efore Fender made guitars they made amplifiers, with a heritage stretching all the way back to the ‘Woody’ designs of 1946 and even further, if you count the amps Leo made under the K&F brand during his short partnership with Clayton ‘Doc’ Kauffman. Ever since, the company that can arguably claim to have invented the first proper guitar amplifier has continued to innovate, not just with valves, but solid state and digital technologies too. Fender’s first modelling amp, the Cybertwin, wowed everyone when it appeared out of the blue in 2001, and their ongoing heavy investment in digital has paid off with other successes like
