Your first amp?

[Tedster]

My first real amp...

 

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I got it quite a bit after my first electric guitar. Matter of fact, I think I went through at least two electrics, borrowing amps when I could, before I got this.

[AeroG33k]

I had a peavy transtrube 258efx when I had my G-400, which i got for my 15th birthday. Sold my G-400 last year for my Schecter and my peavy a few months ago to get a my curent amp (the one seen on the left here) for my 19th birthday. I fell in love with the amp at a store and had to get it.

[pollock]

Mine was a 15W peavey practice amp. It started my love for peavey amps.

[henrysb3]

Silvertone Twin Twelve head and a home-made 4X12 box loaded with Jensens. I still have both of them, though the amp doesn't work anymore after the power transformer did a melt down. Hi, Ted.

[picker]

A Heathkit solid state 1X12 combo my father and I put together from a kit. It never did work exactly right, but it had reverb for days. After that, I had a Pignose for a few years, then a silverface master volume Twin Reverb with the pull-out distortion(which sucked beyond belief.) I don't have any of them now, and the only one I miss is the Pignose.

[Tedster]

Hi Henry!!!

 

Hey, we're doing the barbecue contest again this year...Aug. 18th...from 4-6:30 pm. And Molly and I are playing the Elms Gazebo this Friday from 2-6 for the Gregg Williams Celebrity Charity Auction.

 

And I gotta make it out to Topeka one of these days! What's the haps out that way??

[The Geoff]

Mine was a Watkins Westminster (I think!) 15 watt valve amp with (again I think) a single 10" speaker - about 1962.

 

G.

[henrysb3]

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I'm floored that it's been almost a year since the BBQ/ Freight Train Storm Cloud rendevous, Ted. In the meantime, I have retired and bought a travel trailer just before gas prices went into orbit. I may check campgrounds in the Excelsior area and spend a day there, then go to Iowa to see my friends up there. I marked the date (a Friday) on my calendar. I get witchya later.

 

Oh, yeah, I'm going to be headed for the Dallas area Friday, so sorry, I'll miss that.

[Gifthorse]

Peavey Decade--used to turn it up to 10 thinking it would sound better loud--not the case.

 

 

OK here is the list, even tho it isn't required.

 

 

Second amp, Peavey Renown 400--god did this suck

 

Third-- Randall RG head--solid state poo

 

Fourth- Peavey Triumph--cool cheap combo for the time

 

Fifth- Peavey VTM--very cool amp, even today. I think this and the Classic are the best amps Peavey has made to date. But I have heard that Peavey doesn't run the plate voltage hot enough to OD the power section. I vaguely understand but I am an electronics ingoramous. My buddy told me they save money on the output transformers and use cheap ones. In a Marshall, this is (i think) the most expensive part.

 

Sixth-- Peavey Classic

 

Seventh--Traynor, VOX AC 30 (very cool), THD Bivalve---this is the best amp I have ever owned. Sounds unbelievable and has lots of cool features. I will never go back to Peavey or any preamp based distortion.

[Tedster]

Heya Henry...

 

If you're looking for campgrounds in the Excelsior area... Watkins Mill State Park is the place...right outside of Excelsior.

 

I also have trailer amenities at the farm, electric, septic, water...if you wish...

[henrysb3]

Both options sound good, Ted. I'm already excited. This time I'll have some instruments.

[revolead]

Originally posted by Tedster:

Hi Henry!!!

 

Hey, we're doing the barbecue contest again this year...Aug. 18th...from 4-6:30 pm. And Molly and I are playing the Elms Gazebo this Friday from 2-6 for the Gregg Williams Celebrity Charity Auction.

 

And I gotta make it out to Topeka one of these days! What's the haps out that way??

Damnit, Ted, you had to do it three days late. I'm gonna be swinging right through KC on my way home from Pitt on the 15th. Oh, well.

 

Anyway, on topic, it was a Peavey 15W practice amp. It served its purpose.

[D_dup3]

Some Traynor model c.1968...

 

Soon as I could I moved to a Fender Twin & then a Bassman.

Picker mentioned his Pignose & they were very impressive but my battery powered amp was a "Mighty Atom" c.1975.

What a blatty sound!

[Tedster]

Geez, Revo...gimme a holler anyhoo...if you're up for a pit stop here in KC we'll get together and do some barbecue or something.

[S. Yeti Bigfoot, Esq.]

1st one was designed by my dad and built by the two of us. No reverb or anything like that, but it would overdrive like a demon.

