Your Best Amp?

[Taylorplayer]

Strictly as it applies to you, what's the best amp that you own? I'm sticking with the Carr Mercury I have. I can get great tone from it - good & crunchy - at quite reasonable volume levels.

What's your favorite amp?

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[SpruceTop]

Nice Carr Amp!

For electrical guitar amplification, I like my Peavey Delta Blues 1 X 15" anchoring-down my Hamer Studio's tones--I'd love to get a Carr or Victoria amp but I don't play electric guitar enough to be compelled to do so. For acoustic guitar, I love my Bose L1 Model II. For great acoustic tone and real ease of mobility, my VOX AGA150 is darn good sounding. There are so many good choices today for both electric and acoustic amplification that it boggles the mind! It's only a matter of money and preference.

Regards,

SpruceTop

[Dru Edwards]

I've got a couple of tube amps for my electrics - Marshall TSL-100 JCM200 and a Traynor YCV-50 (Made in Canada). Both are great but the Marshall takes it into extra distorition territory.

[briggleman]

Well lets see, for the electrics its this bad boy

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s319/briggleman/DSC_2543Large.jpg

For Acoustics

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s319/briggleman/DSC_2542Large.jpg

and then for both I have a booster

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s319/briggleman/DSC_2541Large.jpg

[Taylorplayer]

Nice Carr Amp!

For electrical guitar amplification, I like my Peavey Delta Blues 1 X 15" anchoring-down my Hamer Studio's tones--I'd love to get a Carr or Victoria amp but I don't play electric guitar enough to be compelled to do so. For acoustic guitar, I love my Bose L1 Model II. For great acoustic tone and real ease of mobility, my VOX AGA150 is darn good sounding. There are so many good choices today for both electric and acoustic amplification that it boggles the mind! It's only a matter of money and preference.

Regards,

SpruceTop

Nice choices...

[HudsDad]

I'm a bit of a fanatic when it comes to amps, which is probably why I have almost 30 in the studio right now, so my "favorite" varies from day to day. I built most of mine, but if the studio caught fire tonight and I had to run through a wall of flame to save one, it would be my 1966 Vox AC30 Top Boost.

[msr13]

My "best" amp is a modified Headstrong Lil' King. 12 watts, 6L6s, in a bigger case. Warm sounding, great jazz amp.

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww196/msrthiagi/Headstrong%20Lil%20King/IMG_2064.jpg

[ljguitar]

Hi Tp…

Electric - Fender Blues Jr
Acoustic - UltraSound AG-50

[Gypsyblue]

My two faves are my blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb w/ Celestion G12H30 speaker and my blackface Fender Princeton Reverb w/ Celestion G12 alnico speaker: http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa468/Goldenbirdcarole/IMG_1542.jpg

But I love this one too: an original 1951 Fender Super. That's my '54 Tele (w/Joe Bardens) and my 80's G&L (also w/Joe Bardens) leaned up against it.

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa468/Goldenbirdcarole/IMG_1401.jpg

[tochiro]

@Gypsyblue: if you decided to just give me your equipment, I think I'd take it ;-) Wow!

[Bluewyatt]

Acoustic Image Ten2.

[Gypsyblue]

@Gypsyblue: if you decided to just give me your equipment, I think I'd take it ;-) Wow!

Been playing a long time, and most of my stuff, I've had for a long time. ;)

[michaeljohnr]

Carr Rambler (#009) bought when Steve first started making them.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YZjKXUTfuBg/TeOotrl2BZI/AAAAAAAACRg/nbEabljFlj8/Voodoo1.jpg

[Ed422]

Acoustic- Ultrasound
Electric- I have a Peavey Studio Pro 40 that I got in 1982 or so that has always done exactly what I wanted. I've had a bunch of other amps but I always go back to the simple little Peavey. I never use the "features", boost, bright, etc. I always set the tone controls flat and the gain low (about 2 or 3) and then set the volume for where I'm playing.

Ed

[lmacmil]

My early 70s Fender Bandmaster Reverb in homemade 2x10 cabinet.

http://home.comcast.net/~lmacmil/SFBMR.jpg

What's the exact syntax to embed a picture in the message? I can never get it right.

http://home.comcast.net/~lmacmil/SFBMR.jpg

[eatswodo]

I'm rather enjoying this combination - I've had the Squier '51 for a while, but the Super Champ XD is new. It is undoubtedly the best amp I own :)

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd242/eatswodo/Squier%2051/83b19cf0.jpg

[HudsDad]

What's the exact syntax to embed a picture in the message? I can never get it right.

