All items tagged with guitar amplifier (36)

Gibson Returns to Guitar Amplifiers with New Falcon Combos

January 16, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Gibson Returns to Guitar Amplifiers with New Falcon Combos

Gibson continues its remarkable journey to rebuild the company, leveraging its North-American resources to create a new generation of unique products that speak to all those who admire its original products. Now, it announced the new Gibson Falcon Amplifiers, two low-wattage, compact tube combos that reimagine vintage tones for the modern player. The two new amplifiers are the work of Randall Smith, the founder of Mesa Boogie, and his Gibson Amps Design Team in Petaluma, CA.

B&C Speakers Finalizes Eminence Acquisition in the US and China

September 11, 2023 by Joao Martins

B&C Speakers Finalizes Eminence Acquisition in the US and China

B&C Speakers, one of the leading loudspeaker manufacturers for professional audio applications, based in Florence, Italy, announced that it has acquired 100% of Kentucky-based Eminence Speaker, LLC, the manufacturer of professional audio and guitar amplification loudspeakers, and its manufacturing facilities in Dongguan, China. According to B&C Speakers' CEO Lorenzo Coppini, this acquisition will strengthen the company's global reach, while "creating an opportunity to relaunch and enhance an iconic American brand."

Neutrik Announces New and Improved silentPLUG Instrument Jack

June 26, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Neutrik Announces New and Improved silentPLUG Instrument Jack

The original Neutrik silentPLUG was one of those ideas that immediately captivated all musical instrument cable manufacturers, and obviously the electric guitar players. The silentPLUG automatically mutes (shorts) an instrument (guitar) cable signal to avoid pops and squeals when changing the instruments under load. The successful concept has now received its third ever update, hermetically sealed and with an upgraded housing.

audioXpress May 2023. Tubes, Amplifiers, and Audio Electronics!

April 11, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress May 2023. Tubes, Amplifiers, and Audio Electronics!

In this Glass Audio special issue, Menno van der Veen brings us his latest Vanderveen TRANS-PP80 Valve Amplifier, Tom Perazella remakes a famous (Z)OTL amplifier with 300Bs, and Peter Dieleman debunks recurring myths in tube circuit designs. Stuart Yaniger reviews the Hypex NCORE NCx500 amplifier module, while Burkhard Vogel expands his article on Vintage Op-Amp Noise Simulations, and Bruce E. Gillingham concludes its unique MB1 Monoblock Power Amplifier with Precision Bias Control.

New Marshall Group Brings Together Marshall Amplification and Zound Industries

March 30, 2023 by Joao Martins

New Marshall Group Brings Together Marshall Amplification and Zound Industries

The legendary guitar amplification company Marshall Amplification is merging with Zound Industries, the company that created the highly successful consumer electronics products under the licensed Marshall brand. Under the terms of the deal, Zound Industries will acquire Marshall Amplification and the Marshall family will become the largest shareholder of the newly formed Marshall Group with Terry and Victoria Marshall joining the Board of Directors.

Celestion Hempback Guitar Speaker Now Available

January 24, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Hempback Guitar Speaker Now Available

Announced in 2021 at the virtual edition of the NAMM Show, Celestion confirmed that this highly anticipated guitar speaker particularly well-suited to American-voiced amps is now available at retailers worldwide. Combining a hemp cone specifically chosen for its tonal character and a medium-weight ceramic magnet, the G12M-50 Hempback represents an exciting new development in Celestion’s never-ending pursuit of tone.

Kemper Kone NEO Speakers Custom Made By Celestion

August 19, 2022 by Joao Martins

Kemper Kone NEO Speakers Custom Made By Celestion

Kemper announced availability of a new Kemper Kone NEO replacement speaker for its 12" guitar cabinets. This is the same speaker manufactured for the German company by Celestion and used in the Kemper Kabinets, now with a new lightweight neodymium magnet. Also available for a wider range of cabinet designs, these speakers were designed for guitar tone monitoring with a choice of 19 classic guitar speaker imprints activated by Kemper Profile PowerRacks and PowerHeads.

Tube Amp Doctor Introduces New TAD 6V6GT-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes

August 4, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Tube Amp Doctor Introduces New TAD 6V6GT-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes

With the entirely new TAD 6V6GT-STR REDBASE, German company Tube Amp Doctor Musikhandels GmbH introduced a new family member to their REDBASE high quality premium tube series. An ideal tube for Fender Deluxe Tweed 5E3 or Blackface Princeton Reverb guitar amps, single ended Class A amps like the Fender Tweed Champ, Vibro Champ, Fender Champion 600 or the Univalve. As the company explains, many boutique amp builders have already embraced the TAD 6V6GT-STR REDBASE and the company is ready to ship worldwide!

Celestion Alnico Gold Now Available as a Dynamic Speaker Response

February 1, 2022 by Joao Martins

Celestion Alnico Gold Now Available as a Dynamic Speaker Response

Celestion announced that its Alnico Gold guitar loudspeakers is now available as a Dynamic Speaker Response (DSR,) the next-generation digital speaker responses that capture the sound and feel of the speaker’s dynamic, non-linear responses for even more tonal detail. All Celestion DSRs are designed especially for use with SpeakerMix Pro, the self-contained studio-grade DAW plug-in dedicated to bringing ground-breaking levels of detail and realism to guitar and bass speaker tone.

Tube Amp Doctor Announces New EL34-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes

October 11, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Tube Amp Doctor Announces New EL34-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes

Following on the introduction earlier in 2021 of the 6L6GCM-STR, the first model from an all-new high quality premium tube series named REDBASE from Tube Amp Doctor (TAD), the German company now announced the new TAD EL34-STR REDBASE, which can be used for any EL-34 application in guitar amplifiers and also hifi tube designs instead of 6CA7 and KT77 tubes. All tubes in TAD’s REDBASE family are manufactured on a new exclusive production facility.

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