In your opinion what are the best guitar amps ever made? My two personal favorites are rock standards ...the Marshall Super Lead Plexi 100 watter, and the venerable Fender Twin. All others are imitators and wannabes.
The rules for this are as follows...
Your selection must be an all tube amplifier, combo or head/cab.
No modelling amplifiers can be listed
No solid state amps!!!!
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Marshall JCM 900 SL-X
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Originally posted by BrownSound1
In your opinion what are the best guitar amps ever made? My two personal favorites are rock standards ...the Marshall Super Lead Plexi 100 watter, and the venerable Fender Twin. All others are imitators and wannabes.
The rules for this are as follows...
Your selection must be an all tube amplifier, combo or head/cab.
No modelling amplifiers can be listed
No solid state amps!!!!
Agree 100% with the addition of the Marshall JCM800....
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For bass: Ampeg pro2 & pro4 both kick ass.
JCM 900
and
Peavey 5150 ll
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Haven't even thought about another amp after getting my JCM 900 100-watt head.............10+ years ago!
Marshall studio 15, aka 4001
JCM800's for sure
Mesa-Boogie Dual Recto
Soldano SLO 100
The Marshall Super Lead Plexi 100 watter is definately in there, also the Vox AC30 (I've had some killer sounds out of those things).
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I wondered how long before someone threw out a Vox AC30.
The Soldano Lucky 13 was the best amp i ever owned and used until it died.
I have never been a Marshall fan for some reason.
Originally posted by BrownSound1
I wondered how long before someone threw out a Vox AC30.
me too. great amps.
tweed bassmans sound great.
marshalls jubilee series is sadly underrated.
i've had some cool old peavy amps too.
i had this 70's thing with 4 6l6's, fuck it was loud!
Most of the Marshalls I've owned have been quirky bastards. Just think of it like a woman, she has her ups and downs, but if you treat her good she'll moan for you all night.Originally posted by Cathedral
The Soldano Lucky 13 was the best amp i ever owned and used until it died.
I have never been a Marshall fan for some reason.
For clean tones ----> (vintage) Fender Deluxe Reverb
Overdrive----> various Marshalls (if the AMP is having a good night)
For all around ---> the new Traynor combos
I´ve owned tons of amps.
The only ones I´m sure I´ll never ever sell are my 2 1971 Marshall MKII 100w Super Bass heads and my 1971 Marshall MKII 100w Super Lead head.
Especially the Super Basses rock like nothing else!
Gorilla practice amp. Tube Crunch, Baby!
kidding...
I can't believe there hasn't been a mention of HiWatt amps or Mesa/Boogie. Actually I can't stand Mesa/Boogie amps so I'm not too upset about that.
Peavy is always good for bass. Problem is, you gotta get the larger ones because those to me are the better ones. Personally, I use a small Traynor to practice on.
My favorite amp was an original military wired Hiwatt 100. I actually rattled the drywall loose from the screws with that thing. Push it with a good overdrive or fuzz and it's a fucking monster. The clean sound is heaven. Think The Who or Pink Floyd.
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Thing about Peavey bass amps...well all of the ones I can think of are solid state, and thus don't qualify. Plus, the Ampeg SVT is probably the pinnacle of tube bass amps...although there are some others that are badass.Originally posted by RuzDNailz
Peavy is always good for bass. Problem is, you gotta get the larger ones because those to me are the better ones. Personally, I use a small Traynor to practice on.
You nut, I said Mesa weeks ago. Look up.Originally posted by BrownSound1
I can't believe there hasn't been a mention of HiWatt amps or Mesa/Boogie. Actually I can't stand Mesa/Boogie amps so I'm not too upset about that.
You know...as soon as I saw you had posted again I remembered that you said the Dual Recto. Ok...so I'm surprised there hasn't been MORE mention of Mesa/Boogie.
These cheap fuckers can't afford them that's why.
JCM 800
Seven years and still going strong. But I wish I could find a combo that sounds as good as this thing.
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1986 Mesa MKIII red stripe, simul-class. Heaven and Hell, baby.
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Peavy stereo chorus 212 combo that is what i use, and to add volume out goes to the crate g212 xl
it works for me
1994 Fender Blues Deluxe. Best tone I've ever had with an axe.
I like the Bad Cat Hell Cat for a boutique amp
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The Marshall Plexi Super Lead is a great one, and you can't go wrong with a Fender Twin for cleans...
The Mesa Boogie MK IIC+ is also great...
Carvin x-100b used by Zappa,Vai
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Amen to that brotha..took me 2 years to find one..and i ain't ever selling it
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The Carvin stock, is a tone-filtered noisey mess of an amp.
Vai and Zappa wouldn't use them stock! And they didn't.
my gallery of greats would include a couple solid-states, but that's another thead altogether.
My first amp: Harmony 300.. 12BH7A (awesome little output tube), 50C5 and a little 35W4 rectifier tube. Super simple, 6 inch speaker, Made in Japan in the 60s and there's tons of em around
Marshall Super Lead/Plexi. #1 in my book. There are a lot of amps I like, such as the Marshall 6100 LSM, JSX (my current amp), JCM 800 2210, etc. But the Plexi is the shit
Hard to beat a Marshall Triple Super Lead for crunch and balls.
For pure tone, its gotta be a Fender Twin Reverb, blackface, or a Fender Super Reverb. Also dig the Vibrolux.
I have two Marshall heads, a JMP and an 800 both severely modded.
Fuck stock amps! I'll be adding two more stock Marshall heads, just running as slaves to the other two, but not for tone.
The Twin and Super are basic classics, though. They recorded probably 80 percent of American radio hits, but it was the British amps that changed the world.
My wish list currently is for a set of 4 heads from either Reeves or Fryette.
Reeves is like a modern Hiwatt, and a Fryette is the former VHT engineer Steve Fryette in Burbank who makes a mutha of a Hiwatt on steroids.. both botique, both handwired but the Fryette has a few more options like better channel switching.
If you run four heads, chaining the switching is a vital and welcome option.
Twins and Supers plus a tube screamer equals SRV sound!
No probs with the british amps. I love the VOX AC 30, and Marshall 900, Marshall Bluesbreaker, Bad Cats, Orange, and Laney. Hiwatts are a nice amp as are the original Kustom Tuck and Roll amps. For my money, its either Fender or Marshall.
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