

Amateurs – because we don’t make our livings from music, guitars or amps.

Who are we – A couple of easy going players, ampoholics and engineers. Here is a cranked and slightly modified blackface Bassman played by Amund Maarud in search for some rock and blues tones: Here is a beautifully cranked Pro Reverb and a clean sounding Twin Reverb: What do the vintage Fender amps sound like? Listen for yourself. What do professional artists and techs do to their amps to get that killer Fender tone? We’ll teach you how to make a small amp bigger, a big amp smaller, make a dirty amp clean or to make it growl without any effect pedals. It’s all about breakup, sag, sustain, compression and harmonics in speakers, tubes, transformers and capacitors. We discuss how to turn it into a tone machine for your specific needs. See our amp section – We share information gathered through decades of playing and servicing Fender tube amps. Our Buyer’s guide to vintage Fender amps will be valuable to anyone who is about to purchase a vintage Fender amp. We try to address both the musical and technical aspects of vintage Fender amps. We explain how good maintenance, mods, tubes, speakers and circuitry components affect your tone and how you may shape it to fit your own musical style and preferences. is a source to vintage Fender guitar amps, mostly blackface and silverface models from the 1960s and 1970s.
