DreamAmp

This is a video demo of Max Butler’s personal 25 watt Swamp amp, with Darrell Orr on guitar, playing his 70’s Les Paul custom (straight in), 1×12″ cabinet. The Swamp is an incredibly versatile amp, 1 channel, and comes in 25, 30, and 50 watt versions. It’s VERY pedal friendly, and basically what you might call a “Bassman on steroids”. It can be very clean, and play blues and jazz just like silk and butter, or (when you crank it) it can be very biting like the best Nugent licks you ever heard!

Last time I was in Eaton Rapids at Max’s house picking up my Silver Hammer amp head, Max’s long time friend was there – Darrell Orr. Max has been friends with Darrell since he gave him guitar lessons as a teenager! I was lucky enough to have Darrell play my HSS strat through my Butler Silver Hammer and got a quick video demo. You can hear as he turns up the volume and “give it some more gas” how it turns the snarl on this incredible amp.

The “Silver Hammer” is a 2 channel (footswitchable) 50 watt Plexi, that’s VERY pedal friendly!

Here’s a great pic of the Max Butler Amp and 4×12 cab built for Tracy Stiles! You can read what he has to say on our testimonials page.

If you own a Max Butler amp, you can submit your picture or testimonial on our About page.

Chuck Mohelsky was nice enough to submit a dozen and a half pictures of the 4 different Max Butler amps he owns (including the one originally built for CC Deville of Poison), and awesome pics of one of the first Silver Hammer amps built back in the 70’s.

Click the link below the picture to visit the full photo gallery:

Visit the Max Butler Amp Photo gallery

We’re glad to say that the Max Butler Amp photos gallery is now online! Max has built about 350-400+ amps over the last 30+ years, and yet all we have (to date) is about a half-dozen images. We’d like to get as many pictures as possible in the photo gallery online. If you’re reading this, and you own a Butler amp – please submit your picture now! All you have to do is visit our about page. You can submit your picture, or testimonial there.

Click here for the Testimonials

Click here to visit the photo gallery

Welcome to Max Butler Amps! This is the official informational resource about Max Butler Amps – built in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Max has never advertised on or offline before, and since there is so little history regarding his amps online – we put together this informational web site as a resource for players to have a way to connect with Max, and for Max to have a way to easily post any information he’d like online.

If you’d like to know more about Max Butler Amps, start at the about page.