Guitar amp poll

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Favorite guitar amp

  • Marshall

    Votes: 276 19.8%

  • Mesa Boogie

    Votes: 203 14.6%

  • Fender

    Votes: 301 21.6%

  • Vox

    Votes: 133 9.5%

  • Soldano

    Votes: 27 1.9%

  • Peavey

    Votes: 104 7.5%

  • Anything but a peavey

    Votes: 34 2.4%

  • other

    Votes: 316 22.7%
  • Total voters
    1,394
Fender all the way

well, not really, I do love my Orange Rocker 30, but i just got a Handbuild replica of a '59 Fender Bassman, and man is it sweet. A friend of mine a has a Guytron, and a Tophat, both a really nice. I'd like to get a Marshall one of these days....Come on Santa!!!

JasonBird
 
I still like the vintage Fender blackface and silverface amps, which I use a lot, along with the JCM 800s and older Traynor amps (the newer ones are also well made). The USA made Peavey Classic 30s are bulletproof and great values for musicians that want a tube sound built around a quad of EL84s, but who can't afford an AC30.
 
It's hard to name a favorite amp, but I went with vox. I love clean AC30 tones.
 
In 1989 my wife left me for another bloke, so I went out and got me a new-ish amp.
A musicman 120w with a 15" speaker.
15 years later it's still going strong, don't know what year it is.
Only trouble is, at 63, me that is not the amp, I can't pick it up anymore so it only gets turned on in the bedroom.

I checked it out on a website a couple of years ago and the site suggested it was worth $800+.

Don't ask... the wife won't let me sell it as she puts her keyboard through as well.
 
MrStitch said:
Forgot to mention.... I played on that Blue Voodoo once, and it stunk.

Or was that the Red Voodoo.... heck, can't remember now. I just remember seeing the Crate sign, and hearing this thin, over priced, sound puking from the cab..... just like all the other crate products I've used.
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I just played a gig where the backline was provided for us, they had a crate blue voodoo halfstacks on each side of the stage for us. I saw em and thought 'Ohhh GAWD...' but once I plugged in and heard it, I was surprised. Wasn't a marshall, but it had a decent tube tone imo. It was miles ahead of what I expected, I never heard anything from Crate that I liked before that point.

/JCM800's all the way!
 
Fender for me. Has anyone played on an "Orange" amp? If so, what did you think. I thought the sound was great, but the price was too much.
 
Coughmist said:
Fender for me. Has anyone played on an "Orange" amp? If so, what did you think. I thought the sound was great, but the price was too much.
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I love Oranges, but to me you can get a similar sound out of a Marshall for half the price, and Marshalls are overpriced to begin with.
 
My amps are a Fender Vibro King and a Trace Elliot Velocette. I run 5751 preamp tubes in the Vibro King in place of the stock 12AX7's. They really warm up the early break up in this amp. The Trace is basically a Vox AC15 clone. Gibson bought Trace several years ago and continued making it wrapped in Gibson clothing. I can't remember the model designation that they assigned to it, but it's now been discontinued.
 
I have a motley collection of amps. I love'm all, and try to rotate through the herd as best I can.

70's silverface Fender Champ
Bedrock Royale
Tophat Emplexador 50
Tophat Portly Cadet
Bedrock 1600 combo (two separate pre-amps. Two!)
Pignose portable
Crate cr-1rd
Hiwatt lead 50r
80's Roland Cube 100 keyboard amp
SWR 1x10 bass amp

I have a Tophat 2x12 cab and a Grendel iso box for crankage, a Bullfrog 4x12 to jam with down at a buddies house.

I gotta say the Emplexador was big bucks, but the best amp that I've ever played through and should last the rest of my life. Sadly, I've got to sell a couple of these, but I think I'll probably survive. :)

I've read some of the Crate dissing here, and agree. However, the old wooden one that I have has a decent Eminence speaker in it, stock to the amp, and makes for an excellent second speaker when I record two amps as stereo. I like it a lot, but typically not as the go-to guy for main parts.
 
MrStitch said:
Didn't Dime Bag Darryl (spell check that) play a solid state? Don't remember the brand off hand, and I could be wrong.
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Yup!

He played Randall Solid State, as have a lot of Bands.

Now, I'm a Mesa guy, to me there is no alternative, but I will tell you that I think Randall makes the best sounding solid state I have ever heard.

Mind you they are mainly for metal. So they are kind of one trick ponies. But they do that one trick exceptionally well.
 
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Dime also used Krank Amplification before his untimeley death.
which is all tube amp but I think he perferred the Randall amp over the Krank.

And ... Ya I am a Mesa guy also
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Just got new little Vox amp

i found a 7 year old Vox Cambridge 15 in the box and had to give 150 bucks for it. It was played four times, and then stuck in a closet. It sounds pretty good for a little teeny thing!
It has a Celestion Bulldog speaker in it, and it has built in Tremelo, that even sounds pretty good. Any one else ever played with one?

JasonBird
 
Studio use only here but I have a Twin reverb. Tele sounds great through it and so does the Rhodes or anything else for that matter. Also have a Fender Champ, Vox AD60 VTX (nice amp) and a Silvertone. I love them all.
 
sarge117 said:
Yup!

He played Randall Solid State, as have a lot of Bands.

Now, I'm a Mesa guy, to me there is no alternative, but I will tell you that I think Randall makes the best sounding solid state I have ever heard.

Mind you they are mainly for metal. So they are kind of one trick ponies. But they do that one trick exceptionally well.
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Mesa guy myself. However, I have to agree with your view on the Randall.
 
Have a small collection of amps.

Matchless SC30 (original Matchless Company)
1964 Fender Champ (Tweed circuit in black tolex with a Weber speaker)
1983 SuperChamp
Late 60s Ampeg B15N Fliptop (bass amp, but guitars sound great through it too)
Ultrasound AG-50D (acoustic guitar amp)
Roland KC-150 (actually for my synth)
 
I have a hand-full of amps but my favorite is a Dean Markley RM - 80 - SR head that I picked up used for $125.00 about ten years ago. It's a hybrid that was made in the 80s when the company was flirting with higher wattage guitar amps.

I run it into two EV 1X12 hand-made cabs. I love its clean sound but the OD channel is weak. I usually but a Boss CS-3 and a Tube Screamer in the signal chain and I'm set to go. About three years ago I was surprised to see a complimentary article about this amp in G.P. magazine.
 
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