PORTABLE DIGITAL AMPS

Let’s face it: guitarists love valves. From the minute you first started honking your guitar through a little solid-state practice amp, you’ve dreamed of owning a ‘real’ amp, with glass bottles glowing hot and bursting forth with even harmonic distortion. Well, that been the case for many of us, but in the last decade, modelling and digital technology has continued to improve, to where we are now at a point of difficult debate.

Purists will tell you that there’s no substitute for a valve amp. They’ll probably tell you about their hearing loss and back problems while they do. But, joking aside, the tones produced by digital amps are