What was your first amplifier?

[AudioWonderland]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Crate G60

http://www.crateamps.com/pdf/manuals/G60_OM.pdf

[AudioWonderland]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

My first amp was an American made Peavey Renown.
I was crazy enough to plug it in after the fire AND IT STILL WORKED.

Not surprising. There are many tales of those old Peavey's surviving ridiculous situations and still working.

[TheLivingDead]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

My first amp was an American made Peavey Renown.
I was crazy enough to plug it in after the fire AND IT STILL WORKED.

Wow.

There are so many obvious songs you should've played through that thing straight away.

[Dirtbagg]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Mine was a Pevey 20 watt SS one channel, don't remember the name of it though.

A friend of mine had a Marbrolo, like the cigerette, G-20 SS. He gave the Amp to me as a birthday present, so I would play again. I'll find a picture and post it.

[some_dude]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Peavey TKO 75, 1x15 combo.

I bought it because it had the biggest speaker in the pawn shop, so I figured that must make it better. It was years before I learned it was actually a bass amp.

[LesStrat]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

My first tube amp was this:

He does not receive near the amount of attention he deserves.

I played through my Dad's 1975 silverface SuperReverb for awhile, but I did not like that amp.

[TeleLubber]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Honestly, that sounds like an amazing rig and kinda makes me want it now except I'd stick a tube screamer in front of those two amps and freakin rock out. Be quite a back-saver too!

Not a bad idea.. tho the speakers are a little small, and cheap sounding.. an upgrade certainly wouldn't hurt.. they sound great with the volume around 6-8.. then they start to fart..

[Jackson Distortion]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

An Epiphone 25w solidstate amp. Decent.

[Gr8Scott]

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This was my first amp. It was an unreliable POS that sounded horrible.

My first tube amp was one of these.



It sounded much better than the Crate. I'll bet JeffH vaguely remembers seeing it back in the day.

[Rich_T]

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Weirdly it had four massive wheels on it.

[Hot Octopus]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

I had a POS Fender as my first amp.

[That90'sGuy]

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I think mine was a more primitive version of this:



It was some low wattage Crate solid state, but I don't remember there ever being separate clean and gain channels.

[alteredbeast]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Gorilla. the real small one. and an arion dist pedal. straight pimpin'

[JimInMO]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Silvertone. Don't remember the model. About late 1961 or 62. Traded the Silvertone guitar that I bought with for the little Gibson I'm playing.

[Stratman]

Re: What was your first amplifier?

Sears Silvertone suitcase amp with Sears guitar made by DanElectro.

Still have both in excellent condition and they are worth a bunch of money.
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Next Guitar was a Fender Mustang and a Fender Deluxe Reverb.

After that it was a Gibson Les Paul and a Marshall BlueBreaker

For high school graduation - my dad bought me a Gretch White Flacon single cut and Wurlitzer stereo guitar tube amplifier and an Echoplex

Still have this equipment.

Most likely all is worth a lot of moon to some collector.

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Ove the past 40+ years that I have been playing, I have purchased a lot of gear - So please take not GAS never stops!