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    SUPRO BLUES KING 8

    Feb 07, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS HUW PRICE

    Last year’s Supro Blues King 12 was a reasonably-priced tone monster and a potential Blues Junior killer, but 15-watts can still be too much amplifier for some scenarios. Enter its smaller sibling, the similarly mid-century styled Blues King 8.

    There are myriad reasons for using lower power amps – from enforced volume limits at venues to sound engineers who insist on ‘having control’, even if that means your tone suffers. Powerful amps may still serve a purpose at outdoor festivals and arenas, but few of us play gigs like that, and with modern PAs, nobody needs 100-watts to be heard beyond the moshpit. In fact, the

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