 

2nd one was built into the guitar case.

 

3rd one was a Fender Twin Reverb that I bought from a kid for $100.00. He also sold me an old Strat for $125.00 and threw in an old MusicMaster (I think?..maybe a DuoSonic) for free, which I sold for about $75.00. That was around 1967.

[King Kamehameha]

Okay, I already posted my first guitar amp on the first guitar thread (a Fender Deluxe Hotrod (I dig the tubetastic sound)), and my first bass amp was a Crate MXB10, a little more than a foot tall, I think. I keep it up in my room because I have lessons on the lower level and you do NOT want to lug a Line6 LD150 up and down the stairs, even if it's once a week---trust me.

[Big Red 67]

My first real amp was a pro junior. Had a '72 twin and a '68 bassman before that but had no idea what to do with them. Bought to invest in them, just never really played them that much (was a bassplayer messing with guitar). I plugged in to the junior and became a guitar player, that OH that how the get that sound moment. So I really consider that my first guitar amp. I now know what to do with the others.

[rotosound45]

My first amp was some MOS-FET thing from Sears that had some kicking "surfer" reverb. I honestly cannot remember for the life of me what happened to that amp.

 

Then came the Peavey Studio Pro 40 with it's glorious Saturation knob.

 

Then came a blackface Fender Bassman 50 head with a matching 2x12 cabinet. This sounded very good with my old Pro-Co Rat pedal. Wish I had this one back.

[rw2003]

My first amp was a no-name low-watt tube amp combo with a 1x12 speaker configuration. It was given to me by a friend who wasn't using it. Tha amp was probably made in the 60's and had great tone, specially with the volume turned up all the way. I giged with it (miked of course) for a few years unitl it would overheat and shut off. I later pulled the chassis out of the cabinet and used it as a speaker cab and drove it with a marshall head. I ended up leaving the amp up in college after I graduated.

 

I wish I still had the amp... I would have had it fixed. It a had a warm tone that I still use tojudge other amps by.

[Greg B.]

Mine was a little all tube Kalamazoo (I think) that my brother and I got at a garage sale in about 1978 with a '58-'59 Les Paul Jr.-$10 for both!! All I remember about it was that it had only a volume knob and if we turned it up all of the way, hit the B & high E strings together, it sounded like KISS! The amp finally gave up, the guitar...that's another story all together.

 

Didn't play for about 5-6 years after that, then got a Kingston with a knob that turned it off & on and was also the volume. Total piece of crap! It kinda quit working, but I found that if I wedged a screw driver handle between the knob and the side of the cabinet, it worked. It also didn't sound too bad with my Marshall Guv'nor, because of the break up in the speaker.

[Dr. Ellwood]

My first amp was a Webcore tape recorder! my second amp was a Ampeg ReverbaRocket.

[miroslav]

Not 100% sure if it was my first amp...

 

...but it's the oldest one I got.

 

My Traynor Mark 3 w/412 cab.

 

Bought it new in '75...still plays like a champ!

[LPCustom]

My first amp was a Sears Silvertone. 10 watts (I think), tubes and a 10 inch speaker. It sounded like crap. Probably because it was crap.

 

My second amp was an ancient (63, I think, maybe 64) blackface Fender Vibrolux that I got in 1974. I still kick myself for selling that when I bought my JCM800. But I needed the money.

[Big Red 67]

One of the things I remember is the amps I did play guitar through back in the day sounded like crap to me. That is why I chose to play bass. Then bass amps sounded better then the guitar amps I heard most.

[Hardtail]

I had a cheap amp to go along with my cheap Magnum guitar. I think the brand was "Stage". It was a piece of shit but it helped me drive the neighbors crazy with my endless practices of "The Ocean" and "Smoke on the Water".

[Pappy P]

Music Man 100 212

[Guitar55]

A blackface Fender Princeton (sigh) I wish I still had it!

[GuitarPlayerFL]

1976 Alamo tube amp w/ 12" speaker.

[A McLeod III]

I had one of those Alamo Challengers-It had one 6L6GC in it, 12AX7 for the pre and some kind of rectifier in it. Had a 10 inch speaker. Actually sounded decent as long as you didn't turn it up really loud. Later in life, I discovered that people actually paid money to get that "tube driver" sound. My dad bought me a Melodier SG Copy to go with that thing. "Those were the days!"

[alittlebatty]

Mine was a little Loco practice amp made by Aria...I still have it but it needs work!