What was your first amplifier?

[Nitro Express]

Mine was some old tube stereo amp that the power tube plates glowed orange (didn't know about biasing in those days). They were like EL-84 tubes and not the bigger 6L6 tubes. I would just plug the guitar into one channel and run a homemade speaker with a 10 inch Radio Shack speaker. Actually, it sounded pretty good. Then I got a solid state Radio Shack stereo amp and it sounded like shit. I went back the the tube amp. LOL!

My first real guitar amps was a tube powered silver faced Fender Champ. Wish I still had it.

Then I got a solid state Marshal Lead 12. Wish I still had that one too. It was built like a tank and for solid state, sounded good.

[GAR]

Harmony Model 400, then a Silverton e Twin Twelve, modded.

[Coyote]

15w Bomber B-2 solidstate.

[62sg]

Started playing in 77' and got a used 'Heath Kit Amp".....actually sounded fairly good and wish I still had it !

John
www.stoneagecustomcabinets.com

[Last_Child]

The one I have now.

75w Line 6 Spider 112.

[Nitro Express]

I remember Heathkit. I built a few Heathkits in the 70's with my dad.

[The_KiD]

Still have it.. Fender Frontman..

KiD

[jhale667]

Fender Vibro-champ.

http://www.bellflowermusic.com/images/Amps/Fender%20Vibro%20Champ%20amp2.JPG

[sagebrush]

Old peavey

[Hardrock69]

Music Man 65-watt head and an Acoustic 6 X 10 cabinet.

[DeadOrAlive]

Haha... A dinky Yamaha 10 watter...

[Gringo]

My first amp was a Peavey Backstage Plus. This was back in '86. For Christmas that same year i got a Boss Heavy Metal distortion pedal. In the brochure it was different settings for different sounds, and one was the solo for Beat It played by EVH! Of course i didn't get the sound with a Peavey 35 watt and that pedal, but i was hooked on Van Halen! Great!

[sadaist]

A $50 Gorilla Amp. I was so happy that I didn't have to play through my stereo anymore. Some time later I moved up to a Fender Reverb 25. Small, but pretty damn cool.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

My first amp was a Peavey Bandit. Spent most of my teens trying to get the Van Halen 1 sound out of it. Fat chance,but I could not afford a Marshall stack so you deal with what you got. Now that I think back it was a pretty cool amp and sounded great with the help of the old MXR distortion box. I tried every distortion pedal on the planet with that amp. Now that I think about it , all the money I spent on distorion pedals, I probably could have purchased a Marshall Stack. LOL LOL.

[DrMaddVibe]

A monster Westbury!

Thank God for caster wheels!!!!

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by Nitro Express

My first real guitar amps was a tube powered silver faced Fender Champ. Wish I still had it.
My first amp!

And damn, do I also wish I still had it!

[Big Troubles]

piece of crap ViBe...10 watts of distorted shit. Im happy with my Line 6.
Its a 30 watt, 12 inch with 6 effects. Paid $200 and Im loving it. (Well the clean channel is kinda crappy unless you run an external Metal effect thru it)

[eddie007]

My first amp was a Peavey Classic with a built in Phase Shifter ( 50 watt /2 tube)

I bought it after seeing Van Halen open up for Black Sabbath around 78-79 ( Can't remember exact year...I was smokin alot of weed )


We were playing an outdoor graduation party and I had just figuired out ATOMIC PUNK.

We get busted for noise ( I thought it was fine.) right in the middle of that tune and the cops threatened to take my amp!!!!!

....I almost cried in front of my friends!!!

....cool little amp for the time period, wish I had it too !!!!

[Big Troubles]

I'd kill for it. :D no... seriously.

[Matt White]

First real amp was a Peavey Bandit.......

[ELVIS]

Peavey Pacer...

And believe it or not, It sounded pretty good...


http://www.lodestarexpress.com/69/109.jpg


:elvis:

[Drblacwood84]

a 50 watt gorilla

[guwapo_rocker]

Traynor TS50....