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Fancy winning yourself a spanking new Orange Dual Terror amp?  Of course you do.  You’re not mad, are you?
All you have to do is pop off to Premier Guitar, answer some easy-peasy questions, fill in your details and you could be plugging this little baby in.
Who wouldn’t want that?
We loved the Tiny Terror and the Dual Terror seems set to be just as good, if not better.  It’s an all valve 30-watter boasting two channels (labelled Fat and Tiny Terror)for a bit more versatility.  Each channel has an independent volume, …

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Not content with their AmpliTube-related giveaway to the end of October, IK Multimedia have extended it until December 31st, ’09.  That’s two more months of freebies from the Amplitube people.
And, as if that weren’t enough, they’ve also upped the giveaway ante by now offering 4 for the price of 1 instead of the 3 for 1 they had been doing.
If you buy one item from a selection of AmpliTube products they’ll give you, for no extra monies, three – that’s three – other AmpliTube products.
There’s a small catch.  You’ll only …

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Been thinking about getting yourself some shiny (or, in the case of software, virtually shiny), new AmpliTube kit? Now’s the time to do it.
Until the end of October, IK MultiMedia (the modelling boffins that give us AmpliTube) are offering a 3 for 1 deal on selected products.
All you need to do is to buy one AmpliTube product from the list below and register it.

StealthPedal
StealthPedal Deluxe
AmpliTube 2
AmpliTube 2 Crossgrade
AmpliTube Fender™
Ampeg® SVX
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™
AmpliTube Metal

Once you do, you can download – completely free – any two of the following:

AmpliTube 2 Crossgrade
Ampeg® SVX
AmpliTube …

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Ahhh, sweet, low-wattage valve tones.
Paul Reed Smith’s efforts to take over the world continue apace with this, the Sweet 16.
We’re talking a 16 watt head powered by 6V6 valves.  It’s a master volume amp with a full treble/middle/bass stack and a built in reverb.  The amps are handwired (albeit to printed circuit boards) in the US.
All pots, switches, jacks, and power tube sockets are chassis-mounted which bodes well for reliability.
Tube-wise, the 6V6s are cathode biased, in push-pull, to near class A.  The preamp tubes are a little unusual.  There are …