AS MODERN GUITARISTS lean toward digital solutions in their quest for optimal amp tone, many tube-amp makers are redefining this 100-year-old technology to suit current-day demands. To that end, acclaimed Nashville-based brand 3rd Power offers up its Clean Sink MkII as the optimal, gigable, classic-clean amp, with stealth-like versatility for the 21st century.
A former touring and recording guitarist, 3rd Power’s founder and head designer Dylana Nova Scott has earned a stellar reputation for thinking outside the box to pack unprecedented versatility into tube amps that otherwise follow rather classic templates. The company’s Kitchen Sink 6VEL, for example, seeks to run the gamut of American and British clean-to-dirty tones via a control panel far less dizzying than those of many foot-switchable, multi-channel amps. Likewise, the company’s now-deleted Dreamweaver and Dual Citizen straddled both side of
