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Bag End

Bag End Loudspeakers, founded in 1976, evolved from a small shop to a leader in high-quality sound systems, thanks to innovations like Time-Align and ELF Technologies. Edward M. Long, an influential figure behind Bag End, collaborated with Ron Wickersham on groundbreaking audio advancements, contributing significantly to audio quality improvement. The company's diverse applications range from studios to sports facilities, emphasizing custom solutions for unique spaces. Bag End's product line includes bass, electric guitar and acoustic guitar speaker cabinets.

Source: Bag End website (13 March 2024)

Matamp

Matamp is a renowned manufacturer, distributor, and supplier of handcrafted valve guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets. With a factory located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Great Britain, Matamp's team of highly skilled technicians has been building amplifiers since 1964. The company takes pride in their rich history and heritage of producing valve amplifiers and providing great sales, support, and after-sales service worldwide. Rather than replicating existing tones, Matamp focuses on creating amplifiers that assist musicians in finding their own unique sound. Their products have played a significant role in shaping the sound of British music, spanning various genres from Jazz to Metal. Matamp offers global customer service and facilitates direct sales or purchases through their selected specialist dealers.

Splawn

Splawn Amplification was founded by Scott Splawn in 2004 in Dallas, North Carolina. Scott had previously been selling guitars & doing repairs since 1996. He studied up on tube amps & repairs before modding his own Marshall amps to give them extra gain. This led to a business modding Marshall amps and eventually to full scale production of Splawn tube amplifiers in 2004. Splawn also offers electric guitars.

Source: Splawn Amplification website (19 July 2023)

Romano Burini

Romano Burini (born 1965) is an Italian guitar maker. Born in Loreto, Ancona into family of craftsmen - his grandfather was a master Cooper who passed on his passion for wood working. The family moved to Germany, where he grew up and became an apprentice engraver and model maker. He worked for the German Mint and won awards for his craftsmanship. In 1991 he returned to Italy to work as a model maker and prototype creator. In his spare time he began to make guitars first for friends and then professionally. He now makes acoustic, electric and bass guitars, custom pickups and custom amplifier cabinets.

Source: Romano Burini website (9 October 2020)

Acoustic (Amps)

Acoustic is an amplifier brand name of Acoustic Control Corporation of Thousand Oaks, California. The company was founded in the late 1960s by Steve Marks and his father - initially working out of a shack on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The company became known for its powerful Acoustic 361 bass stack, Acoustic became a popular bass amp brand in the 1970s and 1980s as larger venues demanded amps with more power. The majority were solid state amplifiers but there were a few tube amps as well. Acoustic Control Corporation went out of business in the 1980s, but returned in 2007.

Source: Acoustic Amplification website (13 May 2022)

Trickfish

Trickfish Amplification was founded in 2014 by Richard Ruse. Ruse has previously worked for  SWR Engineering, KRK Systems and JBL Professional. Ruse was joined by designer Mike Pope and his business partner David Yates who worked on the electrical engineering side. The acoustical team was made up of Ruse and systems Engineer Anthony Fregoso, another ex-employee of JBL Professional. Trickfish specialises in amplifiers. preamps and cabinets for bass players

Source: Trickfish Amplification website (5 May 2022)

Tagus

Tagus solid-state amplifiers and cabinets were made for a couple of years from around 1973 to 1974 by PAS Electronics Ind, in Toronto, Ontario. They had a distinctive blue Tolex covering and were distributed by B&J.

Source: Tagus catalog 1974

Kelt

Kelt Amplification is a French maker of tube amplifiers. Kelt is a one-man operation: each one is hand built with point-to-point wiring. They are so confident in the build quality they offer an unlimited guarantee (except for the tubes & speakers). The cabinets are hand made from solid teak with dovetail joints.

Source: Kelt Amplification website (20 April 2022)

Synergy

Synergy Amps works with both boutique amp builders and popular mass amp builders alike to design their preamp sections  into a compact module, that slides into a compact preamp housing made by Synergy,  This enables guitarists to get the preamp tone of a boutique amp, like a Soldano, Bogner, Diezel etc. at an affordable price (each module is around $400). The modular preamp system was original invented by Bruce Egnator, who then collaborated with Randall on their modular Randal MTS series. The Boutique Amps collective has revived the concept with the Synergy brand name - but this time with more boutique amp brands on board to provide a wider choice of modules. The design means the modules are easily swappable.  Each module is 2 channels, so it can hook up to an existing amps effects loop, giving that amp 2 extra tube channels, and has a silent line out with cab sim for recording studios or to go straight into the mixing board.

Mission Engineering

Mission Engineering was established in 2009 in a garage in Petaluma, California. One of their first products was the Mission SP-1, the first switching expression pedal designed to work with the new generation of digital amps and effects. Since then the company has expanded its product range, with the first programmable multi-expression controller, the first stereo full range active speaker for modeling devices, and other innovative devices for musicians. In 2015 they acquired the Stagecraft company with its factory in St. Louis which now builds speaker and amp cabinets for Mission and many other boutique amp designers. As well as producing expression pedals and speaker cabinets Mission Engineering Services works with other companies (like Line 6, Avid, Eventide, Kemper, Pigtronix, RJM and Mu-Fx) to help them design and manufacture expression pedals, effects pedals, amplifiers, audio interfaces, cables and speakers

Milkman

Milkman Sound amplifiers are hand made in San Francisco. Tim Marcus has been making boutique amps in San Francisco since 2006 and launched Milkman Sound in 2011. As a pedal steel player, Marcus initially designed amplifiers with plenty of headroom for his high output pedal-steel pickups. The Milkman product range has since expanded to include a wide range of designs from low-power amplifiers such as the One Watt Plus to the 700W Bass Half And Half. In 2018 he introduced The Amp - a 50 watt tube amp in portable box the size of a large effects pedal.

Source: Milkman Sound website (14 March 2022)

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