Instead of "url" use the tag: img

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[Humbuster]

Peavey Classic 30 for now, with a Victoria 5112 on the horizon for late summer.

[lmacmil]

Instead of "url" use the tag: img



Thanks. I was trying to use the <img src=....> syntax.

[Dru Edwards]

I have a couple of tube amps for my electric gear. The Traynor YCV-50 is great but my Marshall TSL-100 with 1960A cab is great. I gigged it for about 2 years in a metal band a few years back and fit the bill.

[m-thirty-great]

My Fender Frontman 15r, that someone gave me, with a failing input jack is my best. In fact, it is the only amp I own. Since I have no electric guitars, it is more than I need.

[Gham]

I didn't know it until recently but,my favorite acoustic amp is my VibroChamp XD on channell 16,We've had the wettest spring in 70 years up here in Michigan and the humidity is terrible.

My Epiphone sounded so bad I tried it with XD as a joke,voila!sounded better,not great,better

[Taylorplayer]

I didn't know it until recently but,my favorite acoustic amp is my VibroChamp XD on channell 16,We've had the wettest spring in 70 years up here in Michigan and the humidity is terrible.

My Epiphone sounded so bad I tried it with XD as a joke,voila!sounded better,not great,better

Yes - I started to think about building an Ark!

[theotigno]

1961 Gibson GA-5T Skylark :D ...

http://www.treative.com/agf/1961-gibson-skylark.jpg

[BoB/335]

'69 Pro Reverb

[jrporter]

Sorry to ruin the mood with corporate shots, but here are my Fender "twins":

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w251/jrp1950/89195-ce2114ea3f0e9af83f6e5a789b724a01.jpg http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w251/jrp1950/_c31549_image_0.jpg

[talkgtr]

I use the Carolina Blue Goodsell S17 for acoustics and trade off between the others for electric gigs. I've owned tons of vintage and boutique amps in my years of playing,.... love my Goodsell amps.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f335/talkovich/goodsell_fam.jpg

[dave251]

Here's my "Wendler electroCoustic" amp....

Mojotone wide-panel deluxe cab. 2 X EL34 output tubes; 12AT7 in both the preamp and phase splitter positions; One knob tone stack and master volume. Speaker is an Eminence Beta 12LT....flat frequency response all the way up to about 8.5K, which is unlike any other guitar speaker that has a freq response bump at around 2k. The EL34 was chosen for it's "warmth" over a 6L6, and the 12AT7 is just a bit less gain than a 12AX7, which allows for a bit more control over front end distortion.

Simple. Designed for CLEAN tone....all of the gain stages are designed to go into clipping at the same level.

Weight is only 32 lbs, with about 30 clean watts output. My design philosophy is "less is more"....four gain stages, the absolute shortest signal path for a class A/B amp...preamp, tone stack, phase splitter and output. This in turn allows the greatest dynamic range and attack transient...the fewer gain stages, the better the "touch sensitivity" the amp will allow.

It is the 3rd prototype amp, after two pure class "A" designs, which was necessary to get the weight down, and the power/efficiency up.

Been using it for more than four years. After about a two month period of learning how to bias the amp and getting a power supply issue worked out, it has been dead nuts reliable, although I do bias those EL34s pretty hot, so they are good for only about a year of steady studio and stage use. A fair tradeoff.....the amp is ENTIRELY useful for any application(including acoustic) where no clipping or distortion is desired, that is, jazz, country, blues, pop, funk, etc. Works GREAT with my "KW" model guitars( Tele lead pup). Since it really won't dirty up, it has about the same output as a Fender BF Deluxe. For live situations, I hang a Sennheiser e609 mic in front of the cone for a PA feed.

http://www.electrocoustic.com/newimage/sb%20amp2med.jpg

[Crazyquilt]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/5781707152_e029630af8_z.jpg

Swart Atomic Space Tone Mk II with a Celestion Gold. The guitar is a Gretsch 6120 blue burst I call Yojimbo.

[Gypsyblue]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/5781707152_e029630af8_z.jpg

Swart Atomic Space Tone Mk II with a Celestion Gold. The guitar is a Gretsch 6120 blue burst I call Yojimbo.

Sweet! Never heard of those but that amp sure looks good.;)