Latest about tube amps
“Will appeal to high-gain players without unlimited budgets”: Victory MKX Lunch Box Head review
Victory’s most advanced compact amp to date promises huge tone-potential in a lunchbox-sized package. We’re feeling hungry…
Mesa/Boogie brings back the fire-breathing Triple Rectifier
This limited edition drop puts the custom-order look back in style, presenting 150-watts of legendary high-gain performance – and a sound that shaped '90s rock and metal
Joe Bonamassa test drives Gary Moore’s iconic Soldano amp
Bonamassa bought the historic amp head at auction last year
Leo Fender’s favorite amp, recreated? Fender ’62 Super Amp review
The original, ’62-era Super was said to be Leo Fender's favorite amp. Let’s see if this exacting recreation captures the original magic
Two-Rock’s Studio Overdrive head is a small-but-mighty tube amp that promises both gain and clarity
Kitted out with subtle but useful tone-shaping tools and enough gain to belie its smaller size, the Studio Overdrive is all about the feel it creates
![Butch Walker plays an EVH Striped Series superstrat [left]. On the right, his new signature Divided By 13 tube amp and matching cabinet.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QdVcgiz4RoY9j7NngyDBJh-840-80.jpg.webp)
Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections
Walker's hand-wired head allows players to run either of its EL84 or 6L6 power sections individually, or combine them, and there's a tube-buffered effects loop too
Slash and Magnatone slither into the fray with the Lil’ Viper, a compact but venomous 8-watt combo amp
It features High/Low gain voicings, a 12AX7 preamp tube, and a pair of NOS 6AQ5 power tubes... and Slash reckons it can punch well above its weight
Synergy teams up with Wampler and Friedman to launch its machine-learning power amp
A new Friedman IR-Loaded and Wampler Pedalhead are the first new products to benefit from the new tech
