BluGuitar just dropped a metal-focused pedalboard amp, and it could be a game-changer

German guitarist and amp designer Thomas Blug is the man behind one of the world’s best pedalboard guitar amps, the BluGuitar Amp1, and now he’s combined that expertise with crushing metal tones - enter the Amp1 Iridium Edition.

Voiced to deliver uncompromising metal tones, the 100W Amp1 Iridium Edition boasts three Nanotube-enhanced overdrive channels: Modern, for enhanced string separation; Classic, with increased mid content; Vintage, for tight, ‘woody’ tones, even with low tunings.

BluGuitar Amp1 Iridium Edition

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Each channel can be comprehensively tweaked via a wide-ranging tone control, which adjusts the midrange quality, while there’s also a high-headroom clean channel.

Other features include an onboard boost and noise gate, plus a recording output with analog speaker sim.

The tones is the demo video above sound pretty damn impressive, we have to say. If the sounds stack up in real life, this could be one of the best amps for metal on the market.

The Amp1 Iridium Edition is available from November 1 for $849 - see BluGuitar for more.

Michael Astley-Brown
Editor-in-Chief, GuitarWorld.com

Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.