TheGuitarMan
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Doug Quance said:
I want to get one of those. I figure I could pick up a wee headphone guitar amp and plug that into the Pignose. That would be pretty cool.
I want to get one of those. I figure I could pick up a wee headphone guitar amp and plug that into the Pignose. That would be pretty cool.
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Bob A. Vader
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guitar-kustom practice amp 16 watter i believe
bass-gorilla practice amp-not sure what size too lazy to look
yes...i still have them....i have only been doing this for a little more than a year
can someone give me like a $10,000 loan so i can get some good equipment
bass-gorilla practice amp-not sure what size too lazy to look
yes...i still have them....i have only been doing this for a little more than a year
can someone give me like a $10,000 loan so i can get some good equipment
moskus
The Creator of Æ, Ø and Å
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James Argo
Fancy Rock N' Roll
bump!
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ignastyo
New member
I actually still have mine, it's a peavey with 2 6" speakers. I'm surprized the speakers still work, theres like a 1 inch empty space around where the edge of the speakers used to be. I used to plug bass into that, maybe that wasn't such a good idea
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Mastabeta 57
New member
ahh my first amp...
Viking "Solid State" model G1
This amp was one I found in my Grandparents house, estimated to be over 40 years old. I still love the sound it makes when I play the blues
Now I cart around a Fender Automatic GT, great quality amp for the money.
Im need help deciding on a bass amp, I havent realy decided if im going combo or not, anybody use the Fender bassman 400?
Viking "Solid State" model G1
This amp was one I found in my Grandparents house, estimated to be over 40 years old. I still love the sound it makes when I play the blues
Now I cart around a Fender Automatic GT, great quality amp for the money.
Im need help deciding on a bass amp, I havent realy decided if im going combo or not, anybody use the Fender bassman 400?
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gtar02
New member
my parents got me a fender mini-twin when I got my first electric guitar. I ended up with a couple of free crate practice amps too.
Now I have a traynor ycv-40. It sounds great.
Now I have a traynor ycv-40. It sounds great.
c7sus
Disenfranchised Member
First amp was a tiny little thing called a "Knight" or something like that. Maybe 5 watts.
When I was in 8th grade I saved my paper route money and bought a Fender Super Showman for $450! Full stack! One cab had beautiful 12" Utahs with aluminum cones, the other stock Fenders. Anybody ever play with one of these? It was SS, the amps were built into the cabinets. It was a fucking beast. I think that's where most of my hearing went.
I played the Star Spangled Banner on my cheap Jap guitar at an 8th-grade program, you know, where the parents come to see what talentless kids they have begotten. Used that amp in a high-school production of "Godspell" that I played guitar in the band on, too.
Bet you didn't expect that!
I put it up for consignment so I could get some bread for a car when I was 17. Somebody broke into the music store and stole the preamp, but left the cabs. Worked out to be faster than selling it was!
About 1980 or so I bought a 70-71 (?) Twin Reverb. CBS Silverface with the push/pull Master Volume. I've had it ever since. Needs to be throughly gone through. No more clean tones at all, everything a little too fuzzy anymore.
When I was in 8th grade I saved my paper route money and bought a Fender Super Showman for $450! Full stack! One cab had beautiful 12" Utahs with aluminum cones, the other stock Fenders. Anybody ever play with one of these? It was SS, the amps were built into the cabinets. It was a fucking beast. I think that's where most of my hearing went.
I played the Star Spangled Banner on my cheap Jap guitar at an 8th-grade program, you know, where the parents come to see what talentless kids they have begotten. Used that amp in a high-school production of "Godspell" that I played guitar in the band on, too.Bet you didn't expect that!
I put it up for consignment so I could get some bread for a car when I was 17. Somebody broke into the music store and stole the preamp, but left the cabs. Worked out to be faster than selling it was!
About 1980 or so I bought a 70-71 (?) Twin Reverb. CBS Silverface with the push/pull Master Volume. I've had it ever since. Needs to be throughly gone through. No more clean tones at all, everything a little too fuzzy anymore.
Toki987
Rock Steady
Re: Re: Great thread!
would you possibly be willing to part with that rcb?
Mine has ailments.
Doug Quance said:
would you possibly be willing to part with that rcb?
Mine has ailments.
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jinker
New member
My first amp was a Laney AOR Series 30w combo. It's all tube, 2x6L6 2x12AT7 and 2X12AX7 with a single 12" Fane speaker. Bought it new in 1984 and I still have it and use it to this day. It's great for recording because you can really saturate the power tubes without it getting too unbearably loud (but it is quite a loud little blighter....)
Being a Sabbath / Iommi disciple is what turned me on to Laney, because that it what he has used for the vast majority of his career. Now that I'm a little older and have access to more money, I splurged a couple of years ago and bought myself a new Laney VC50 combo. It's a 2x12" combo and I bought the 2x12" extension cab, so it's pretty much like having a 50w head and a 4x12" cab running at 4ohms. This damn thing will take the paint off the walls at 10 paces. With both pre-amps cranked up and the master at just 4, you can barely stand to be in front of it. If you're into that kind of sound, it's positively a religious experience. They make a 100w version which is basically the same thing with two more power tubes. I've played one of their 100w heads in a full stack and it will make every hair on your body stand up.
