My passion for music and creativity is embedded in my genetic code. My father was a goldsmith and a pretty decent guitarist. My mother was a costume designer and made a hell of a pair of patch leather pants. Having been born in the ’60s, my childhood was far from ordinary. Nursery rhymes were more often the words to songs from The Who, Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Stones and countless others. If you could spin a vinyl record from my DNA string, songs like “Boris the Spider,” “Let it Be,” “Spirit in the Sky,” and “Satisfaction” would no doubt fill the room. I’ve always had a guitar around. As a pre-schooler, I can still remember dropping the needle on a George Harrison record and learning the slide guitar part – using a nickel for a slide.

I pursued a professional music career and recorded my first record for Mike Varney’s Shrapnel Records in 1983. I was 16 at the time. I landed my first major label deal in 1989 with Island Records (home to U2 and Bob Marley) while playing lead guitar in the San Francisco band, VAIN. Along the way, I made ends meet by teaching guitar and selling guitar gear. Like many of us, I fell in love with gear, reaching for everything I could get my hands on that might inspire me and take my music to new levels. Utilizing these tools, music has taken me around the world to perform in cities like Montreal, Tokyo, London, Madrid, New York and Rome.

My career shifted from a music artist to entrepreneur quite naturally. With my love of gear, guitar chops and a splash of moxy, I helped launch Xwire Digital Wireless. The company was bought out by Sennheiser – a company I would spend the next seven years with honing my business skills. More recently, I played an essential role at X2 Digital Wireless, creators of the world’s first footpedal based digital wireless system. X2 took the industry by storm and was bought out by Line 6 where I would spend a year working closely with industry innovators such as Marcus Ryle and Guy Coker.

My mind is constantly creating and being the tube amp purist that I am, I felt I had to step outside of the comfort and confines of Line 6 to fulfill my vision of what extraordinary guitar tone should be. It should sound, feel and inspire players as well as everyone in the audience just like a master recording. It occurred to me that I had played key roles in bringing great guitar tone to audiences around the world either as a player, recording engineer or working with microphone and wireless manufacturers. Why not cut to the chase and start a new music company that creates tube amplifiers? In July of 2009, 3rd Power Amplification was born!

Over the past twelve years, 3rd Power has established a solid reputation as a manufacturer of vintage-inspired guitar products based on innovation and earning three US Patents along the way. Triangular Chambered Speaker Cabs, MagFRAG Pickups, and circuits such as HybridMASTER and Preamp Tube Bias unleash the tonal options available to today’s guitarists.

A diverse professional users group include Simon Townshend (The Who, Roger Daltrey), Lenny Kravitz, Joe Walsh, Vince Gill, Dann Huff, Audley Freed (Sheryl Crow), Sadler Vaden (Jason Isbell) and many others.

Dylana Nova Scott is an American entrepreneur, CEO, 3x patented inventor, presenter/public speaker, and musician based in Nashville, TN. With her company 3rd Power Amplification, Ms. Scott has designed and built guitar gear for celebrities and musicians from acts such as Vince Gill, Joe Walsh, Lenny Kravitz, Halestorm, Winger, Skid Row, Justin Timberlake, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Ben Rector, Morgan Wallen, and many more.

Dylana is also known for her guitar work with the San Francisco glam/metal band, Vain (signed by Island Records in 1989, home to Bob Marley and U2). Vain enjoyed success with two hit singles and MTV airplay with “Beat The Bullet” and “Who’s Watching You”, both from their debut album, “No Respect”. Ms. Scott still records and performs with Vain to this day.

As a panelist/public speaker, Ms. Scott enjoys representing transgender women in business and the music industry. She’s spoken during the Empowerment of Women in the Music Industry Panel (Bonnaroo) and has worked with corporate clients such as Capital One.

“I’ve been blessed with a wealth of experiences and I put myself in the shoes of others seeing the creative process from different angles. I think deeply about the impact the gear can have on everyone’s experience: the artist, the band, the sound person, and ultimately the audience and then approach creating gear to wring out the most tone, passion and inspiration possible.

If there’s anything we musicians have learned in this new world we’re living in today, it’s that we were born to play, create, express ourselves and inspire others through music.”

Dylana Nova Scott
Amp Artist and CEO