History of guitar amplifier

We can find guitar amps everywhere when we go to a live music show. Guitar amps work as an instrument of music got the widely use in different style of music.

As a guitar player, you should learn about the guitar amps niche to familiarize yourself with amplifiers.

At first, you need to know the history of the guitar amps.

It's not a long words, but important. It’s change an age of music.

The first guitar amplifiers were designed to be used for bass or for keyboards .However, other instruments started requiring amps due to the wider range of frequencies, leading to the development of full-range speakers and advancements in guitar amp technology. Low frequencies and higher volumes tax the amp more. Because of this, guitar amps need to be combined with woofer or subwoofer speakers and specially-built CABINETS to house them. Early amps were definitely not well suited for today's high gain, high volume musical demands.

The first electric amps were not made in combination only for the electric guitars in the early 1930s. After that, amps of guitars utilized to amplify the acoustic guitars, during which the craze for Hawaiian music is happening, the electronic amplification became very popular.

Most guitar amps were low in power before the 1950s and that loudspeaker technology was not very well The first Fender guitar amps referred to what we know today as tremolo as vibrato. Then they labeled the guitar vibrato unit as the tremolo bar.

The first electric guitars amplifiers have been used by musicians in 1960s. Later on, electric guitars started to include pre-amp distortion, so that musicians could produce effects and distortion. Today, distortion is an integral part of many musical styles and always makes electric guitar music unique.

Music has changed by consciousness, ambience, fashion, and also with the advance of the instrument.