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RAISING THE TONE That Amp Has Class

“This configuration will produce pleasant harmonics/distortion – an effect regularly exploited”

With his head currently buried in writing a new guitar book, editor, Jamie Dickson, is passing this issue’s Raising The Tone baton to our guest writer Dan Coggins as he brings us up to speed on some of the fundamental differences between amp class types. An electronics engineer by profession, Dan Coggins began his career in the music industry during the mid-90s as the circuit designer for stompbox legends readers, Dan is also the voice of this issue’s Pickup Lines, on page 142, where he talks about ‘transparency’ in relation to guitar effects. And so, over to you, Dan…

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