Laney Amplification

Laney Amplification officially began its career on September 1st, 1967. As a bassist playing the local circuits with the likes of Robert Plant and John Bonham, Lyndon Laney decided to turn his hand to building amplifiers for friends in his parent's garden shed. Some of Lyndon's first customers were local Birmingham-based guitar players such as Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath who remains loyal to Laney to this day. Some of the first Laney amplifiers ever built are still around and in use.The late 1960s/early 1970s range consisted of a small but dedicated amount of amplifiers, with the original LA100BL all-valve model being the choice of many players wanting a more 'heavy metal' guitar sound than other popular manufacturers were offering. KLIPP amps from the 70s are fast becoming sought after by those in the USA vintage market, offering excellent versatility and durability.In the 1980s Laney was at the forefront of amp design when it came to 'Hot Rodded' valve amplification. A line called "AOR", short for Advanced Overdrive Response, retained a natural valve tone while introducing an extra stage of preamp gain. Where amplifiers from other competitors like Marshall were being modified after purchase, Laney offered this feature from new.Throughout the 1990s Laney continued to built on its reputation for producing innovations and by the middle of the decade had released products such as the VC30 (a retro-style Class A valve combo reminicent of the famous Vox AC30, but with more features), the VC50/VC100 combos with two channels, each with a separate boost for adding more gain and volume effectively offering a player four different sounds, and the single channel GH50L/GH100L stacks which are among the best-selling models ever made by the company. Also introduced in this period was the Tube Fusion series - combining solid state power amplification with valve pre-amplication and also incorporating DSP elements to add modulation and delay effects in one package. ***This is a fan site!***