guitar amplifier
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electronic amplifier for stringed pickup-equipped instruments
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Encyclopedic overview
A collection of guitar amplifier heads, cabinets, and combos.
A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an instrument amplifier designed for use with an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic-electric guitar. An amplifier receives an electric guitar's pickup-generated signal and shapes that signal's tone through a preamplifier and amplifies it through a power amplifier; it is then projected through loudspeakers. When the preamp and power amp circuits are combined with one or more loudspeakers in a single enclosure, it is known as a combo. When the preamp and power amp are housed together for use with an external speaker cabinet, it is known as a head.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “guitar amplifier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.