Blackhawk Amplifiers

Blackhawk Amplifiers

Also known as: Blackhawk, Blackhawk Amps

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Blackhawk Amplifiers is a Portland, Oregon builder of hand-wired tube amplifiers, preamplifiers, and effects pedals founded by Brooks Blackhawk. The company is oriented toward high-gain and heavy music, with a catalog aimed at players pursuing doom, sludge, stoner, death, and black metal tones, though many of its drives, fuzzes, and utility effects see use well outside those genres.

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Blackhawk Amplifiers is a Portland, Oregon builder of hand-wired tube amplifiers, preamplifiers, and effects pedals founded by Brooks Blackhawk. The company is oriented toward high-gain and heavy music, with a catalog aimed at players pursuing doom, sludge, stoner, death, and black metal tones, though many of its drives, fuzzes, and utility effects see use well outside those genres.

The pedal lineup leans heavily on Norse and Tolkien-inspired naming, including the Balrog distortion, Nazgûl parallel fuzz/distortion, Heimdall-2 bass drive, Lothlórien reverb, Valhalla fuzz, Asgard, Mithrandir, and the Ouroboros compressor/sustainer. Alongside the pedals, Blackhawk designs and builds tube amplifier heads and preamps in-house. A distinctive visual identity runs across the range: knob functions are marked with Viking runes and tribal symbols rather than text, and enclosures are offered in variations such as standard black, a distressed "blackened" finish, and copper hammertone.

Production is small-batch and builder-direct, with sales handled primarily through the company's own site and its Reverb shop. The brand has developed a following within the underground heavy-music community through word of mouth, pedal-forum coverage, and demos on sites like Guitar Pedal X.

Blackhawk Amplifiers has 28 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Fuzz Effects Pedals, Distortion Effects Pedals, and Overdrive Effects Pedals. Their gear is featured by 3 artists, with the strongest followings in Rock, Metal, and Electronic. Notable users include Tim Lash, Nathan Weaver, and quickly, quickly.

Artists Who Use Blackhawk Amplifiers

Tim Lash uses 1 Blackhawk Amplifiers product

Tim Lash

Guitarist · HUM

Nathan Weaver uses 1 Blackhawk Amplifiers product

Nathan Weaver

Singer, Guitarist · Wolves in the Throne Room

quickly, quickly uses 1 Blackhawk Amplifiers product

quickly, quickly

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