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Guitar Amps Buyers Guide
As important as buying a good guitar may be, just as much effort should be put into buying guitar amps. The guitar amp is the final component in transferring the sound to the audience and a poor quality amp can compromise even the best of players.
Guitar amps are available for a number of different purposes. You may want one for practice, in which case there are a number of small units available. There are even tiny portable amps which you can attach to your belt as you strut your stuff. However, if you are going to be playing live you need to find out which of the available amps are best suited to your type of music and where you will be playing.
Many of today's guitar amps are suitable for playing smaller venues without having to shell out for top of the range head and cabinet amplifiers. Almost any amp by Marshall will offer a range of tones and the output can be fed through a PA system if extra power is needed. Vacuum tube amps are relatively scarce and expensive when you find one. Manufacturers are now making guitar amps as hybrids combining a tube based per amp and a solid state power amp.
In fact, many guitar amps are now capable of modelling sounds, which means they can produce clean tones and overdriven rock based sounds. More advanced guitar amps have the ability to model and recreate sounds from pretty much any part of guitar history. You may thus find that a good amp will have a range of guitar effects, which when combined with effects pedals can take your music to another level. There is of course a balance between output volume, quality and the number of additional effects, features and functions. Purists would argue that the simpler the circuitry, the more realistic the sound will be. Ultimately it is all a matter of personal preference.
The best way in which to choose a guitar amp is to try them. Take your guitar and any effects pedals to a store and try as many amps as you can. Only by trying as many as possible will you gain an idea as to how they sound and what your potential will be as you play through them. As with trying a guitar, ask someone else to play so that you can listen from an audience level distance. Price will of course have a bearing on your final decision and you should look for robust construction if you are planning on moving the amp from gig to gig, but overall once these factors have been taken into account, your ears should do the choosing for you.
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