amplifier
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They recruit a bass player named Bill Perks, who compensates for his lack of blues knowledge by bringing along an enormous amplifier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Laney was playing bass in local band The Band of Joy with John Bonham on drums and Robert Plant on vocals when he built his first amplifier in his father's garage.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
A few paces away, Jerry Garcia’s “Budman” amplifier, once part of the Grateful Dead’s three-story high “Wall of Sound,” perched atop a podium.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Because pain itself is generated in the brain, not the body’s tissues, it can be wildly out of proportion to any physical damage, an amplifier that transforms a whisper into a distorted shriek.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
Then they headed down the stairs and to the left of the chamber where that poor old Grisha amplifier had tested him.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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