The Fender room had a few new additions to complement the usual line of high quality amplifiers.  It seems the folks in Corona, CA have been busy with some new custom hand wired reissues and a few bass amps.

Joe Kelemen has been in the amp building business since 1994, starting out with the original “JoMama” line of amplifiers. Since then Mr. Kelemen has been hard at work on a new line of amplifiers under the “Kelemen” name, the resulting amps are the hand wired marvels know as: The Roadrunner and The Raven.

The Guitar Center Vintage Collection room was divided into two sections: American Vintage and International Vintage. On the American side we have some Tweed, Silver Face, and Tolex Fenders, Gibson, Gretsch, a Silvertone (I believe it is a 1482), and a Diaz head. The Vibroverb and Vibrolux Fenders were especially nice. The amps were in near perfect condition, and reminded me that the classics will never go out of style.

The Egnater room was showing their well-rounded line-up of amps with the Rebel 20 head and cabs, Rebel 30 head and cab, the Renegade 50 head or cab, and the flagship Tourmaster. There was also a new addition to the already versatile Egnater line up – the 15-watt Tweaker.

The Wizard Amplifiers room might be my winner for best tone of the show – the tone was something else altogether and the best part is these amps are made by my Canadian brethren. Wizard was showing their Vintage Classic and Modern Classic Amplifiers and three different 4 x 12 cab styles (straight, slant and tweed covered). Steve Segal from Wizard Amps ran through a demo of the Modern Classic (see the video) and gave me the rundown on Wizard Amps:

Satellite Amplifiers has a simple design philosophy – no gimmicks.  The amps are all handmade in San Diego, CA and carry an impressive list of artists who swear by them including: Social Distortion, The Supersuckers, The Descendents, and The Mighty Mighty Boss Tones to name a few. The concept is – you plug your guitar in and adjust the volume till your happy or your face has melted.

The Jaguar Amps room was yet another highlight at this years Amp Show. Jaguar was showing they very solid line up and introduced me to a new model - The Jaguar 7.

My first stop on my tour of the 2009 LA Amp Show was the 65 Amps room. Last year I had made the mistake of hitting this room toward the end of my day, and it was packed! So this year I decided to play it safe and see what they were up to right when the clock struck 10 a.m.