WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST AMP?
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Evan Skopp
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST AMP?
Ross practice amp, similar to this one.
Once I joined a band, I ditched the Ross and bought a Boogie 50 Caliber, which I still own.
Ross practice amp, similar to this one.
Once I joined a band, I ditched the Ross and bought a Boogie 50 Caliber, which I still own.
Phantasmagoria
watch where you point that sabre
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It went to 11 :laugh2:
It went to 11 :laugh2:
skyydogg01
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Ibanez GT10DX. Came in one of their starter pack with a GRX40 ... basically an HSS strat clone
Still have the amp but I never play it. Speaker sounds like poop
Ibanez GT10DX. Came in one of their starter pack with a GRX40 ... basically an HSS strat clone
Still have the amp but I never play it. Speaker sounds like poop
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My first amp is an Ibanez IBZ10. Its the one with a gain knob and boost switch, but no presence knob. I've been using it for about 11-12 years, because even though I've been playing that long, I haven't been super interested in getting great tone until recently.
Somehow it survived my punk days (sorry about the foot. Haha):
Then one day recently I got bored and decided to try to make it look decent again (sorry for the crappy picture, but at least the foot has a sock on it this time):
My first amp is an Ibanez IBZ10. Its the one with a gain knob and boost switch, but no presence knob. I've been using it for about 11-12 years, because even though I've been playing that long, I haven't been super interested in getting great tone until recently.
Somehow it survived my punk days (sorry about the foot. Haha):
Then one day recently I got bored and decided to try to make it look decent again (sorry for the crappy picture, but at least the foot has a sock on it this time):
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Great_Kazoo
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I had one of these... a Guild Model Seven bass amp. I was just thinking the other day that I wish I still had it!
I had one of these... a Guild Model Seven bass amp. I was just thinking the other day that I wish I still had it!
jackson111
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my first amp was a marshall lead 15. I bought it because it was a marshall and it was 100.00 and I didn't know any better. I expected high gain but it would really only do a hot classic rock. had no effect loop and did not take pedals well at all. I hated that thing. I sold it years later when I got some money and got a peavey renouned 112, I still miss that amp.
my first amp was a marshall lead 15. I bought it because it was a marshall and it was 100.00 and I didn't know any better. I expected high gain but it would really only do a hot classic rock. had no effect loop and did not take pedals well at all. I hated that thing. I sold it years later when I got some money and got a peavey renouned 112, I still miss that amp.
Animal
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Me three! In fact I recently got mine back my friend who had borrowed it for over 10 years. I'm going to experiment with external speaker cabinets once I figure out how to safely extend the speaker wire output. It's too short to reach outside. I could perhaps just take the amp out of the stock Rage 158 cab, attach a 1/4" jack to the end of the terminals and place it very close to an external cab. I'm also wondering what an 8" Weber alnico would sound like in the Rage 158 enclosure.
Oh yeah... Feel the Rage....
(Not mine, linked from photobucket)
Me three! In fact I recently got mine back my friend who had borrowed it for over 10 years. I'm going to experiment with external speaker cabinets once I figure out how to safely extend the speaker wire output. It's too short to reach outside. I could perhaps just take the amp out of the stock Rage 158 cab, attach a 1/4" jack to the end of the terminals and place it very close to an external cab. I'm also wondering what an 8" Weber alnico would sound like in the Rage 158 enclosure.
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Kosh Naranek
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A kid at school told me I needed a serious amp when I moved on from learning on an acoustic to getting an electric guitar and amp. I totally wanted to be a career guitarist back then, freshman year of high school. And I was convinced I had a shot.
So I saved up all my money from a summer job between freshman and sophomore year, and got one of these, with the accompanying huge ported 4-12 speaker cab.
I thought having two channels with separate EQ, a switchable graphic EQ, a built in phaser, an effects loop, etc etc would mean I'd have all the tonal options I'd need to dial in great rock guitar tones. Was I ever wrong. The only feature the amp didn't have was good tone.
