“This thing is a RIPPER. No B.S. One channel. One tube-buffered effects loop”: Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections

Butch Walker plays an EVH Striped Series superstrat [left]. On the right, his new signature Divided By 13 tube amp and matching cabinet.

NAMM 2026: The tube amplifier might be driven by a technology that was developed in a bygone era, but that doesn’t mean that the more radical ideas coming out of R&D departments are all digital. Divided by 13 Amplifiers and Butch Walker’s new signature collaboration is proof of that.

In one sense, Walker’s signature guitar amp, the BW 1969 head, which can be paired with Divided by 13’s 2x12F cabinet, is born of old-school tastes.