RAJANI VOD-50 HEAD

Hybrids are everywhere these days: half-petrol, half-electric cars run the roads; smartwatches with analoguestyle aesthetics bridge the chasms between old and new; and you’ll even find plant-made meat between your burger buns. It stands to reason, then, that a hybrid guitar amp might work too. True, the combination of a valve preamp and solid-state output stage makes sense but this is an idea that’s been largely squeezed out due to the everimproving quality of digital modelling amps.

In this context, the Rajani VOD-50 is something of an oddity. Built one at a time in the company’s London workshop, this channel-switching amp – also available as a 1x12 combo –