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TWO-ROCK
EXO- 15
BY JORDAN WAGNER
Two-Rock Amplification became part of Premier Builders Guild, a collective of high-end guitar and amp brands
in November of 2010, and the partnership has since freed designer Bill Krinard
to build more of the tools that have
facilitated some of the best blues and
rock tones of the last decade. If you need
proof, just listen to recent work from
John Mayer, John Scofield, Eric Gales,
Joe Bonamassa, and Matt Schofield.
Two-Rock’s mission has always been,
in significant part, dedicated to tone
transparency—making amps that cap-
ture the individual voice of a guitar
down to the last detail. With the new
EXO- 15, the company focused on capturing
that accuracy and transparency in a small,
studio-friendly unit.
a Modern tone-aged Family
Two-Rock’s pint-sized, point-to-point-wired
powerhouse is built with a lot of the same
design considerations as the rest of the
company’s products, though a crafty bit of
redesigning went into making the EXO- 15
the compact creature it is. Krinard and fel-
low Two-Rock designer Chad Mangrum
discovered that cutting the middle of the
powder-coated aluminum chassis and mov-
ing the components to the top and bottom
of the head saved enough room to fit it all
in a tiny enclosure that weighs in at just over
13 pounds.
3-band EQ
Contour control
premierguitar.com
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