Laney Guitar Amps

As a bassist playing the local circuits with the likes of Robert Plant and John Bonham, Lyndon Laney decided to turn his hand to building amplifiers for friends in his parent's garden shed. Some of Lyndon's first customers were local Birmingham-based guitar players such as Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath who remains loyal to Laney to this day. Some of the first Laney amplifiers ever built are still around and in use. Laney Amplification officially began its career on September 1st, 1967.

In the 1980's Laney was at the forefront of amp design when it came to 'Hot Rodded' valve amplification. A line called "AOR", short for Advanced Overdrive Response, retained a natural valve tone while introducing an extra stage of preamp gain. Where amplifiers from other competitors like Marshall were being modified after purchase, Laney offered this feature from new.

Throughout the 1990's Laney continued to built on its reputation for producing innovations and by the middle of the decade had released products such as the Laney VC30 (a retro-style Class A valve combo reminicent of the famous Vox AC30, but with more features), the VC50/VC100 combos with two channels, each with a separate boost for adding more gain and volume effectively offering a player four different sounds, and the single channel GH50L/GH100L stacks which are among the best-selling models ever made by the company.