I sold it, and last time I saw it, it was at another kid's house and he had one of those cool 80's Roland guitar synths and had that plugged into it.
For me, this was the first in a series of mediocre, budget amps, including tube amps from Roland and Dean Markley, that I owned as a young and poor guy just starting out in life in the 1980's.
I've got better amps today, but I must confess I still can't bring myself to drop over $2000 on a high end amp. I've come close. I really wanted to get a PRS amp when GC put them on clearance in early 2014, but they were gone by the time I went back. So I dropped $2000 on PRS guitars instead.
My first guitar rig was my 1979 Fender Strat (still have that) into a Ross distortion (stolen by some kid at my high school) into this Peavey amp. Later came a Systech flanger (sold) and a MuTron wah/volume (still have).
A kid at school told me I needed a serious amp when I moved on from learning on an acoustic to getting an electric guitar and amp. I totally wanted to be a career guitarist back then, freshman year of high school. And I was convinced I had a shot.
So I saved up all my money from a summer job between freshman and sophomore year, and got one of these, with the accompanying huge ported 4-12 speaker cab.
I thought having two channels with separate EQ, a switchable graphic EQ, a built in phaser, an effects loop, etc etc would mean I'd have all the tonal options I'd need to dial in great rock guitar tones. Was I ever wrong. The only feature the amp didn't have was good tone.
I sold it, and last time I saw it, it was at another kid's house and he had one of those cool 80's Roland guitar synths and had that plugged into it.
For me, this was the first in a series of mediocre, budget amps, including tube amps from Roland and Dean Markley, that I owned as a young and poor guy just starting out in life in the 1980's.
I've got better amps today, but I must confess I still can't bring myself to drop over $2000 on a high end amp. I've come close. I really wanted to get a PRS amp when GC put them on clearance in early 2014, but they were gone by the time I went back. So I dropped $2000 on PRS guitars instead.
My first guitar rig was my 1979 Fender Strat (still have that) into a Ross distortion (stolen by some kid at my high school) into this Peavey amp. Later came a Systech flanger (sold) and a MuTron wah/volume (still have).
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75lespaul
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This is one of the greatest threads ever, lol. I cringe when I think I could have had one of these MINT for around a grand about ten years ago. I guess the fact that I got a first year JCM 800 halfstack for five bills in 83 evens things out. What a great amp, Edgecrusher!
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OMG, reminds me SO much of what I did with my first amp! My uncle gave me one of those old consoles with a TV and stereo in it that was like six feet long and three or four feet high, lol. I wired up that noname solid state box to the big speakers in the console and had my first "half stack", lol. No idea if the ohms matched as I was only sixteen, and in 1979 there was no internet and nobody to say I could blow everything up and set fire to the house. My mom would have been so pissed.
This is one of the greatest threads ever, lol. I cringe when I think I could have had one of these MINT for around a grand about ten years ago. I guess the fact that I got a first year JCM 800 halfstack for five bills in 83 evens things out. What a great amp, Edgecrusher!
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OMG, reminds me SO much of what I did with my first amp! My uncle gave me one of those old consoles with a TV and stereo in it that was like six feet long and three or four feet high, lol. I wired up that noname solid state box to the big speakers in the console and had my first "half stack", lol. No idea if the ohms matched as I was only sixteen, and in 1979 there was no internet and nobody to say I could blow everything up and set fire to the house. My mom would have been so pissed.
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Crate GX15R. I still have it, though it's got a ground issue and I can't get it to stop buzzing, which is annoying when I'm trying to give lessons with it. I'm thinking about just turning it in and getting another small used amp with slightly better features.
Crate GX15R. I still have it, though it's got a ground issue and I can't get it to stop buzzing, which is annoying when I'm trying to give lessons with it. I'm thinking about just turning it in and getting another small used amp with slightly better features.
