such as decay time (the length of the reverb tail), pre-delay (the time between the original signal and the onset of the reverb), and mix (the balance between the dry and reverberated signals). By adjusting these parameters, guitarists can achieve a wide range of reverb effects, from subtle room ambience to lush, expansive reverberation. Reverb is widely used across various music genres, including rock, jazz, ambient, and electronic music, to add depth, dimension, and realism to guitar tones, creating a sense of space and immersion in the sound. Popular reverb pedal models include the Strymon BigSky, Boss RV-6, and Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail.
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Blackstar Debut 50r – 50 Watt Electric Guitar Amplifier With a Power Reduction to 5 Watts 2 Channels – Clean & Overdrive with Patented ISF Tone Control Built in Reverb Effects – Plate & Hall Options Line In For Jamming Along or listing Music Speaker Emulated Line Out For Silent Practice or Recording
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Powerful Stereo Amplification: Delivering 500 Watts of professional-grade power, ideal for various sound reinforcement applications from live events to studio setups. Versatile Configuration: Features 2 channel stereo or bridged output modes for flexible integration into any audio system. Efficient Cooling System: Designed with forced-air cooling t…
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Guitar Valve Combo For playing at home, in recording studio or in small concert halls. Clean Tone to Crunch. Perfect for pedals Reverb analog to valves. Compact size and design using real woods.
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500 Watt Stereo Power Amplifier that's 2U rack-mountable with low noise making it ideal for commercial installations. It has 2 output modes: 2 channel stereo or 1 channel bridged mode. Protection circuits are incorporated for Thermal, Short Circuit and Overload, and the voltage can be changed from 240V to 110V making it suitable for use in many cou…
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