mathias headquarters united kingdom products amplifiers speaker cabinets website www.matamp.co.uk matamp is a british electric guitar amplifier manufacturing company best known for its handwired amplifier heads and speaker cabinets . it was established in 1964 by mat mathias . contents 1 history 2 current products 2.1 bass amplifiers 2.2 guitar amplifiers 2.3 guitar cabinets 3 references 4 external links history edit matamp founder mat mathias started the company radiocraft as early 1945 . what started as an interest ultimately developed into a fully fledged business building amplifiers for the burgeoning music scene in the early sixties . behind his wife s retail shop selling accessories to young musicians mat s workshop manufacturing facility also extended into a fully fledged recording studio complete with disc cutters for young bands to record and cut their own demos . this resulted in the formation of mat records . his customers would come and see him tell him what they wanted and he would build it and or record it . patterns would emerge and trends soon changed into product lines . long term friend and hi fi amplifier designer tony emerson joined with mat in the early 1960s shortly after the name matamp mat and tony amplifiers was coined . as word got around matamp would soon be working with such musical luminaries as peter green of fleetwood mac who mat joined on their us tour in the late 60 s and recording early demos with the likes of graham gouldman who would go on to form 10cc . after tony s departure and development work with fleetwood mac the company moved on to form a partnership with cliff cooper who owned a music shop called simply orange and as such started producing orange matamp from the huddersfield workshop . in 1971 orange matamp outsold marshall and gave cliff cooper a taste of volume sales . however ; mat was not prepared to forego quality standards in favour of mass production and so orange amps moved away from the company that designed the originals matamp is famous for its collaboration with orange amps in the 1960s . their mixing console matamp stereo supernova was named one of the world s best mixers by mixmag in a 2012 list 1 and features on the cover of the 2013 compilation album 12 80s club classics . 2 current products edit bass amplifiers edit gt200 guitar amplifiers edit minimat 1224 mkii gt40 gt1 gt2 guitar cabinets edit 1x12 2x12 4x12 references edit http www.mixmag.net tech tech features worlds best mixers http www.amazon.co.uk 80s club classics various artists dp b00e1ziz5w external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title matamp & oldid 683979523 categories companies established in 1958electronics companies of the united kingdomguitar amplifier manufacturers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 3 october 2015 at 19 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view