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  • Nitro Express
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 32942
    #1

    What was your first amplifier?

    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.
    No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
    Tags: amplifier
    • GAR
      Banned
      • Jan 2004
      • 10881
      #2
      Harmony Model 400, then a Silverton e Twin Twelve, modded.

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        • Coyote
          ROTH ARMY SUPREME
          • Jan 2004
          • 8185
          #3
          15w Bomber B-2 solidstate.
          Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?

          Originally posted by Seshmeister
          It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...

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            • 62sg
              Roth Army Recruit
              • Apr 2006
              • 8
              #4
              Started playing in 77' and got a used 'Heath Kit Amp".....actually sounded fairly good and wish I still had it !

              John
              https://www.stoneagecustomcabinets.com
              John

              Turn it up !!!

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                • Last_Child
                  Commando
                  • Oct 2004
                  • 1450
                  #5
                  The one I have now.

                  75w Line 6 Spider 112.
                  "With a rate of fire of over 20 rounds per second, the IMI Micro Uzi is almost as fast as Yngwie Malmsteen, and 25.4 times more musical"

                  Worst of all... It's true..

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                    • Nitro Express
                      DIAMOND STATUS
                      • Aug 2004
                      • 32942
                      #6
                      I remember Heathkit. I built a few Heathkits in the 70's with my dad.
                      No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                        • The_KiD
                          Commando
                          • Jun 2005
                          • 1041
                          #7
                          Still have it.. Fender Frontman..

                          KiD

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                            • jhale667
                              DIAMOND STATUS
                              • Aug 2004
                              • 20929
                              #8
                              Fender Vibro-champ.

                              Originally posted by conmee
                              If anyone even thinks about deleting the Muff Thread they are banned.... no questions asked.

                              That is all.

                              Icon.
                              Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO
                              I've seen prominent hypocrite liberal on this site Jhale667


                              Originally posted by Isaac R.
                              Then it's really true??

                              The Muff Thread is really just GONE ???

                              OMFG...who in their right mind...???
                              Originally posted by eddie78
                              I was wrong about you, brother. You're good.

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                                • sagebrush
                                  Head Fluffer
                                  • Oct 2005
                                  • 353
                                  #9
                                  Old peavey

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                                    • Hardrock69
                                      DIAMOND STATUS
                                      • Feb 2005
                                      • 21897
                                      #10
                                      Music Man 65-watt head and an Acoustic 6 X 10 cabinet.

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                                        • DeadOrAlive
                                          Veteran
                                          • Jul 2004
                                          • 1683
                                          #11
                                          Haha... A dinky Yamaha 10 watter...

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                                            • Gringo
                                              Roadie
                                              • Dec 2005
                                              • 185
                                              #12
                                              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!

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                                                • sadaist
                                                  TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                                                  • Jul 2004
                                                  • 11625
                                                  #13
                                                  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.
                                                  “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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                                                    • ULTRAMAN VH
                                                      Commando
                                                      • May 2004
                                                      • 1480
                                                      #14
                                                      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.

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                                                        • DrMaddVibe
                                                          ROTH ARMY ELITE
                                                          • Jan 2004
                                                          • 6686
                                                          #15
                                                          A monster Westbury!

                                                          Thank God for caster wheels!!!!
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