For me to sit down and tell you the exact amplifier you need for your gigs would be at best ludicrous. The amplifier is an extension of your own personality, your own nervous system. If I could tell you the amp you need, I could probably also tell you what clothes to wear each day. However, there are certain characteristics of amplifiers which render them serviceable to certain types of jobs. So what I can lay on you are some considerations of. experience for when you do get ready to fnake that purchase.

Probably the first two realizations you should come to before you select your own specific range of amplifiers, is the fact that novelty can have a tendency to wear off, so that your purchase should have the foresight of the future — with regards to power, function, and basic sound. The second realization is that an amplifier is not a very good substitute for talent qr skill. When you play a new amp in the store, it may make you sound like a true music freak, maybe even Foxey Jimi, but remember, the sound is usually different than the one you’re used to and it is probably only a matter of weeks before you realize that the sound coming out is still you and your energies. An amplifier, especially guitar amplifiers, is not capable of adding quality to a good signal which does not exist to begin with. These two considerations are probably the easiest to say and the hardest to fully understand when the buyer goes shopping for a guitar amp.