A Brief History of the Two-Rock Tone

K & M Analog Designs, LLC was founded in 1999 by Bill Krinard and Joe Mloganoski. Both have long histories in music, sound, and electronic design. Their collaboration is driven by their desire to produce the best sounding guitar amplifiers available, and began with listening to, playing and tweaking many of the fine production tube amplifiers of the last 60 years.

Joe Mloganoski has been playing guitar for 42 years. At the age of 18, he worked a full time day job while playing local venues, at times 7 days a week. His tone quest began on the Boston area club scene. After making his way to the left coast he continued playing music in a variety of bands, always looking for that elusive killer guitar tone. He delved heavily into electronics, operating his own electronic repair business for 13 years before his true passion for music, guitars and tube amps led him to team with Bill.

Bill Krinard has been involved in tube amp technology for the past 40 years. During this time he has designed hi-fi tube amps and has spent countless hours tweaking production guitar amps. In addition, Bill has created several new and innovative circuits and applications for guitar amplifiers that have been copied by many. Already known locally as the tube-amp guru, his extensive knowledge of construction techniques and huge reservoir of tone secrets is unsurpassed. The design and production of K&M and Two-Rock amps has launched Bill and Joe to the forefront of boutique guitar amplification.

The History of the Name

Our company is K&M, and our first 10 amps were labeled K&M Analog Designs(no model name/number). We were building amps very close to Two Rock, CA at the time and thought Two Rock was a cool name. As luck would have it, tworock.com was taken, so we put a - in it. All subsequent amps carried the Two-Rock name, and we decided to save the K&M moniker for the occasional custom amp Bill or I would build for an artist, etc. Things were moving along just fine until 9/11- and then business virtually halted. At the time, we were trying to duplicate the tone of Steve Kimock's 50 watt Dumble, and once he told us we nailed it, we built a few. A few turned into 10, and they had the K&M name on them. We originally did not plan to sell them through our Two-Rock dealer network, hoping only to have a few artists and friends pick them up to keep us going while the country was in shock. Eventually, word spread, and the dealers wanted to sell them-no problem! So off we went, leaving the K&M name in place. Once the economy smoothed out, the K&M Custom received a revamped reverb circuit, and became the Two-Rock Custom Reverb. Today, K&M Analog Designs, LLC is the parent company of Two-Rock Amplifiers, Crystal-Clear cables, and K&M Custom shop and Krinard Custom amplifiers.