RD AMPLIFICATION – HOME OF CUSTOM VALVE GUITAR AMPLIFIERS
YOUR AMPLIFIER IS THE VOICE OF YOUR GUITAR
We love guitars! WE LOVE custom valve guitar amplifiers!
EXPERTLY CRAFTED OVER 30 YEARS FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC
The electric guitar is one of the most influential and inspirational instruments ever created! At its core and in its essential design the electric guitar remains unchallenged and unchanged; body, neck, pickups, strings and some electronic controls. In its multitude of iterations and specifications it remains the same. And we love it that way – But that’s only half your instrument!
Here at RD Amplification we start our quest to build you the best amplifier we can, based on a single core principle and philosophy, that when it comes to the electric guitar, what you hear… what you ACTUALLY HEAR, is a combination of your amplifier and speaker translating the signal from your guitar to the air. Its simple electronic physics, and can be easily demonstrated by the fact that you can plug the same guitar into a variety of amplifiers in combination with different speakers and what you hear is different and unique. It is this sonic effect that drives our passion for creating amplifiers that are as equally inspirational to your music as the guitar itself.
After nearly 30yrs of building custom valve guitar amplifiers we have become finely attuned to not only the tonal characteristics of the amps, but to various speakers as well. And whilst choosing an amplifier and speaker can be as daunting and overwhelming as Alice going down the rabbit hole, and it being very easy to get lost amongst specs, fear not. We are at hand every step of the way to advise you on which of our amplifiers would work best for you and what speakers are suitable partners, for whatever style of music you want to play.
THE LINEUP
DUALIST CUSTOM
The concept behind the DUALIST Custom was to provide something just a little bit different whilst embracing the best of a great tradition of classic guitar amplification.
DUALIST XL
To facilitate the more extreme Heavy Metal and Hard Rock players we have taken our classic DUALIST Custom dual-gain preamp circuit and re-worked it into a hardwired none-switching single-channel version destined to melt your face!
8-BALL CUSTOM
The '8-Ball Custom Reverb' is a straight ahead reverb amp based on the 'Single' mode of our classic DUALIST circuit. Essentially pitched as a straight ahead 'clean' amp for those players who do not require the overdrive from the preamp.
BASS 100
A pure all-valve circuit with some suitable component tweaks for bass EQ in the preamp, and typically employing an output stage utilising either pairs of KT88, 6550 or quad 6L6.