OUR STORY
Henriksen Amplifiers designs and manufactures high quality, analog musical instrument amplifiers in Arvada, CO. We cater to professional level players who care about their sound and need performance-ready equipment.
In 2005, our founder Bud Henriksen began working on an amplifier to fill what he saw as a void in the marketplace for a guitar amplifier designed to meet the needs of jazz guitar players who wanted extremely high quality sound in a portable package.
Made In Arvada, CO
100% Customer Satisfaction
FEATURED DEMO – THE BUD SIX
The Bud SIX is without question the smallest, TRULY GIGABLE guitar amplifier on the market. You won’t believe the tone coming from either your electric or acoustic guitar, or any stringed instrument with a pickup for that matter, not to mention the volume The Bud is capable of cleanly producing.
At 9x9x9 inches, 17 pounds and 120 watts of analog power with a feature set that allows you the versatility to cover almost any kind of gig, this is a MUST HAVE piece of gear for the working musician.
The Blu
The Blu amp is a single channel version of our popular amp, The Bud, and weighs in at an astonishing 12 pounds while maintaining 120 watts of incredible headroom to cover almost any gig with all the features you need.
The Blu has a 5-band graphic EQ, FX loop, reverb, full 48 volt phantom power and a Bluetooth auxiliary input for backing tracks or set break music. There is also a studio-grade balanced XLR line out, a headphone output, and a parallel extension speaker output to make full use of The Blu’s output power.
7 Questions w/ Jocelyn Gould
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7 Questions w/ Michael Bashkin
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7 Questions w/Tim Lerch
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Guitar Stories: Bill Piburn
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7 Questions w/John Knowles
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7 Questions w/Maegen Wells
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7 Questions w/Bob Palmieri
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7 Questions w/Tom Ribbecke
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