ShanPeyton
Member
I wish i could say i was kidding Bob.
Tadpui
Well-known member
I had to look around to get the model number, but my first amp was one of these:
It was possibly the worst amplifier known to humankind. The "tube stack" knob introduced this indescribable distortion...I don't think that it has ever been reproduced by another circuit on purpose. And thank goodness. It was awful.
It was possibly the worst amplifier known to humankind. The "tube stack" knob introduced this indescribable distortion...I don't think that it has ever been reproduced by another circuit on purpose. And thank goodness. It was awful.
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Greg_L
Banned
My first "amp" was actually my dad's stereo. It had a mic input and I'd plug into it. I didn't know how to play anything so I just made noises with a spark plug socket over my finger like a slide. Then one day while doing that through some headphones, I realized that if I turned the cans all the way up and set them on the ground they distorted and were loud enough to hear it. Bam. Greg's first distortion.
Tadpui
Well-known member
Haha, the old hi-fi system as an amp. If I'd only thought to crank it through the headphones!
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Greg_L
Banned
Lol. My first "recordings" were equally as janky. I'd record some drums into a boombox. Play the tape of the drums through the hi-fi and set the boombox with a new tape next to a speaker. I'd record the drums from the speaker into the boombox while I played bass in the room. Then I'd take the drums/bass tape, play it through the hi-fi, put the boombox next to a speaker with a third tape, and play guitar in the room while the drums/bass recorded into the boombox. Then I'd have drums, bass, and guitar recorded onto one tape. Take that tape, repeat the process, and sing into the boombox. I'd eventually have a very rudimentary "multitrack" mix. Obviously they sounded shitty. But I got to a point where I knew exactly how to set everything and where so I'd get a marginally listenable mix.
Tadpui
Well-known member
That sounds very similar to my first recordings. In middle school I had 2 boomboxes. So I'd record myself playing guitar, play that back and record myself playing along with it on the other boombox. Repeat until I had a few tracks built up. My friends and classmates were very impressed at the time
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Greg_L
Banned
That sounds very similar to my first recordings. In middle school I had 2 boomboxes. So I'd record myself playing guitar, play that back and record myself playing along with it on the other boombox. Repeat until I had a few tracks built up. My friends and classmates were very impressed at the time
Yup, same thing. That's about how I did it.
Later on I got fancier - my best friend was my drummer and his dad was the pastor of a church. We'd steal his keys at night, enter the church, and record ourselves live through their PA and equipment. We made about 500 tapes of punk rock covers in a gigantic church in the middle of the night for about 3 or 4 years...then we got caught. God didn't seem to mind, but my friend's dad was not happy. I'm still good friends with that dude to this day.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Fortunately for you the grumpy, genocidal bastard is very unlikely to exist!
They sound like awesome nights of recording. We just had my grandmas garage and frequent visits off the police.
minerman
Tonetard
My first amp was one of these:
I got it when I was about 13-14 for Christmas....Believe it or not, I've played gigs with one of those Gorilla amps before, it was a tad bigger, but not much...
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Mom & Dad bought me a Marshall Micro-Stack when I was about 16, & I actually used those little 1x10 cabs gigging for a pretty good while...Believe it or not, they actually sounded pretty decent, until I blew the speakers up with a 100w Randall head..
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I got it when I was about 13-14 for Christmas....Believe it or not, I've played gigs with one of those Gorilla amps before, it was a tad bigger, but not much...
. Mom & Dad bought me a Marshall Micro-Stack when I was about 16, & I actually used those little 1x10 cabs gigging for a pretty good while...Believe it or not, they actually sounded pretty decent, until I blew the speakers up with a 100w Randall head..
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JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
My first amp was a hohner Panther
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JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
http://www.bazaar-world.com/uploads/amp/51/370144253881-1.jpg
Followed by one of these:
http://img.class.posot.es/en_gb/201...c-Keyboard-Vocal-Amplifier-20150416040609.jpg
Which was the weirdest amp I've ever owned. No reverb, very basic EQ but three inputs all sharing the same EQ and master volume. I used to think a Boss HM-2 going into this thing sounded like the dogs bollocks.
Followed by one of these:
http://img.class.posot.es/en_gb/201...c-Keyboard-Vocal-Amplifier-20150416040609.jpg
Which was the weirdest amp I've ever owned. No reverb, very basic EQ but three inputs all sharing the same EQ and master volume. I used to think a Boss HM-2 going into this thing sounded like the dogs bollocks.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
My second amp was this Kustom rig with 6 15"s in it.
2 cabs with 3x15 each abd a head.
There are two rigs like mine here ..... mine was black and the head was the size of the small one you see sitting on top although I remember mine having 4 knobs on each side unlike that one that has 3 on one side.
It actually was a pretty bad ass bass rig.
We put it against an Acoustic 360 which was the mack daddy of bass amps when it came out and the Kuston kept up fine.
But it had 6 15"s as opposed to a single 18".
2 cabs with 3x15 each abd a head.
There are two rigs like mine here ..... mine was black and the head was the size of the small one you see sitting on top although I remember mine having 4 knobs on each side unlike that one that has 3 on one side.
It actually was a pretty bad ass bass rig.
We put it against an Acoustic 360 which was the mack daddy of bass amps when it came out and the Kuston kept up fine.
But it had 6 15"s as opposed to a single 18".
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Greg_L
Banned
Ha, yeah, I've had some weird crap amps too. I still have one of them, and it's cleans are actually really good. I never use it though. It's out in my garage.
I think that is bad ass. I love those old Silvertone weirdo amps.
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Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
man ...... those days were so much fun.
I had a young musician last year .... well, in his late 20's, young to me .... anyway, he told me there was no fun left in music anymore because we old guys had used it all up!
We certainly tried!
I had a young musician last year .... well, in his late 20's, young to me .... anyway, he told me there was no fun left in music anymore because we old guys had used it all up!
We certainly tried!
Tadpui
Well-known member
Damn, that bass rig is a tower of power! Were you playing stadiums or something?
I envision your stage setup looking like the inside of a padded cell, with all of that Kustom kit.
I envision your stage setup looking like the inside of a padded cell, with all of that Kustom kit.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
lol ....... it was only 100 watts RMS if I remember correctly.Damn, that bass rig is a tower of power! Were you playing stadiums or something?
I envision your stage setup looking like the inside of a padded cell, with all of that Kustom kit.
And carrying it around wasn't easy either ..... I'd have to slide one into my Pontiac Ventura and then slide that one up on top of the back of the front seat and slide the other cab in underneath it.
Clubs were all decent size in those days in Louisiana and decent amps were big so it wasn't out of place.
My next bass rig after that was a Kasino and they had the power amps built into the speaker cabs ...... active speakers as it were WAY before anyone had active speakers.
So you caould add as many cabs and as much power as you wanted.
Let's see ......... ah this!
The middle section is the bass rig ...... then you could add powered cabs that looked the same but were a bit shorter with no knobs since they were just slaved to the main section.
