“It has been such a long time coming. I’ve wanted to make a Chapman amp for years”: Rob Chapman is branching out into tube amps and promises buttery cleans and “heavy, chewy, saturated gain”

Rob Chapman of Chapman Guitars tests his new prototype tube amp, which is tweed-covered but Marshall inspired, and designed to be both a pedalboard platform and a high-gain rock/metal amp.

Rob Chapman’s gear empire is expanding with the Chapman Guitars founder announcing that he is launching a tube amp, the Cloudhammer.

A 40-watt all-tube head, finished in tweed and for the moment bearing the Chapman Guitars name, the Cloudhammer was hand-made in Belgium by Benjamin Genot of AmS Amplifiers, whom Chapman befriended the old-fashioned way – after too many drinks after a gear expo. That, as we all know, is often when the best ideas happen.