Suhr Amplifiers

Suhr Guitars are an American company that makes some of the highest quality electric guitars available today. Recently, they've branched out into another area that owner John Suhr is obsessed with: amplifiers. Surprising to many, John designs, modifies, and builds amplifiers that are amongst the very best and the most highly sought-after in the world.

John Suhr Amplifiers Badger 18-Watt Combo View

The Badger has its very own tonality with a very broad range of sounds covering a wide spectrum of clean to overdriven tones typically not found in amps of this class. This new little beast of an amp also offers unmatched flexibility with a defeat-able Drive control (pseudo master volume), the defeat-able Power Scaling feature for great cranked amp tones at low volume levels, and a tube-buffered effects loop.

The Badger can operate in 3 distinct modes for a variety of musical situations. The first is the non-master-volume mode. When the Drive and Power knobs on the far left of the front panel are turned all the way up, they are out of the circuit. This means the Gain control on the far right becomes the volume control. The EQ section of Treble, Middle, and Bass act as normal.

The second mode of the Badger kicks in once you bring the Drive control into the circuit. The Drive controls the amount of signal being sent into the power section, which in turn controls the volume level. The Gain knob now acts as a preamp gain control. This mode is the familiar "master volume" setting on virtually all modern guitar amps being produced out there today.

The third mode engages the unique and extremely effective Power Scaling feature. In this mode, the Drive control becomes like a secondary gain control and the Power knob controls the overall volume. With careful balancing of the settings of the Drive and Power control knobs, you can get power tube overdrive from moderate to bedroom volume levels with a full transparent tone without the squashed compression artifacts of most attenuators and load boxes. With the Badger, you now have total control over your tone and volume from the clubs to churches to garage rehearsals to home recording to late-night practicing in your bedroom.

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John Suhr Amplifiers Badger 18-Watt Head View

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John Suhr Amplifiers Badger 30-Watt Combo View

The Badger 30 is more than simply a more powerful version of the extremely popular Badger 18. Featuring EL34 power tubes, a 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speaker, a larger output transformer and a tweaked preamp voicing to better match the tubes and the tranny, the Badger 30 not only has more power and headroom than the Badger 18, it has more aggressive and pronounced midrange that is punchier with a tighter and more focused lows.

Although called the Badger 30, this handsome little beast puts out 38 watts and has enough power to cut through a dense stage mix and handle medium-sized clubs and similar size venues such as a church. In fact, the Badger amps have become very popular with church worship bands and the Badger 30 is perfect for those large services with an audience of 300 to as many as a thousand.

Whatever size the venue, the Badger 30 has the headroom and the power to be heard loud and clear while retaining the high quality tonal characteristics that has made the Badger 18 amp the choice of such seasoned pros as Mike Landau, Peter Thorn, Walter Becker, Boz Scaggs, John Shanks and many others.

Try the Badger 30 if you need more power but still want to retain the lively feel and lush tonal characteristics of a smaller cathode-biased all-tube amp. You will find that the Badger 30 is the perfect bridge between a low power amp like our Badger 18 and the powerful 50 and 100 watt amplifiers.

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John Suhr Amplifiers Badger 30-Watt Head View

The Badger 30 is more than simply a more powerful version of the extremely popular Badger 18. Featuring EL34 power tubes, a larger output transformer and a tweaked preamp voicing to better match the tubes and the tranny, the Badger 30 not only has more power and headroom than the Badger 18, it has more aggressive and pronounced midrange that is punchier with a tighter and more focused lows.

Although called the Badger 30, this handsome little beast puts out 38 watts and has enough power to cut through a dense stage mix and handle medium-sized clubs and similar size venues such as a church. In fact, the Badger amps have become very popular with church worship bands and the Badger 30 is perfect for those large services with an audience of 300 to as many as a thousand.

Whatever size the venue, the Badger 30 has the headroom and the power to be heard loud and clear while retaining the high quality tonal characteristics that has made the Badger 18 amp the choice of such seasoned pros as Mike Landau, Peter Thorn, Walter Becker, Boz Scaggs, John Shanks and many others.

Try the Badger 30 if you need more power but still want to retain the lively feel and lush tonal characteristics of a smaller cathode-biased all-tube amp. You will find that the Badger 30 is the perfect bridge between a low power amp like our Badger 18 and the powerful 50 and 100 watt amplifiers.

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