“That thing is unbelievable. It’s one of the most impressive new amps I’ve tried”: Misha Mansoor has a ton of amps. But one new design has blown him away

Misha Mansoor with his signature Jackson guitar in a studio setting.

Amp Week 2026: Misha Mansoor knows tone. With Periphery, he took djent (genre or not) into new realms of high-gain precision via painstakingly dialed Axe-Fx presets. His signature amp with Peavey, the Invective, was designed to be the greatest 5150 amp on the planet. Then there’s that industry-standard amp booster he designed, the Horizon Devices Precision Drive. Oh, and, ya know, his signature Neural DSP plugin.

Anyway, the point is: when Misha talks tone, we listen. In a new chat with GW, he revealed there’s one amp in particular that has taken his breath away recently. Which is, in itself, a big deal, given he’s played just about every permutation of high-gain head and realized just how many are really quite similar to each other…