Shawn Dore was a Solo contestant in the 2014 International Blues Competition in Memphis and the Shawn Dore Band a contestant in 2015.

I struggled with my tone for years, never being satisfied with what I heard, and always trying to use an effects pedal to hide what I felt sounded unpleasant. Until I was introduced to Trinity Amps!

It’s hard to explain with little to no electronics theory knowledge… I had found a few guitar amps and I had fallen in love with their sound, but they were blackface Fenders and vintage Marshalls and way out of my price range. Thinking that I could get the same sounds out of re-issued designs, I could not figure out why two “same” amps could sound so different. To my ear, the newer tube amps sound very brittle and thin compared to the ones from the 50’s and 60’s, but I figured it was due to being “worked in”.

When I first tried a Trinity amp I was amazed that it could have those same full and warm tones, without having 60 years of use.

The Trinity Amplifiers are very well built, and are very powerful amps for being such low wattage. You can crank them up to get the tone that you want without piercing any eardrums, and they still have plenty of volume. They are all I need for any show big or small, having volume to spare in the bars and clubs, and on the bigger stages the amps are always mic’d anyways. I no longer have a row of effects pedals in front of me to make my amp sound better, I let the amp do the screaming.

Being a blues player, tone is huge and I found my tone with Trinity Amps!