Amps! (Electric Guitar)

[KevWind]

Wow some amazing amp collections

As per the other thread I am just starting back into electric guitar after 47 years

So this is my starter kit
Supro Titan 1X10 and 50 watt combo and 1X12 extension Cab
PRS 24 CE


Currently set up in the great room with my PA system

[Darwin]

Awesome starter kit!!!! -- Darwin

[jimmybcool]

Really nice setup. Cant go wrong with Supro IMO. The owner of Supro is an amp genius.

[KevWind]

Thanks I am really pleased, and glad I took Steve's suggestion.....and grabbed it on the black friday sale.

[jseth]

Originally Posted by DanR

I know this thread is about amps but...

What's the guitar? It looks like a 335 with 345 inlays. And typically, a 345 has a varitone dial. I do see extra switches and the non-Gibson Vibrato/bridge but I'm just curious as to what the actual model is.

I have a '67 ES335 stoptail conversion with Grovers and it has the same knobs as your...

Good eye... it IS a 345; a 1974 that I've owned since '76. At this point, it's my "Frankenstein" guitar, as there isn't a whole lot still stock on it...

The variatone switch was removed; those things REALLY eat up your signal output! In its place is a by-pass micro-toggle that sends the output of the pickups straight to the amp, bypassing the tone and volume controls. Different pots on both tone and volume controls, coil-taps on the Seymour Duncan pickups so I can approximate a decent single-coil tone.

Fatter fretwire, and of course, the Kahler locking nut vibrato unit - which was a "last ditch effort" to get the guitar to stay in tune for more than 1/2 a song! Mission accomplished, albeit by broaching every bit of "vintage resale" potential...

Plays like a dream, sounds terrific through any amp I've run it through, stays in tune very nicely.... still in pretty cherry shape, cosmetically.

Your 335 is lovely...

[Jeff Scott]

At the moment, I have not guitar specific amplifier as I mostly just plug my PRS Custom 24 straight into my pedals and recording gear.

I did own these over the years (in order of acquisition):

Late 1990s Tech 21 Trademark 60 combo amp
2000 Fender Hot Rod Deluxe combo amp
Mid '90s Mesa/Boogie DC-2 combo amp
1966 Fender BandMaster head
Early 1970s Fender Princeton Reverb Amp
1962 Fender Concert Amp
2014 Swart STR-Tremolo

These days my Markbass Minimark with a tc electronic MOJOMOJO does the job when I need to amplify the PRS as I am trying to sell the guitar in favor of just using my acoustic guitars.

[jimmybcool]

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

At the moment, I have not guitar specific amplifier as I mostly just plug my PRS Custom 24 straight into my pedals and recording gear.

I did own these over the years (in order of acquisition):

Late 1990s Tech 21 Trademark 60 combo amp
2000 Fender Hot Rod Deluxe combo amp
Mid '90s Mesa/Boogie DC-2 combo amp
1966 Fender BandMaster head
Early 1970s Fender Princeton Reverb Amp
1962 Fender Concert Amp
2014 Swart STR-Tremolo

These days my Markbass Minimark with a tc electronic MOJOMOJO does the job when I need to amplify the PRS as I am trying to sell the guitar in favor of just using my acoustic guitars.

Ooooh. 62 Concert. Amazing tremolo.

[muscmp]

i saw one of these yesterday and, while it was beautiful, it is almost double the regular price.

65 deluxe reverb reissue limited with sunburst wood. also saw another with, what looked to be, mahogany. that one was beautiful also but again way too much $$$$.

http://www.instrumentalmusic.com/p-2...celestion.aspx

play music!

[loco gringo]

Nice amps on this thread.

[JeffreyAK]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Hi Jeff, I've got the head version of that, the 210H. I find it almost does too much and I'm more of a set it and forget it guy now. But you're right, so many options. The foot pedal is great.

In hindsight, I actually wish I'd sprung for the 410, because it has four channels instead of two, and I switch back and forth between more than two different voices, each with changes to the knobs too. Not a huge deal, just means I have to keep notes once I've experimented and found something I really like.

[DanR]

Originally Posted by jseth

Your 335 is lovely...

Thank you very much. Now that I think of it, I did have it refretted by the best guy in town (Mike Koontz) in 2002 and I did specify larger than stock frets although I can't remember the exact spec.

[6L6]

My 1972 Deluxe Reverb:

[wrathfuldeity]

I've downsized to a couple of odd balls: circa 50's se6L6 recordplayer conversion and 1949 boat anchor pp6v6 monoblock. Often used with the board to set up as dual mono w/d rig that uses a variety of cabs (depending on rattling the house or whisper bedroom...from a set of 5, 8, 10 to 12" ceramic and alnicos but my fav is a diy over-sized cab.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by JeffreyAK

In hindsight, I actually wish I'd sprung for the 410, because it has four channels instead of two, and I switch back and forth between more than two different voices, each with changes to the knobs too. Not a huge deal, just means I have to keep notes once I've experimented and found something I really like.

I also have a TSL 100 with 3 channels that I gigged with 10 years back. I really only needed 2 channels though for the stuff we played. I'll admit I haven't played the 210 lately.

[Jeff Scott]

Originally Posted by jimmybcool

Ooooh. 62 Concert. Amazing tremolo.

Yes it is! In its place is a Strymon Flint which offers the same "vibremolo/tremato" but without the dreaded DC thumping (particularly when the intensity is turned up much) that the Concert Amp produces. The 4 10" speakers didn't look too happy when it was cranked.

What even more amazing, however, is that I had all those amps in the first place - I am a bassist!