Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

[NegativeEase]

It's the 40 Watt Traynor YBA-1 Bassmaster with 4 inputs (2 Channels Hi/Low). -But everyone uses for Guitar -Think Marshall Plexi with a deeper rounder vibe. -Also gets gritty -especially when you daisy chain the the inputs.

It used to be known as the "Canadian Plexi" it's basically a modded Bassman 5F6A Circuit with 2 EL34s, Solid State rectifier, and a very large transformer because Peter Traynor designed it for Bass use originally. Also the world's easiest amp to mod, all the components face up on a simple removable top -in same the way a boxer engine is the easiest motor to work on in a car.

Probably wouldn't make this thread if the secret hadn't been out for over a decade and the prices already driven up to almost Marshall levels -plus nobody looks at the AMP forum much on here. I've owned 3 since the 90s, and am kicking myself for not buying that one they had with cabinet at the Cherry Hill Guitar Center outside Philly last year when I was stopping by to look at that absolutely insane collection of 30 Vintage Marshalls they bought out of a barn.

Anyways -these pics are not mine -Mine isn't near as pretty -this is one is on Reverb.









Gimme some other Vintage amps you have an unhealthy obsession with:

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

How old do you figure an amp ought to be before it’s considered vintage?

 

[NegativeEase]

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How old do you figure an amp ought to be before it’s considered vintage?

Ha -great question.

It's relative -based on your Birthdate :lmao:

-if the amp was already unavailable new when you were born -it's Vintage... to you -and that's what matters -

 

[jeremy]

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my '66 deluxe reverb is the go to amp for just about everything

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

my '66 deluxe reverb is the go to amp for just about everything

my 68 Deluxe is the same for me -That would be my other favorite -but didn't want to lead out a thread about the amp everyone already considers the "desert island" amp of all amps :lmao:

 

[jeremy]

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i hear ya but ya asked, so i answered. i got it for $600 maybe 15 years ago. served me well since

 

[Ayrton]

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My ‘72 Marshall SLP count?

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

My ‘72 Marshall SLP count?

Oh yeah!

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

In that case, I have never owned a vintage amp.

 

[PFDarkside]

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It wasn’t mine but I had it for a while.... a Silver Face Bassman 50 with matching vertical 2x12”. That amp was awesome. Why don’t I just buy one?

EDIT - you know it may have been a 2x15”.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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My '73 Super Reverb

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

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JTM45

 

[Boogie Bill]

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I've owned so many great amps, it would be hard to pick. I've owned a vintage 1965 Deluxe Reverb and a Band Master 212 rig, a blonde 1964 Tremolux 210 rig, a SF MV Twin Reverb, a Super Champ w/EV 10", a Fender 75 head and 112 EV Force cab. I've played on all of the BF Fenders at one time or another. I had a hot love affair with a big SF Dual Showman Reverb 215 JBL rig that my local Musicians Union owned. I'd say the Super Champ, then the Tremolux followed by the DR were my favorites of the ones I've owned.

I've also owned and played on several Marshalls. The JCM 800 I had was a really good amp; a one-trick pony...but a really good trick. That's been my experience with all the Marshalls I've played.

But honestly, I doubt I'd trade any of my Mesas for any of those amps, from a player's perspective. As an investment, maybe, yes. The first Mesa amp I bought was a Godsend. It was the amp I needed for the range of styles I was playing. It had the clean, crunch and lead tones I needed, and it worked well with the various guitars I played. It made me a better player, and people started coming up to the stage and complimenting me on my tones and my playing. Heady stuff. I sold the other amps when I had some rough times but hung on to the Mesas, and I've never really regretted that. I love my Mesa amps.

Bill

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

'68 Princeton Reverb

I used to have a YGM-III. It was a great amp that I regret selling.

 

[Ascension]

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Favorite would be the one off Fender Prosonic head I bought off this guy named brad played in some band called Aero some thing.
Yes it's a little more recent but was one of one handbuilt by Bruce Zinky himself. Prosonic combo chassis, Tone master power supply and was the ONLY 120 watt Fender Prosonic ever built at the Fender Custom shop Plus was the only Prosonic head built with Reverb. Sadly was sold to keep my house after I got sideways with a Political group that tried to destroy me and my family. I and we survived but in the end many of them did NOT!!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/rutledri/WhitfordProsonicFront.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/rutledri/WhitfordProsonicrear1.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/rutledri/DSC00802.jpg
Used it on the guitar tracks here with my old band.
https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=7804102

 

[cliffenstein]

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'79 Marshall JMP 2204...had it for year before it was stolen out of my car (smashed windows...the whole shebang).

 

[NecroPolo]

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Selmer Treble 'n' Bass from the late '60s.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

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I had a blackface Bassman in my recording studio back in the 80s & early 90s. Great classic amp. It wasn't part of my personal rig at the time so when I closed the recording studio in I sold it along with most of the other gear. Dumb move - I missed the thing immediately and for years afterward. Around 2015 I finally got myself another. This one's a '64 head modded by Dan Torres originally, then rebuilt by Billy Zoom using the original iron. He tweaked the voicing on the Bass channel and built the Normal channel to blonde-era 6G6a specs. Both channels are fantastic and now I don't miss the other one anymore.

But if I could only keep one amp it would be my oldest Boogie, one of the very first Mark IIs. Randy Smith made it for me back in the 70s when he was still building 'em at home. I've put far more hours on that amp than any other in my career, more than three thousand sets & sessions before I retired it in the mid-90s.

It's a wild, sweet, loud little monster. Also a great clean platform but I have other, less classic amps for that.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

Selmer Treble 'n' Bass from the late '60s.

Those are quite collectable. I played one in an Asheville North Carolina guitar shop years ago -and loved it.

 

[Ascension]

Re: Favorite Vintage Guitar Amp you've owned

It's the 40 Watt Traynor YBA-1 Bassmaster with 4 inputs (2 Channels Hi/Low). -But everyone uses for Guitar -Think Marshall Plexi with a deeper rounder vibe. -Also gets gritty -especially when you daisy chain the the inputs.

It used to be known as the "Canadian Plexi" it's basically a modded Bassman 5F6A Circuit with 2 EL34s, Solid State rectifier, and a very large transformer because Peter Traynor designed it for Bass use originally. Also the world's easiest amp to mod, all the components face up on a simple removable top -in same the way a boxer engine is the easiest motor to work on in a car.

Probably wouldn't make this thread if the secret hadn't been out for over a decade and the prices already driven up to almost Marshall levels -plus nobody looks at the AMP forum much on here. I've owned 3 since the 90s, and am kicking myself for not buying that one they had with cabinet at the Cherry Hill Guitar Center outside Philly last year when I was stopping by to look at that absolutely insane collection of 30 Vintage Marshalls they bought out of a barn.

Anyways -these pics are not mine -Mine isn't near as pretty -this is one is on Reverb.

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Gimme some other Vintage amps you have an unhealthy obsession with:

Owned a Traynor YBA3 Custom Special tube head back in the later 70's. just a wicked loud killer clean amp that was a fantastic pedal platform. Would crunch but only at volumes that were LETHAL with big tube power but what a killer rich fat clean that was to die for! Those old Traynor amps are really cool!
One of THESE!!