These amps were cheaper to produce, more reliable, and much lighter. In the '70s, when everything was even bigger and even louder, new solid-state amplifier designs also appeared. Other notable developments in this time period were pushed forward by Vox, Orange, and Hiwatt in the UK, and Ampeg, Supro (Valco), Gibson, and Epiphone in the US. The biggest changes Marshall made to the circuit were a different tube line-up, using 5881, KT66 or E元4 power tubes as opposed to the 6L6 tubes found in Fender amps.
The first Marshall amp, the JTM45, was closely "inspired" by Fender's 1959 Bassman amplifier, which ended up being better for guitar than bass. The '60s saw the rise of volume ceilings and of Fender's biggest rival, the UK-based Marshall Amplification company.
While not the first guitarist to experiment with this type of distortion, it brought about the strongest public reaction and shifted the amp industry. Overdrive was essentially an accident, and a product of the low-fidelity circuits, not a purposeful design.īut in the '60s, Dave Davies of "The Kinks" experimented with cutting the speaker in his amp to produce a distorted sound. Today, these early tube amplifiers are beloved for not only their clean tones, but the natural harmonically rich overdrive and distortion they produced when cranked - but at the time, these characteristics were seen as unsavory and in an electronics sense, actually meant the amplifiers were poorly designed. Across the pond, British guitar amp companies were starting to take shape - Watkins or WEM amplifiers as well as Selmer amplifiers represented some of the earliest UK-based manufacturers. Leo Fender's "tweed" tolex covered tube-driven amps of the '50s became the go-to guitar amps of the decade in the United States. They all contributed to the dawn of the first commercially successful guitar amps of the early '50s - when Leo Fender build the first Fender Super - a 50 watt combo amp with a pair of 12" speakers, seemingly inspired in part by the Dobro "Twin Speaker Amplifier" that was made 13 years earlier. There were many amp-builders and distributors during this time period, including Dobro, Stromberg Voisinet, Electro String, Audio-Vox, Rickenbacker, and Gibson. Some of the first successful amplifiers were those designed for the Hawaiian lap steel guitar. The first guitar amps from the '20s through the '40s were often no more than modified yet glorified tube radios or public address systems, integrating new electrical technologies such as electrolytic capacitors and rectifier tubes. Amplifier HistoryĪs you would expect, the rise of amplifiers coincided with the rise of the electric guitar.
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