Supro harnesses vintage tube tone for affordable 1x8 Blues King combo

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Supro has introduced the Blues King 8 guitar amplifier, a modernized version of the company’s Fifties-era low-wattage combos.

In this case it’s super-low, with the Blues King 8 pumping out one watt of power in a unit designed specifically for home practice and studio situations.

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Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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