About Us

Twister amps was founded by Jade Lowrey in a small town outside Dayton Ohio in the spring
of 2003. A guitar player by aspiration, a machinist by trade, and an electronic, and
mechanical tinkerer at heart. Jade started building simple electronic circuits around the age
of 8 in the local 4H club. While the other kids were raising rabbits, Jade was building
electronic projects to take to the county fair.

Fast forward many years, and Jade found himself repairing, and tweaking most of the tube
amps of many of the top local players in the Dayton area. After countless repairs, and mods
on every type of tube gear possible Jade noticed the same problems, and complaints about
the gear that the local musicians currently owned, and set out to see what he could do about
"Building a better mouse trap".

The first Twister amps were faithful reproductions of the classic 1959 tweed Bassman.
Twister still offers these amps as the F1 series, and is one of our most popular models to
date.

Although the Twister approach was not to alter the original amps signature circuit dramaticly,
there were small but significant alterations done for the sake of reliability, and bringing the
amps power supply filter capacity up to a more suitable level for use with todays higher output
guitar pickups without losing the characteristic sound of the amp.

The success of the F1 led to the introduction of the F2. This amp was not a clone of any
production amp that had come before, yet was loosely based on a famous 18 watt British
amp.

At this time, Jade was building amps in a very expensive way. Buying parts in extremely
small quantities, and in may cases one part at a time. Because of this, the first Twister amps
were priced noticeably higher than they are today.

Starting around 2006, work began on two new amps that would eventually become the F3,
and F4. Also around this time Jade started buying parts in bulk which cut costs considerably,
and we've passed the savings on to you.

Amp sales have steadily grown, and we appreciate your business, and your passion for great
tone. We're proud to have you as part of the Twister Family.

Twister Amps is still a small company, building one amp at a time, with the same passion that
we started with. We hope we can serve you, and help you find the perfect tone that you've
been searching for.

Does your Boogie have one of
these? If so, it's one of the many
that was modified for adjustable
bias by us.
(Hey.... that rhymes!)