GAGA-50 is a new kind of tube guitar amplifier in which the traditional audio output transformer is obviated by a patented impedance converter that optimally matches output tubes to speakers and enables GAGA-50 to maximally convey the warm, pure tone and feel of tubes. Hysteresis affecting all frequencies, saturations affecting the bass, and parasitics affecting the highs are all eliminated, unleashing emotive amplification that is audible, measurable, and emotionally involving. If you could hear differences among tubes before GAGA-50 will likely redefine what that means to you, and if you couldn't then expect an ear opening.

"...'the sound' of the amp is no longer coupled to the transformers." »

Supersonically powered GAGA-50 is robust, flexible and World Power Ready™. The elimination of all bulky magnetics cuts the weight of the amplifier dramatically. Any common audio output tubes may be plugged in and played immediately, in any combination for desired tonality. A Power-Step™ control allows output volume to be reduced while maintaining full output tube distortion and character. Patented P3 Pedal Power allows GAGA-50 to remotely power effects pedals and active pickups through standard cabling. "There is no genuine musical experience without ecstasy." GAGA-50 faithfully brings musicians closer to their true tone and musical ecstasy.

"...all I can say is WOW, that's a lot of features for five pounds of amp." »

• 5 pounds, literally pinky-weight - great tube tone anywhere
• 50 watts clean power, 85 watts at full output tube distortion
• Pure, warm tube tone - cleaner cleans, dirtier dirties, heightened emotions
• Wide spectral slam, coherence, precision - maximally musical
• Extremely dynamic, rich, full - sustains sustain without droop at any volume
• Lightning quick - no distortion hangover, fully responsive on a per-note basis
  R. G. Keen may have highlighted an universal truth in writing: "What makes for a good opamp versus a bad one? ... The ones that sound good seem to all make a point that they recover from overdrive gracefully." »
• Auto-Everything - literally plug and play:
• Use any type of output tubes, in any combination, without manual biasing
• One output drives any common load, sustains dead-shorts, total opens
• Sophisticated power supplies plug in anywhere and regulate optimally
• Power-Step™ reduces volume, maintains output tube overdrive character
• No more batteries - P3 Pedal Power - never be DOA or landfill another 9volt
• Uncommonly reliable - ten-year tube lifetimes common in our other products
• Fresh ideas, smart features, American made to treasure forever

"...responds like it's not there -- just me, only louder."

GAGA-50 provides the ultimate in tone control: Play different tubes for different tones. Escape 'matched pairs' or even matching types - set tone using whatever tubes you like, in whatever combination. Never futz with bias again yet enjoy automatically optimized performance every time. Gain immediate and full control over what the louder part of your instrument sounds like. Get back to basics: reliability, purity, elegance, and total tube warmth, feel and tone -- a great meal from best ingredients.

"Just as audiophile product designers can learn from us music guys, it's time for vice-versa." --Howard Davis of Electro-Harmonix »

How GAGA-50 will help you sound your best:

Thoroughly unique among guitar amps, GAGA-50 is a new kind of guitar amplifier, not a variation of what has been done before. Feather-weight, powerful, elegant, and unusually flexible, patented GAGA-50 maximizes pure tube tone and response, heightens musical ecstasy, and brings musicians closer to their true tone. Smart features fresh to the guitar world provide real-world advantages for everyone.

• Easily and completely change "the sound" — GAGA-50 accepts and auto-biases any common octal audio output tubes, in any combination. Forget "matched" pairs, metering, tweaking or tedious adjustments —just plug and play, literally, with unprecedented control over the louder part of your instrument. "The...technology is both complex and elegant. The auto-bias circuit alone is a technical tour de force." »
• Much less weight — 85 watt all-tube GAGA-50 is lighter than most guitars. Bring your own powerful, versatile and toneful amp anywhere...sound great, reliably...and actually leave the gig on time.
• No more batteries — Because GAGA-50 includes a complete system of P3 Technology and Power Chain cables, you don't need 9-volt batteries or hazardous and noisy AC power for a "DC" brick up at your pedalboard. This is the end to battery and pedal power fiascos — and talk about "green" technology: never land-fill another 9-volt battery.
• Start with purity — Faithful, phase coherent, all-tube, pure power amplification across the audible spectrum. Why is this desirable? Many quotes uniformly implore 'start with purity':   Clean Tone = Wide Spectrum = Musically Rich. This is exactly the same old obvious truth that great meals are best made from pure ingredients. The resulting pure tone is musical, natural and emotionally involving. Performance and measurement support these claims:

