Electric Guitar amps thread.

[Dru Edwards]

We have lots of threads about guitars, how about one for electric guitar amps and cabs. Tell us about amps you own or have owned. I know some of you have even built an amp so include those as well.

Doesn't matter if it's tube, solid state, modeling, head, combo, etc. Hopefully we'll see some 1 watt amps.

Here's a couple of my Marshalls; the Vintage Modern on the left and the JVM on the right. The cabs are the 425A and the 1960A.

[clintj]

Got a Marshall practice amp, Fender Mustang I hooked into my computer, and a Tweed Deluxe built from a Mojotone kit. Just ordered a kit for a blackface Super Reverb for this year's project, too. Should be here in about a month, give or take.

[David Eastwood]

I've been through all sorts of things over the years. As a dedicated basement noodler, this is the current collection.

First, and foremost, my Egnater Tweaker 15, through a Blackstar 1x12 head - Celestion-equipped.
I have not found a sound that this little marvel cannot make yet.



Second, and a very close second, a Vox Pathfinder 15R.
This thing sounds better than any other solid-state amp I've ever tried.
It might just be the 'best bang for the buck' piece of gear I own.



Finally, I have a little Kustom Defender 5. This one frustrates me to no end.
It's the least powerful (nominally) of the three I own, yet it's unusably loud in my room.
I'll figure out a way of using it, one of these days.

[The Growler]

Here's a pic of my favorite. A Gibson GA RVT-20.



I'll have to take a couple pics of my other amps. Apparently they're camera shy as I don't have any pictures of them.

[Bingoccc]

Pretty simple for me. A Fender Blues Junior and a Marshall Class 5. I love them both.

[Basalt Beach]

We have a Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue in our RI house and a '65 Reverb Deluxe Reissue in Tampa.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by Bingoccc

Pretty simple for me. A Fender Blues Junior and a Marshall Class 5. I love them both.

I was with my buddy when he (we) demoed a Class 5 a few weeks ago. I've heard them before but never cranked. It had a great tone with beautiful overdrive breakup. We put a pedal in front (I think it was a tube screamer) to give it a little boost. He also tried it through a 1960a 4x12, what a huge sound.

[moon]

I posted about a new amp-building project a few months back but it got put to one side during the independence referendum here in Scotland (we lost, but next time..). Anyway, the long dark nights of winter are a good time to pick it up again. Power amp chassis drilled:

[Darwin]

Dru, here are my guitar amps from smallest to larger.


First is my 5 watt Valve Train with The Spring Thing reverb on top. A wonderful 5 watt amp.




Next is my Vox AC15, my go to at home. It is the one I use the most at home as I love the clean tone.



The next three are my larger ones and on the left is a 76 Fender Vibrasonic Reverb with a JBL DF 130 15" in it. A very clean amp. In the middle is the Fender Cyber Twin SE, mistakenly referred to by many as a modeling amp but it has several different amp circuits in it and is the real thing. It can do all kinds of things but requires a bit of knowledge to program. It was not a successful product for Fender due to the programming learning curve. On the right is my extension cabinet containing another JBL D130 15". I am on the hunt for a head for this cabinet.



My photography skills are lacking as it in not my forte. I also have several bass cabinets which I am not showing. I gig as a bassist. -- Darwin

[Steve DeRosa]

Current:
Ampeg Rocket R-12A 1x12" combo - bought new in '64
Randall RB-120 1x15" bass/guitar combo
Peavey Minx 110 bass combo
Peavey Studio Pro 50 1x12" combo
Line 6 Flextone Plus 1x12" combo w/full footboard (both dead-mint - and for sale as a pair only)
Tech 21 Trademark 10 1x8" combo
Ampeg PortaBass 250 1x12" combo
Fender '65 Super Reverb RI - for when I need LOUD
Bugera V22 1x12" combo w/Eminence Swamp Thang, Soviet mil-spec tubes, rebias - my go-to playing-out amp
Carvin MB12 3-way bass combo
Ibanez TB50R 1x12" combo ($49 used at GC - a TS with a clean channel/'verb/50W power and a 12" speaker, for half the price of the little green stompbox)
Fender Frontman 212R combo - my backup/practice/project amp

Previous:
Kustom 35 1x12" bass combo
Univox U4100-II (front-panel) 1x15" bass combo w/JBL E-130
Music Man 410-65 (silver logo/SS driver stage)
Peavey Studio Pro 40 1x12" combo w/Scorpion Plus speaker
Peavey Bandit 65 1x12" combo
Peavey Studio Pro 110 1x10" combo w/Scorpion speaker - my '90s travel amp

[Sombras]

Here's one of my 1957 5W Gretsch and Egnater Rebel 30 2x12. Couldn't sit two more dissimilar tube amps side by side. Love them both. The Gretsch is about as "honest" an amp as you get--one volume/on-off control and one tone control. Yes, it has the original '57 valves! The Egnater's clean channel is disturbingly clear, whereas the dirty channel is full of body and chunk, especially with my Les Paul.



And then there's this wonder, my Fender Hot Rod Blues Jr. NOS. A little 15W tone beast. My LP sounds good through it, but MAN what an amazing sound when I plug in my Strat.



These three are definitely doing it for me.

[muscmp]

here is my list. previously sold a 65 premier club bass b160 amp with a 65 premier reverb unit. should have kept both as the amp was a one-off. oh, well, live and learn.

some of the ones listed are still on my needs repair list.

play music!


AMP CHRONOLOGY

1. 1950 gibson ga50t

2. 1953 gibson br9

3. 1953 gibson ga20

4. 1958 gibson ga20t

5. 1958 gibson ga9

6. 1959 fender tweed princeton

7. 1962 gibson ga79rtv

8. 1962 gibson ga79rtv

9. 1964 fender bassman blonde with cabinet

10. 1964 fender bassman blackface with cabinet

11. 1964 gibson ga5t skylark

12. 1964 gibson ga17rvt scout

13. 1965 fender bassman blackface w/o cabinet

14. 1966 gibson ga15rvt explorer

15. 1966 gibson ga20rvt minuteman

16. 1966 gibson ga8t discoverer tremolo

17. 1966 fender deluxe reverb

18. 1966 gibson ga95rvt apollo

19. 1966 sears silvertone 1482

20. 1967 fender pro reverb blackface

21. 1967 fender super reverb blackface

22. 1967 fender showman blackface w/o cabinet

23. 1976 orange 0r80 converted to or120 w/o cabinet

24. 1982 mesa boogie mark IIB

25. 1989? marshall lead 12

26. 1993? fender bronco

[moon]

Some fine old amps there - including a good selection of Gibsons

[barefooter]

Here are pictures of two of them. I'd have to dig around for other pictures for the others. I have a Fender Vibro amp I have given to my son, a digital solid state by Rocktron which surprised me in sound, another Kustom with a 1 X 18 bass cabinet (250), and then my Yamaha PA that really perform well with the Taylors.





There have been other amps over the years such as a Kustom 100-2 in cascade color (wish I still had that one), an Arthur Smith 1 X 15 tube which put out some sound, and Acoustic lead amp, and I am sure others that I cannot recall at the moment.

[franchelB]

I've only had 3 guitar amps.
1. Started off with a Gorilla GC or CG-35 practice amp.
2. Started gigging with the first generation Fender M-80 solid state.
3. Bought a Peavey Delta Blues back in 2005, when I "warmed" up to the sound of a tube amp.

I still have the Peavey.