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Atomic Space Tone Guitar Amp
By James Grahame
It's time to have some fun with tweed-covered vacuum tubes! The Atomic Space Tone is a $1775 tube-based handmade guitar amp from the Swart Amplifier Company. Cary Miller just posted an enjoyable review of this beautiful device on Electric Guitar Review:
"This amp was absolutely incredible (I'm trying to work out a deal on one before I have to send the thing back!) and the man who makes them, Michael Swart, is a one man show, building these beauties right in his house as far as I can tell.
When I first stumbled onto Michael Swart’s handsome tweed Atomic Space Tone tube amp, via the Swart Amplifier Co’s website, I may have been instantly struck by the retro-cool look of his handiwork, but I had no inclination that I was gazing upon one of the best sounding tube amplifiers I was ever likely to play.
In fact, as a dyed in the wool “tube freak” it’s almost embarrassing to admit it, but until I got the Atomic Space Tone in for review I apparently had no real idea of just how good a tube amp could sound..."