• "I'm more impressed seeing and hearing your products in person than I was when I first ran across them, and I was very impressed then! Now I'm over the top. I feel like I'm at the beginning of something very big. Put me down as an endorser for everything--I'm in! If there's anything I can do to help let me know. Congratulations on having some of the most innovatively thought out products around." --Skip Dorsey, guitarist (Justin Timberlake), May 2010
• "Just played your GAGA50 at NAMM today. WOW!!! what an amp. What a GREAT sound. Please let me know when it's ready for sale. I want one. ...No bull, I was REALLY impressed. I love people that think outside of the normal box." --Perry Robertson, guitarist, Supervising Sound Editor and co-owner of Ear Candy Post ("UP IN THE AIR", "JUNO", "HALLOWEEN", "RAMBO"), Jan 2010 ("Without deviation from the normal, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa, 4:30)
• "GAGA is fantastic. It reacts to what you put in -- totally dynamic. I can totally dig in and then go right to mellow. This is how rock is supposed to sound, smooth as glass, flowing like water, rich like cognac... I love how the tonal color changes so much and so easily, just by how I play... It's every guitarist's dream to have one knob, the guitar's volume knob, that controls the sound, and not be monkeying around back at the amp. This amp does that. I set it up to where I want to be, my general sweet spot, and then do everything --distortion, purity, whatever-- right from the guitar. The amp, it almost feels like it's not there. It's just me, louder." --Ricky Parish (Blues Gypsys), Jan 2010
• "...bite, growl and edge, but the notes are clear and solid...it's so light, where does all that tone come from?" --Kevin Delmolino, bassist, Friends With You tribute to John Denver, Weinberg Center, May 2010 »
• Tremendous, taught lows — Coherent low frequencies give solid impact and powerful slam that extends all the way down without flub.
  
• Luscious tube warmth — Mids are warm and tubey but do not clutter up to require "scoop" or control twiddling for great tone.
  
• Harshless highs — Highs are wickedly fast, airy, natural and alive.
  
• No "loose ends" that are unterminated windings electrically flopping around, causing sonic mayhem inside traditional audio output transformers. See Luke Manley's comments: "Multiple output taps [present in audio output transformers as the ubiquitous 4, 8 and 16 Ohms] are inherently a serious compromise in performance. Inactive winding-segments are inevitable in a tapped transformer and result in additional leakage inductance that affects high-frequency response." GAGA-50 completely avoids this.
• Elegantly simple &mdash Great tone and reliability. Few, big knobs with obvious, single purpose control. Auto-Everything. One output for everything (not 4, 8, or 16). Plug and play. No nonsense, nothing to goof up or set wrong.
• Auto output — Drive any common cabinet or speaker combination, just plug it in. Blow-proof output sustains direct shorts or total opens. GAGA-50 is robust.
• No distortion hangover — Instant, per-note response in the midst of any amount of overload, even severe output tube crunch. When you stop pushing GAGA-50 it immediately stops being pushed and the sound never becomes bewildered or "folds back over on itself". GAGA-50 is made to provide continuously solid response and power, with smooth, rich overload and distortion when so driven, without fading off or collapsing: "lightning fast power without inertia, as responsive as no amp at all."

"Disarmingly weightless and flexible, GAGA-50 couples uncommon speed, accuracy and detail with glorious tube warmth and musicality to bring you closer to your true tone, however you play it."