If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. An amplifier is a vital companion for bringing out the ...

How is it that a tiny guitar amp with origins that date back 76 years is still considered a monster tone machine today? It’s because Fender got so much right with the humble Champ combo from the start ...

Amplifiers that are specially designed for acoustic instruments were a boon when they first arrived on the scene — no more playing instruments capable of great acoustic tone through open-backed ...

1909: Clarence "Leo" Fender is born. The designer, engineer and inventor would found the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, the banner under which he created and produced the first wave ...

NAMM 2014: Fender has released updates to two popular amps, the '65 Deluxe Reverb Head and '57 Deluxe. The amps form part of Fender's Custom series, and are both hand-wired, all-tube amps that ...

Fender has just announced the arrival of the new EC Series Eric Clapton signature guitar amplifiers. The three tweed tube amps - the EC Twinolux, EC Tremolux and EC Vibro-Champ - are Clapton's first ...

Don Randall, the dynamic sales and marketing force behind legendary electric guitar designer Leo Fender’s phenomenal success during his company’s first two decades, has died. He was 91. Randall, one ...