Edited sentence: ) also dissolved the engineering group responsible for the design of Ampeg and Crate (another former American made Amp) units for the last twenty years was also closed in May of 2007.ALL Crate and Ampeg were outsourced to foreign Asian manufacturers.ALL U.Ampeg is NOT an American instrument amplifier manufacturer.They (Loud Tech Inc.This fact is undisputable.closed the manufacturing facility in Yellville Arkansas in May of 2007.manufacturing was terminated when Loud Technologies Inc