GREG GERMINO GERMINO AMPLIFICATION
The chances are that if you’ve ever gone in search of vintage Plexi or JTM45-style tones and wanted the best on the market but didn’t actually want to buy vintage, that road led you to Greg Germino’s door. Everyone knows that different players’ quests for the Marshall tone might well express desires for very different sounds. But when you want a new amp that sounds like the real thing circa 1968 or so, a high proportion of players who know their Plexis will tell you to track down a Germino.
mino’s attention to detail – often details that few others even know about – has landed his amps in the backlines of Charlie Starr, Earl Slick, Brad Whitford, Audley Freed, Jimmy Herring and a host of others. Put simply, Greg’s amps are built like the real deal, look like the real deal and, most importantly, sound like the real deal. Why? Because he’s seen inside more real-deal Marshalls from the golden era than just about anyone on the planet other than those who made them in the first place.
Germino was born in Durham, North Carolina, in 1958 and grew up just across the street from the East Campus of renowned Duke University, through which countless classic rock bands would pass on their college-circuit tours of the following two decades. So, if it was The Beatles on that triggered the young enthusiast to start jumping