Here's my rig:
http://66.89.105.246/Cary/my_amp.jpg
There was also "one that got away" in my life. My brother had acquired and old Ampeg Rocket. I'm not sure what year it was made, but I'm thinking early 60's. It was a 1x12" Class A combo. It didn't work and he just used it as a speaker cab. Well, he moved on to newer stuff and I grabbed the Rocket after it had sit in the basement for years. I re-tubed it, stipped the canvas covering from the hardwood combo cab, sanded it down and re-finished it with a nice lacquer. It looked really cool and sounded absolutely amazing. My little Laney has a DI output jack and I used to run it into the Rocket. The pre-amped signal into the saturated, Class A power tubes of the Rocket was just heavenly. The harmonics and the feedback and the sustain......ahhhh. Well, to make a long story short, when my brother saw what I had done to the amp, he wanted it back and, unfortunately ended up hocking it not too long after. I never saw it again......
Being a Sabbath / Iommi disciple is what turned me on to Laney, because that it what he has used for the vast majority of his career. Now that I'm a little older and have access to more money, I splurged a couple of years ago and bought myself a new Laney VC50 combo. It's a 2x12" combo and I bought the 2x12" extension cab, so it's pretty much like having a 50w head and a 4x12" cab running at 4ohms. This damn thing will take the paint off the walls at 10 paces. With both pre-amps cranked up and the master at just 4, you can barely stand to be in front of it. If you're into that kind of sound, it's positively a religious experience. They make a 100w version which is basically the same thing with two more power tubes. I've played one of their 100w heads in a full stack and it will make every hair on your body stand up.
Here's my rig:
http://66.89.105.246/Cary/my_amp.jpg
There was also "one that got away" in my life. My brother had acquired and old Ampeg Rocket. I'm not sure what year it was made, but I'm thinking early 60's. It was a 1x12" Class A combo. It didn't work and he just used it as a speaker cab. Well, he moved on to newer stuff and I grabbed the Rocket after it had sit in the basement for years. I re-tubed it, stipped the canvas covering from the hardwood combo cab, sanded it down and re-finished it with a nice lacquer. It looked really cool and sounded absolutely amazing. My little Laney has a DI output jack and I used to run it into the Rocket. The pre-amped signal into the saturated, Class A power tubes of the Rocket was just heavenly. The harmonics and the feedback and the sustain......ahhhh. Well, to make a long story short, when my brother saw what I had done to the amp, he wanted it back and, unfortunately ended up hocking it not too long after. I never saw it again......
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whattaguy
New member
I had a white Peavy Falcon guitar through a little 15 watt Peavy practice amp back in '86. Got a LP Studio in '90 and still played through that little practice amp. Throughout my college days, I started a guitar amp fund with a large jar and pocket change. In '99 cashed my $400 worth of change and bought myself a nice Fender Custom Vibrolux Reverb (I know...a tad more than $400). Now that's what a LP should sound like!
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Dani Pace
New member
Oh my gawd, its hard to remember that far back, oh yeah it was 1965 and it was a Gibson Explorer, 15 watts, all tube, 12 inch speaker, reverb and tremelo, growled like a female dragon in heat, wish I could find another one.
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87PRS
New member
1967 Vox Super Beatle and a Fender Mustang (red one) with vibrato. Several guitars and amps since, now have a PV Delta Blues 30 watt, with 15", reverb and tremolo and 87 PRS Custom, BTW still have my 78 Fender Bassman head and a 64 "Standell" 2-10 cab loaded with original Jensens. First post here, great site.
Toki987
Rock Steady
I was shopping for a new bass amp many yrs ago. A bass player with a 60's band called the Turtles let me play through a Super Beatle. The guitar player and bass player both had em. Cool looking amps, big and sounded good. I bought a Kustom 6 x15" Stereo instead though.
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Major Tom
New member
I was about 16 - 1971, I got my Dad to lend me $250.00 to buy a used SF Super Reverb. It was in pristine condition - don't know what year it was made, probably '68 or '69. The guy also threw in a Mosrite fuzz pedal, it was sweet too. Had them both for a couple years, sold them - still kicking myself.
teknomike
Oldbie
These are great stories !
I had two amps before my first "real" amp.
A "Paul" (10 watt P.O.S.) at 13, then a Farfisa (Fartfeces ) solid state that really sucked (from 15 to 17).
When I was 16/17, I found a 70 Fender Vibrosonic (100 W - 15 " speaker) in the paper, and went to see it. The guy wanted $500 for it - I only had $400. Wouldn't budge.
Couple weekends later I went out shopping. Best thing I found for my money was a Roland Cube 60 (they were brand new that year - 1978/79). I still wanted the Fender, though.
I called the seller up, and as it turned out, he was leaving with the family on a holiday the next day, and needed the money, so I ended up getting it for $425. Still (sort of) have the amp - have never found anything better ! I sold it to a buddy before I left Canada with the understanding that I could buy it back when I returned if I still wanted it. I'm contemplating buying a Cyber Twin ...
mike
I had two amps before my first "real" amp.
A "Paul" (10 watt P.O.S.) at 13, then a Farfisa (Fartfeces
) solid state that really sucked (from 15 to 17).When I was 16/17, I found a 70 Fender Vibrosonic (100 W - 15 " speaker) in the paper, and went to see it. The guy wanted $500 for it - I only had $400. Wouldn't budge.
Couple weekends later I went out shopping. Best thing I found for my money was a Roland Cube 60 (they were brand new that year - 1978/79). I still wanted the Fender, though.
I called the seller up, and as it turned out, he was leaving with the family on a holiday the next day, and needed the money, so I ended up getting it for $425. Still (sort of) have the amp - have never found anything better ! I sold it to a buddy before I left Canada with the understanding that I could buy it back when I returned if I still wanted it. I'm contemplating buying a Cyber Twin ...
mike
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Richard Monroe
Well-known member
Kustom 200- Loud and awful. Now I mostly use Pod Pro into a Carver power amp into a Marshall cab for dirty, and a Strawberry Blonde for clean.-Richie