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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Jamie Dickson

“When you switch something on that’s made with valves, it sounds fine to start with, but after 20 or 25 minutes you suddenly notice it sounding better”: How to get the best from your tube amp

Everything you need to know about guitar amps.

As regular readers of this column will know, sometimes we focus on very specific topics and sometimes we meander a bit more freely across the topic of guitar tone. Recently, I picked up the phone to one of the most knowledgeable tonesmiths on the British scene, Dan Coggins.

Dan was the designer behind the highly influential Lovetone effects pedals from the 1990s, and today he’s a frequent collaborator with ThorpyFX and designer of the Gear Of The Year-winning Dinosaural Cogmeister overdrive pedal.

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