Liking the hell outta my Ampeg ReverbRocket

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Lt. Bob

Lt. Bob

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I have a bunch 'o' amps (14 of them) and the last year or two I've been predominately using my Mesa Mark V or my Mesa Blue Angel.

But I got bored and decided a month ago to use a different amp every night just for the hell of it and because they need to be used some to stay healthy.
Ampeg V-2 into a 10" .............. very nice!
Orange Tiny Terror into the same 10" ..... pretty middy but decent when I just leave my clean boost with tone controls on all the time.

Ampeg Reverbrocket re-issue ....... WHOAH! Why did I quit using this again?
And that's where I stopped for the time being. :)

Man .... what a nice amp. I have one from the first year when they used EL34's instead of the 6L6's they went to after that and this thing sings!
Most important to me is it has this super twangy clean that stays clean even on the lowest notes. No bass mushiness at all. It actually has a nicer clean than either of my Mesa's.
I think the reason I quit using it was that it got dirty too quickly but that was in Baton Rouge where all my gigs were much louder. Over here in Fl. I never need much volume and this thing is the first time I've had an amp deliver "chime" as a fundamental part of it's tone.

Way nice ...... the 'verb is 'meh' but I have a TC Electronics Hall of Fame reverb for that.
I'm really digging on this amp and was pretty surprised by that.

:)
 
Very cool! Don't you just love "re-discovering" a sweet piece of gear?
 
new for free... has a nice ring to it.

the TC Electronics Hall of Fame Reverb unit sounds like a favorite too. i'll go read up on that one, sounds interesting.

So just curious, if you were going through all 14 of them...but you stopped, at what number were you?

And will you resume through to the 14th one?
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CoolCat said:
new for free... has a nice ring to it.

the TC Electronics Hall of Fame Reverb unit sounds like a favorite too. i'll go read up on that one, sounds interesting.

So just curious, if you were going through all 14 of them...but you stopped, at what number were you?

And will you resume through to the 14th one?
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I will ..... I'm just enjoying this one right now.

And counting the two Mesas that I have been using the last year that would make the Reverbrocket number .....5.
And the Hall of Fame is an awesome 'verb pedal ... good enough to use in the studio for other things including vox.
It has 10 different verbs including a really good spring reverb but I mostly leave it on the church setting which is a nice deep verb.
It's one of those pedals you just leave on all the time 'cause it makes everything mo' better.
Sometimes I'll dial back the verb all the way but still leave it on. It does something good to the EQ.
 
Damn . . . that's one sweet little amp!!

I missed out on one of the originals by about an hour or two that was for sale locally. The guy was asking $175 for it, and by the time I could wake up and send an E-Mail . . . . pfft . . . gone. I would love to have one of those. Fantastic blues amps.

Suds . . .
 
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