This is the first of our five part series of interviews completed at the 2011 Nashville Amp Expo. Matt and Derek conducted 22 interviews over the 2.5 days, covering Amp builders, luthiers, effects builders, and accessory makers. As we did with the Montreal Show series last year, we have broken the interviews into several episodes—specifically five. In this one, we cover interviews with Adam Grim of Satellite Amps, Pete Malinowski of Malinowski Art Guitars, David Allen of D Allen Pickups, Jacob Rynearson and William Hesser of Steamboat Ampworks, and Tony from Industrial Amps.