Fargen Amplification

"I started Fargen Amplification 7 years ago with the following goals in mind...building great sounding hand wired tube amplifiers for players that are searching for pure tones, vintage vibe & USA quality. Through the years I have developed a line of amplifiers that continue a tradition of timeless design while moving forward and never loosing focus on continuing to improve all aspects of what Fargen delivers." - Ben Fargen

Landry Amps

As a guitar player growing up in the 70's, Bill Landry had a deep appreciation for the electric guitar tones of the 70's into the 80's. As a working musician, he found himself in a never-ending search for the tones he loved from his favorite guitar players. After more than 25 years, he failed to find an amp that could produce all the various tones that he wanted. This led Bill, in 2002, to the conclusion that he would simply have to build it himself...

Louis Electric Amplifier Company

The Louis Electric line of amps delivers a combination of Louis’s experience with more than a little bit of his own soul in the mix. He has created a line of amps that he believes stand up to what he calls the six requirements of Louis Electric Guitar Amplification...

Metropoulos Amplification

This is George Metropoulos' personal outlet for his obsessive nature regarding all aspects of vintage Marshall amps and their tone. The catalyst for this venture was the idea that he could leave his real plexis safely at home and take something to gigs equally great sounding but more easily replaceable if something were to happen. The only problem with this approach was that nothing lived up to the tone, vibe, feel or dynamics of the real plexis....

Morgan Amplification

Joe Morgan is an electrical engineer who started his career working on GPS satellites in the 80's at Rockwell International. An avid guitar player and musician, Joe's love for guitar amplifiers led him on a 10 year quest to discover all the subtle differences in guitar amplifier design and just how these differences effect tone. In this process he realized that the amps he gravitated to had one common element. They all were very touch sensitive and dynamic amplifiers that were as much a part of the player as the guitar is...

Nolatone Ampworks

Nolatone Ampworks hand builds their amplifiers one at a time using ultimate care and attention to detail to create an instrument that will last a lifetime and deliver tone and feel that will allow you to express yourself in ways you may never have thought possible!...

Smith Custom Amps

Smith Custom Amplifiers is a hot new company that is building amps for the  touring musician. Established in 2002 in Montgomery, Al., Sammy Smith, started his company with the Smith CS25R after finding the price of blackface amps becoming increasingly expensive. He felt that musicians should have an affordable alternative to the blackface design, that a gigging musician could find affordable, light, and durable, with tone that surpasses the originals..

3 Monkeys Amps

3 Monkeys was started two years ago by three founding members...Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, Greg Howard (Brads long time tech) and Ossie Ahsen (Blockhead Amps).

"Our desire at 3 Monkeys is to produce an original design with an original sound that has its roots in classic rock, no Dumble, Wreck, Fender, or Marshall clone here. The amp we have developed is a 30 watt four 6v6 head with a unique 6 position voicing switch (which changes both gain structure and resonant peaks) and a great sounding reverb (not too wet)..."

Tone King Amplifier Company

Designer Mark Bartel elevates guitar amplifier design to an art form until itself, with a craft-based approach steeped in creative design, competent engineering know-how, and fine hand craftsmanship. Mark graduated from Clarkson University with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988, and has nearly 30 years of practical experience in design and construction of vacuum tube and solid state analog circuitry. In addition, he has nearly 30 years of experience in fine woodworking, furniture making, and guitar building, and 25 years of experience playing guitar...

TopHat Amplification

Brian Gerhard is Top Hat Amplification. He is the heart and soul of the operation and has been designing and building many of the best sounding amplifiers available for several years. His amps are hand built, one at a time, utilizing only the highest military grade components and the most precise wiring techniques you will see inside an amp.

Tungsten Amps

Chasing tone is in Adam Palow's blood. As a child, he looked for sound and music in nearly everything around him. In his late teens, he stumbled upon a vintage 5 watt, Class A tube amplifier, and it changed his life. He was immediately drawn to the warmth and breakup of that single 6V6 pumping through a miniscule 8" Alnico speaker. That sparked a lifelong obsession and pursuit of good tones, a thirst which has yet to be quenched...

Two-Rock Amplifiers

K & M Analog Designs, LLC, now doing business as Two-Rock amps was founded in 1999 by Bill Krinard and Joe Mloganoski. Both have long histories in music, sound, and electronic design. Their collaboration is driven by their desire to produce the best sounding guitar amplifiers available, and began with listening to, playing and tweaking many of the fine production tube amplifiers of the last 60 years.