Amplifier Manufacturers
If you play electric guitar, you'll need an amp. An amplifier has three main sections, the preamp stage, the amplifier stage, and the speaker; you can get these segments individually or in combination. We have a separate page for each category: If you prefer to search for a manufacturer, the table below shows you amp manufacturers, with columns for the types of equipment the produce:- Cabinets (cabs): speaker systems driven by a separate amplifier
- Combo: combination amplifier system and speaker(s) in a single unit; a good first choice
- Heads: stand-alone amplifiers system to drive cabinets
- Micro: amps rated at 5 watts or less, including headphone amps
- Power: power amplifiers for rack mounted systems
- Pre: preamplifiers for rack mounted systems
- Stacks: matched head/cabinet sets. You can make a stack from a cab and a head; manufacturers marked in the STACK column market mated sets.
| Acoustic Image | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | POWER | |||
| Advance Tube Technology | POWER | PRE | |||||
| Alesis | COMBO | ||||||
| Alessandro | COMBO | ||||||
| Allen Amplification | CABS | COMBO | |||||
| Ampeg | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| B-52 | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | STACKS | |||
| Behringer | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| Brand X | COMBO | ||||||
| Budda | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| Cage | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| Clark | COMBO | ||||||
| Crate | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | STACKS | |||
| C-Tech (the Pocket Rockit) | MICRO | ||||||
| Custom Audio | COMBO | ||||||
| Dean | COMBO | MICRO | |||||
|
Dean Markley |
MICRO | ||||||
| Dr. Z | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | MICRO | STACKS | ||
| Epiphone | COMBO | MICRO | |||||
| Evans | CABS | COMBO | PRE | ||||
| Fender | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | MICRO | |||
| Fishman Transducers | COMBO | ||||||
| Genz Benz | CABS | ||||||
| Gibson | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | MICRO | POWER | ||
| Gorilla | COMBO | ||||||
| Hiwatt | COMBO | ||||||
| Hughes & Kettner | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | STACKS | |||
| Ibanez | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | STACKS | |||
| Kustom | COMBO | ||||||
| Laney | CABS | ||||||
| Line 6 | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| Marshall | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | MICRO | PRE | STACKS | |
| Peavey | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| Pignose | COMBO | ||||||
| PreSonus | PRE | ||||||
|
Randall |
CABS | COMBO | HEADS | POWER | PRE | STACKS | |
|
Rocktron |
CABS | COMBO | PRE | ||||
| Rogue | POWER | PRE | |||||
| Roland | COMBO | ||||||
| Smokey | MICRO | ||||||
| Soldano | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| SWR | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | POWER | PRE | ||
|
Tech 21 |
CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| THD | CABS | HEADS | |||||
| Trace Elliot | COMBO | ||||||
|
Traynor |
CABS | COMBO | |||||
| UltraSound | COMBO | ||||||
| VHT | CABS | COMBO | HEADS | POWER | PRE | ||
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Vox |
CABS | COMBO | HEADS | ||||
| Washburn | COMBO | ||||||
| Yamaha | COMBO | ||||||
| Yorkville | COMBO | POWER |