solid state amplifiers

VESTER

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Vester was a brandname used by the Samuel Music Company (Midco International) of Effingham, Illinois for their range of Korean made guitars.
The Vester brand started in 1990 following the super strat boom of the late 1980s. 

LOUD Technologies

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LOUD Technologies Inc. is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of professional audio and music products.

ACME Musical Instrument Company

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ACME Musical Instrument Co., LTD. is a musical instrument accesory manufacturer. Their range includes digital tuners, instument pickups and amplifiers.

ORANGE Micro Crush

Tiny 3 Watt solid state practice amplifier. It has a built-in tuner, an overdrive function, volume and tone controls. Has Headphone output. Can be powered by a 9 Volt battery or DC power supply.

ORANGE Crush PiX

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The Crush Amps are Orange's range of solid state practice or small venue amps. These amplifiers are not made in England.

The range of Orange Crush amplifiers extends from the Crush PiX CR12L through to the new 100 watt CR100 BXT, with a total of eight models. These amps incorporate the styling typical of Orange amplifiers: genuine Orange grille cloth, miniature Orange crest finish, signature Orange picture frame edging, exterior beading and the unique hieroglyphic easy to follow symbols.

The Crush amplifier range was updated in summer 2009, the main changes are:

  • More power within the same size frames for example the CR10 is now CR12L with two extra watts of power, there’s five extra watts on four of the models so the CR15 is now CR20L, CR15R now CR20LDX, CR30R now CR35LDX, CR20B now CR25BX and the CR35B gets 15 watts of extra punch and is now the CR50BXT.
  • New built in guitar tuner and integrated digital F/X with choice of sixteen sounds on the CR20LDX and CR35LDX models
  • CR50 BXT upwards have Aux input for MP3/CD for jamming along with recordings
  • New CR100 BXT with 100 Watts RMS, class D amplifier, 15” speaker, tuner and MP3 input.

Ruby Amp in a Magic 8-ball

Ruby Practice guitar amp housed in a magic 8 ball

The Ruby Amp is a great little battery powered solidstate practice amp. The design is based on the Little Gem design which in turn comes from the Smokey Amp designed by Dave Stork on www.blueguitar.org. The design uses relatively few components and is a good DIY project. Cigar box guitar maker J.K. built a Ruby Amp but found himself hunting for a suitable enclosure for it.

WEM - Watkins Electric Music

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Watkins Electric Music (WEM) is a British company founded in 1949 by Charlie Watkins and his brother Reg. WEM started as a record shop in Tooting Market, London, later moving to a small shop in Balham where the brothers began selling guitars and accordions.

Univox

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In the early 1960s the Unicord Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic transformers purchased the Amplifier Corporation of America of Westbury, New York. They began marketing a line of amplifiers under the brand name of Univox. The company was purchased by Gulf + Western in 1967. Guitar making operations moved to Japan in 1975 where they continued making guitars until 1982.

Bible amplifier

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 A 9V battery powered practise amplifier housed in a copy of the bible.

Via: Flickr battery powered bible amp

Make a cracker box amplifier

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This is a sample project from MAKE magazine, which shows you how to build a cracker box guitar amplifier for around $5 . It only shows the first few pages of the project, but it gives the schematic for the circuit and you should be able to work out how to finish it yourself.

Make a wooden practice amp

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This is a photo gallery of a project to build a practice amp out of a solid block of quilted maple. Every part of it is hand crafted, he even makes the control knobs on a lathe.

MARSHALL MS-2

The Marshall MS-2 is a fun mini amp, made in Korea or Vietnam. It has classic Marshall looks with the Marshall knobs, grille cloth and logo.

ROCKWOOD

SUNN

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Oregon-based Sunn Musical Equipment Company was formed in 1965 to provide rock and roll musicians with loud, roadworthy amplification. Sunn amps were used by such '60s bands as Mountain, The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

UNKNOWN

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This is a category for all items that have not yet been assigned a proper brand name.