amps from back in the day!

[mmorse]

pre CBS Bandmaster with matching 212 cab.

 

[barnesjd]

Cool old thread...

My first was a Carvin acoustic guitar amp... because an amp is just supposed to make my electric guitar sound loud after I run it through my metal distortion pedal right??

Once Mr. Willy here on RT taught me where tone comes from, I bought a DSL100

 

[jlbaxe]

My first amp was a Peavey Bandit 75. First guitar was a '74 Les Paul Custom that I paid $400 for. I wish they were still that cheap!

I had the peavey bandit 65 (12" black widow speaker ??? ) and ibanez Black RG550

Rock on 80's

 

[chaosmonger]

I basically went through almost all of the Peavey light blue stripe series:

- Rage 108 (not 158)
- Studio Pro 110
- Special 112

Then I got a JCM900 Dual Reverb 4100, and then good tube amps until now.

 

[glassjaw7]

I think my very first amp was a solid state Fender combo with an 8" speaker (forgot the model).

First tube amp was Carvin MTS3200 halfstack. It was actually a pretty good amp.

 

[guitarmike]

My first amp was a Stage 400:


It did not sound nearly as good as it looked!

Then I bought a Marshall:

From that point til now I probably had 40 different amps.

 

[thisguy]

My first amp was a Marshall Lead 12. I still play it today. It has had no problems in 26 years. Next was a 50w JCM800 and I don't have that anymore.

The same and my second amp was a Randall rg50 combo. I wish I still had them.

Not mine in the photo.

 

[stdio]

Started out with a Roland Cube 60, great little amp with reverb and chorus built in.

 

[mooncobra]

peavey backstage plus

 

[skoora]

Some Ross combo and a Pro Co Rat pedal. First Marshall was a used Mosfet 100 combo. Couldn't afford a Marshall in Australia so didn't own one until coming to the States in '89.

 

[IndyWS6]

A 10-watt Peavey amp (can't remember the name). It wasn't loud enough so I quickly shuffled it out and got a Peavey Roadmaster head and a Carvin 4x12 cabinet. It had a crazy amount of power (160 watts?). Because that's what you need when you can't play for shit; lot's of volume

 

[jlbaxe]

It had a crazy amount of power (160 watts?). Because that's what you need when you can't play for shit; lot's of volume

 

[Zachman]

1st amp: Fender Princeton Reverb '78

 

[rottingcorpse]

Ok, I can't believe I am going to admit this....

In the late 80s I ran a tube screamer into an original old school gorilla that had the 12vdc adapter, into an old peavey p.a. head to power two super oversized homemade 4x12 made from stolen roof decking plywood. It was meth-head tweaker getto at its best. So lucky I never wound up in prison...not for the drugs or theft, but for the abuse of tone.

 

[Oblivion DC]

Mine was a Marlboro practice amp and a Muff Fuzz distortion.....first amp big enough to play with a band was a Yamaha G100 2-10 combo and an EH Hot Tubes Distortion pedal (I wish I still had that pedal). That amp had problems cutting out so I ended up trading it for a Marshall 50 watt SS combo and eventually added a Sound City 4-12 cabinet.

Oh yeah! Me too. Marlboro what a sweet amp that was... Truthfully as bad as that amp was, it was probably as good as I deserved at the time. No pedals, no gain coupled with horrible technique. It was almost a relief when one of my cousins knocked it over and broke out the 1/4" jack.

2nd amp - JCM800 2203 halfstack - sure wish I still had that one.

 

[HilltopExplosion]

Ok, I can't believe I am going to admit this....

In the late 80s I ran a tube screamer into an original old school gorilla that had the 12vdc adapter, into an old peavey p.a. head to power two super oversized homemade 4x12 made from stolen roof decking plywood. It was meth-head tweaker getto at its best. So lucky I never wound up in prison...not for the drugs or theft, but for the abuse of tone.

 

[JackBootedThug]

martin stinger.