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“This poses a risk of serious electric shock”: Blackstar issues urgent product safety recall
By Jonathan Horsley published
If you own the British amp brand's new Debut 100R 1x12 and 2x12 combos, check your serial number now to see if yours is affected

Positive Grid's Spark 2 just got its first-ever discount - get up to 50% offthis AI-enabled guitar amp in the Black Friday sale
By Matt McCracken published
PG's Black Friday sale is in full swing but there's one deal that's got us particularly excited

IK Multimedia teams up with Alex Lifeson for TONEX collection featuring four of his favourite amps
By Jonathan Horsley published
Lifeson promises “dimension, depth, all that stuff” from IK Mutlimedia’s latest signature TONEX release, and if you have a TONEX pedal you can have all this on your 'board

Boss unveils the Katana Mini-X, a portable $149 10W amp with effects, tuner and Bluetooth
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Katana-Mini X has three amp types with alternate voicings for each of them, and there is more volume and depth than you might expect from its 5" speaker

Blackstar unveils St James 100, “world’s lightest” 100W tube amp with both EL34 and 6L6 power tubes
By Jonathan Horsley published
Can't decide between EL34s and 6L6s? Blackstar allows you to choose between them or use them together in this four-channel beast, now available as a 100W head or 2x12 combo

Orianthi and Orange Amps join forces for the White Crush, a 20W solid-state practice-friendly combo
By Jonathan Horsley published
This limited edition practice-friendly 1x8 combo has two-channels, reverb, heaps of gain, cab simulated output and fancy white Tolex just like Orianthi's Rockerverb 50-inspired signature tube amp

Meet the JAMster series, the $42 desktop guitar/bass amp from Harley Benton you can take anywhere
By Jonathan Horsley published
For a super-budget travel and practice option, the 10-watt JAMster series is hard to beat. It has Bluetooth connectivity, a headphones out and can be battery-powered. All for less than $50

“It breaks up in the perfect place”: Supro teams up with Tyler Bryant for signature tube combo
By Jonathan Horsley published
Lots of headroom, lots of mojo, and a whopping bass response, Bryant's new combo is a 1x12 powerhouse “you can be down right rude with”

Positive Grid has jumped the Black Friday gun by offering up to 50% off a range of amps and software in their Black November Sale – including the Spark 40 back to its lowest price ever
By Daryl Robertson published
With everything from the original Spark to the Mini, Go, Live, and Cab included, you'll want to act fast to get your hands on some of the best desktop amps and modelling software around

Kenny Wayne Shepherd on what people get wrong about Dumble amps and why the clones don’t measure up
By Jonathan Horsley published
Shepherd is a long-standing user of Alexander ‘Howard’ Dumble’s amps and was a friend of the late amp guru. Here he discusses amps’ mythical status and salutes the man who made them
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