GAGA - A New Kind of Tube Guitar Amplifier

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Next show: Jan 2012 - Hear GAGA @ NAMM, Anaheim, Booth 5935 Hall B (with Triad Products, Standback, and DCVoltage / P3dals

17 Dec 2011 -- Germantown, MD USA -- Milbert is now shipping the GAGA-90 tube guitar amp. Years in development and having an award-winning pedigree in both demanding mobile and high-end audio, GAGA offers serious advancements in guitar, bass and instrument amplification, including 90 Watts at 12 pounds total weight, Use-Any-Tube Technology(TM), Purest Possible Tube Performance(TM), Blow-Proof Output(TM), Auto-Everything(TM), Universal Power, and many others. Full information at http://milbert.com/gaga
1 Dec 2011 - GAGA begins shipping.

Nov 2011, from email: "...I enjoyed all the subsidiary links... solfeggio, et. al. You guys are scientists and spiritual seekers. Very cool. All the best..."

25 Sep 2011 - GAGA production underway. Shipping soon, backorders first. Watch your email if you joined the list.

25 Sep 2011 -- Milbert announces production of GAGA, a 90 Watt, evenly-balanced 12-pound tube guitar amp in a sturdy, 1/8" aircraft-aluminum "small head" chassis with stainless hardware and removable features. Power is front-panel steppable down to milliwatts. 4 power tube sockets accept 2, 3 or 4 of over 30 types of power tubes, allowing for mix-and-match to achieve any tone desired from classic 4x 6L6 to 4x EL34 and beyond, even way beyond beyond (example: 6550 push and 6V6 + 6K6 pull). Auto-Everything(TM) provides auto-bias, auto-standby, auto-impedance, and Universal Power. Blow-Proof(TM) parallel outputs drive any speaker cabinets via any cables. Bypassable rumble, tone-stack and buffered loop accompany front-panel mute and flip switches. Advanced power supplies ultrasonically maintain energy reserves and greatly extend tube life. P3 Phantom Power for pedals and pickups. Surge suppression, line filtering and active Power Factor Correction allow plug-and-play anywhere on Earth. Limited editions made in USA. http://milbert.com/gaga

It's rare for technologies used in guitar, bass or instrument amplifiers to earn mention in top audio journals. David Berning's ZH-230, a 30-watt amplifier that shares technologies with GAGA, has won Editors Choice Award 2011 and has been called "the anointed new king" in The Absolute Sound Magazine. Previously, Berning's Quadrature Z (also sharing technologies with GAGA) was named Product of the Year by HiFi+ Magazine. GAGA brings to the musical realm something truly fresh and sonically special, and it's not just us saying so. 2011-05

Analog War Cry calls the P3 Phantom Power for Pedals system "a pedal junky's best friend". Among its many firsts, GAGA-50 is also the world's first guitar amp to offer P3 Technology as a standard feature.

Visit us at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California, January, 2010, Booth #5935 in Hall B. We'll be in the booth with Standback and P3 Technology.

David Berning's $30,000 Quadrature Z power amplifier, which is based on the patented ZOTL technology that the Milbert GAGA-50 is also based on, won Hi-Fi+ Magazine's "Power Amplifier of the Year" award for 2009.

Nashville Summer 2009 NAMM Show: The GAGA-50 engineering prototype breezed four days of full power jamming, oblivious to frequent tube changes, dead shorts and purposely opened outputs. Nobody could kill it, accidentally or on purpose.

Milbert and Berning have teamed up again to produce a new kind of guitar amplifier, the GAGA-50, available in 2010. More information forthcoming soon.

Introduced at the winter 2009 NAMM show in Las Vegas, P3 is a unique phantom power system for guitar effects pedals, being produced by The DC Voltage Company. Please see http://p3dals.com for more information.

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