Amp regrets?
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LesStrat
Reining PunLowered
I had a Peavey Bandit 112S that sounded remarkably good. I sold it to a forum brother (RIP).
I don’t know that I really regret it, because I never play through an amp anymore. Yet that amp was one of those unexpected gems. Nothing special about the make/model, yet it sang.
I don’t know that I really regret it, because I never play through an amp anymore. Yet that amp was one of those unexpected gems. Nothing special about the make/model, yet it sang.
soulforger
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I have three:
Marshall 1987x 50w head modded by David Bray
Voodoo modded Peavey JSX 120 head
and my first real head I bought used in the early '80s for $350
which was a JMP Mk II Master Series 50 watt
It was sad to realize that as much as I loved them I simply had no possibility of using them anymore, it's all smaller heads or combos for me now and there are so many awesome 15-20w heads. I still really want a Studio Jubilee
Marshall 1987x 50w head modded by David Bray
Voodoo modded Peavey JSX 120 head
and my first real head I bought used in the early '80s for $350
which was a JMP Mk II Master Series 50 watt
It was sad to realize that as much as I loved them I simply had no possibility of using them anymore, it's all smaller heads or combos for me now and there are so many awesome 15-20w heads. I still really want a Studio Jubilee
beaubrummels
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LLL
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Blille
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beaubrummels
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FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
That’s a nice selection of amps you’ve played! How did you end up with the Bugera?
the dsl I had probably ten years ago. Sold it cuz at the time I moved to an apartment.
the or15 I sold when a roommate left me with that apartment lease
The super Sonic and Princeton I got after I started to recover from that but
I took some time off during COVID to realign my still kinda low paying career path and dipped a bit hard into my savings causing me to sell them. after all I'm no professional just a hobbyist.
The used bugera was 220$ shipped. It has been surprisingly decent so I've been wanting to try to see if it can't last a while cuz while it is not so great sounding it's really not bad. Clean channel with big muff sounds pretty crushing in a small room lol. It's the vintage 22 combo and I put an eminence attenuating speaker in it cuz I've had that speaker for like ten years as well.
I had been looking at 5w tube amps but was like...I don't always play doom but when I do it needs to be more bone crushing than 5w. And the v22 clean channel is pretty clean and so stuff like big muffs and rats are all good. The guy admitted he didn't charge enough for shipping but there was a tube dead on arrival so we called it good.
Blille
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That makes sense. I’ve never played a 22 but it sounds like it punches above its weight. I really hope things get back on track for you so you can rebuild your tasteful amp collection.
FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
THANKS! The v22 is a bargain if you are not expecting Marshall or Mesa tone quality. The tone stack is bf fender and it has 4 gain stages on the gain channel so it can kinda rip with a pedal on the dirty side too. But the open back 112 format is not great for chugging I'll admit
BenPerkins
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Amp regrets… I remember when I was 15 and borrowed my uncle’s Acoustic Control 125 over the summer. He wanted it back (I assumed to jam or whatever), but instead gave it to his brother in law. Brother in law never played it, just sat in a garage. (Probably still rotting away in the garage)
LLL
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That’s a nice selection of amps you’ve played! How did you end up with the Bugera?
Good question.
I miss my ‘80s Rivera-era Fender Champ II. It was a hand-wired 18 watt 1 by 10” combo. Simple controls with a great distortion sound if you pulled the mid-boost (on the treble control, as I recall) and turned it up a bit. I sold it to make a couple child support payment when I was between jobs one time. No regrets on that part of it, but I grew up playing that amp, and do miss it. Prices are stupid high for them, though. But, it was the perfect bedroom/living room amp.
Powdered Toast Man
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Opposite situation: Amp I regretted buying was the Fender Vibro-King. I know if you look up posts about them you'll hear things like, "best amp ever made", "desert island amp" etc. I disagree. I bought it because I got a great deal on a floor model that the dealer needed gone. Figured it was the Cadillac of Fender amps, right? Ugh. It was obscenely heavy (same weight as a Twin Reverb). It's also loud. And it's unreliable. The tremolo is prone to "ticking" noises which I never got fully ironed out. I had the power transformer fail. And in that process of repair I found out that all the parts in their "hand wired" expensive amp are Chinese made import components.
And on top of that, even though I got a deal on it in the first place (almost 50% off retail) I STILL lost money when I sold it because NO ONE WANTS BIG HEAVY LOUD COMBOS ANYMORE. I wish I'd never have bought that amp.
And on top of that, even though I got a deal on it in the first place (almost 50% off retail) I STILL lost money when I sold it because NO ONE WANTS BIG HEAVY LOUD COMBOS ANYMORE. I wish I'd never have bought that amp.
devastone
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Not that I have a place to use any of these now, but...
Soldano HR50+
small box 50W JCM 800 in British green tolex
a couple metal panel Superleads (sold one to Audley Freed for $350 when CoL was recording their first album)
rack with a Kasha Rockmod II running through a Replifex and Intellifex out through a MosValve 962 (stereo gloriosity, probably my favorite tones ever)
There were more including a Mesa Mark V, Fender Prosonic, early JCM900, Yamadano combo, original silver face Champ, the list goes on...
Soldano HR50+
small box 50W JCM 800 in British green tolex
a couple metal panel Superleads (sold one to Audley Freed for $350 when CoL was recording their first album)
rack with a Kasha Rockmod II running through a Replifex and Intellifex out through a MosValve 962 (stereo gloriosity, probably my favorite tones ever)
There were more including a Mesa Mark V, Fender Prosonic, early JCM900, Yamadano combo, original silver face Champ, the list goes on...
