Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

American Musician

Dick Dale

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.

Tariq Ramadan

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

Swiss Writer

Lee Ranaldo

I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals.

Michael Schenker

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

German Musician

B. B. King

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

Lee Ritenour

I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

Ritchie Blackmore

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

English Musician

Jon Taffer

I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.

American Businessman

Harold Stephen Black

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

American Inventor

Refers to physical equipment used to boost audio and electronic signals.

Electrical Device

Primarily used to increase volume in various audio devices like speakers or musical instruments.

Volume Control

An amplifier needs an external power source to function, unlike acoustic instruments.

Requires Power

Used figuratively to describe something that intensifies an effect or situation.

Metaphorical Use

In non-technical contexts, it emphasizes the increase of emotional responses.

Emotional Impact

Highlights the idea of making something already present more noticeable or significant.

Enhancement Effects

Indicates the amplification or strengthening of digital signals, used in computing and technology.

In Digital Terms

Mostly used in technical settings, like computer networking or digital communications.

Technical Context

 We could probably hear it, if we tune in." So they ask around to a couple of their colleagues, and everybody's like, "No, I hadn't thought of doing that. That's an interesting idea." And it turns out Weiffenbach is kind of an expert in microwave reception, and he's got a little antenna set up with an amplifier in his office. So Guier and Weiffenbach go back to Weiffenbach's office,

Where good ideas come...

 which is making these series of pulses, and it uses it like a bat uses sonar. Well, a bat uses radar, but when it's underwater it's sonar, so this animal is using sonar to see its world in sound. Trying to understand how this works, you have to look at it as if you were looking at the amplifier speakers of a sound system.

How whales breathe,...

 you can do something bad to your amplifier. And then once that's done, I'm going to glue it all together so it's nice and tight. Now I don't nearly have 150 coils there so I made one in advance and I'm going to use that one. So where is it? Here it is. What I'm going to do is simply hot glue it

A call to invention: DIY...

 Now, really, in some sense, I want the players to be building this world in their imagination, and then extracting it from them with the least amount of pain. So that's kind of what these tools are about. How do we make the gameplay, you know, basically the player's imagination amplifier?

Will Wright: Spore,...

 actually strengthens our democracy, so that people feel, truly, that everybody can think of something that improves the welfare of not just Taiwan, but pretty much everybody else in the world. And so, my point here is that the great amplifier comes if no matter you want it or not,

How digital innovation...

 and confirm that the participants were actually doing what we said. Our hypotheses about attention were as if attention is indeed doing its job and affecting perception, maybe it works like an amplifier. And what I mean by this is that when we direct attention to the face,

How to tame your...

 i'm about to show three passes by a pitch perfect experiment okay like two minutes of your time what's that speaker to speaker yes well done it goes into a little amplifier there which boosts the sound coming from my phone okay right

Pitch Perfect PIPE National...

 hyoid bone in their throats that serves as a kind of amplifier plus their semi saggy throat pouches further amplify their orations why do they howl like this only the male's how they probably do it to let other howlers know where

Howler Monkeys PIPE...

 So this is what the supermarket is like. And then you go to the consumer electronics store to set up a stereo system -- speakers, CD player, tape player, tuner, amplifier -- and in this one single consumer electronics store,

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 instead it has superb hearing its entire head acts as an amplifier that picks up vibrations through the sand so to locate prey on the surface of the dune

Amplifier