Boogie Bill
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My first was a new Kalamazoo Model TWO--same as this one, but with tremolo--three knobs. This was 1965-66; I think--my mom paid about $65 for it. Didn't really have any clean headroom; and didn't sound as good cranked as the small Fender BF amps of the era. I think I still have it in my storage locker.
My first good amp was a used BF Fender Band Master head and 212 cab. I bought this around late 1967, I think. I had to finance it through HFC, and I think it was $300. Very good amp. A couple of my high school competitors had BF Super Reverbs though--I always missed the reverb with this amp. Reverb is still one of the coolest effects ever.
However that amp was stolen out of my car in 1972 and never recovered. I replaced with a SS Gibson Medalist 410 combo, and that lasted about three days before it went back to the store in exchange for a SS SUNN Solos II 212 combo. I paid the rent for many years with that SUNN amp; I still have it but I haven't used it in years. I also had one of the Acoustic 150 heads and 610 cabs for a month or so in 1975, but traded that for a new LP Special Reissues--one of the best trades I've ever made.
And then in the '90s, the tube madness began again, starting with a Fender Super Champ, and then several vintage Fenders and Marshalls before finding my first Mesa, a Mark III half-stack. It's nothing but Mesa since, and I currently have seven of them.
Bill
My first was a new Kalamazoo Model TWO--same as this one, but with tremolo--three knobs. This was 1965-66; I think--my mom paid about $65 for it. Didn't really have any clean headroom; and didn't sound as good cranked as the small Fender BF amps of the era. I think I still have it in my storage locker.
My first good amp was a used BF Fender Band Master head and 212 cab. I bought this around late 1967, I think. I had to finance it through HFC, and I think it was $300. Very good amp. A couple of my high school competitors had BF Super Reverbs though--I always missed the reverb with this amp. Reverb is still one of the coolest effects ever.
However that amp was stolen out of my car in 1972 and never recovered. I replaced with a SS Gibson Medalist 410 combo, and that lasted about three days before it went back to the store in exchange for a SS SUNN Solos II 212 combo. I paid the rent for many years with that SUNN amp; I still have it but I haven't used it in years. I also had one of the Acoustic 150 heads and 610 cabs for a month or so in 1975, but traded that for a new LP Special Reissues--one of the best trades I've ever made.
And then in the '90s, the tube madness began again, starting with a Fender Super Champ, and then several vintage Fenders and Marshalls before finding my first Mesa, a Mark III half-stack. It's nothing but Mesa since, and I currently have seven of them.
Bill
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I had an old Marvel 30 watt tube amp with only a volume control and a tone knob and a 15" speaker that I got from a pawn shop for like $15. Believe it or not, it ROCKED when cranked. Then it was a bandit 65 two years later.
Wish I still had both for nostalgia's sake.
I had an old Marvel 30 watt tube amp with only a volume control and a tone knob and a 15" speaker that I got from a pawn shop for like $15. Believe it or not, it ROCKED when cranked. Then it was a bandit 65 two years later.
Wish I still had both for nostalgia's sake.
Telecustom
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Music Man RD112
http://www.bazaar-world.com/guitar-amp-2669-Music-Man-Guitar-Amplifier-112-RD-50
Music Man RD112
http://www.bazaar-world.com/guitar-amp-2669-Music-Man-Guitar-Amplifier-112-RD-50
ehdwuld
A Ficus
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ok I believe I got that one
played thru the stereo for a bit
then I think it was a Gorilla, or at least something very much like it
karaoke machine
a pignose 20 and 40
then the Laney GC80A in the late 90s
a Carvin Redline 600 Bass amp in 99
then a Carvin Belair at the end of 2000
and here lately a slew of practice amps and such
ok I believe I got that one
played thru the stereo for a bit
then I think it was a Gorilla, or at least something very much like it
karaoke machine
a pignose 20 and 40
then the Laney GC80A in the late 90s
a Carvin Redline 600 Bass amp in 99
then a Carvin Belair at the end of 2000
and here lately a slew of practice amps and such
