Your personal amp history?

[M Sarad]

The beginning:
Fender:
Showman, Bassman, Twin Reverb, Tweed Deluxe, Tweed Princeton
GK Stereo 50 watt which I still have. The others are gone.
Mesa Boogie Mark 1
Seymour Duncan Convertible

I sold the Twin to a friend. He gave it to my brother.

Currently I own and use the following:
1958 Tweed Deluxe,
2001 Victoria Tweed Deluxe
1990s Tech21 65watt Classic- solid state and remarkably great sounding
1995 Hughes and Kettner Blues Master
1980 Fender Handwired Black Faced Deluxe Reverb. I bought this from Laurent Brondel.He had been using it live.
2013+/- PRS Paisley 50 watt H.

The Tweeds, Deluxe Reverb,HK, and PRS are run through a beat up old cabinet containing a 12” Jensen MOD speaker, their version of a Celestion. Amp choice depends on venue and volume. Small cafes? Fender or Victoria. Stage? Deluxe Reverb or PRS. The H&K is about 5 watts. It is good for practicing but can go straight into the PA.

[DukeX]

Had:
An old Reel-to-Reel (LOL)
A small Gorilla solid state (had "distortion" and "presence" controls!)
Johnson J-Station (modeler: mucho fun)
Epiphone Valve Jr. (played it through a Carvin 10" bass speaker)
Vox AC4C1-BL (first Vox, loved it)

Now:
5e3 Tweed Deluxe (Lil Dawg Amps)
Vox AC4HW1 (move up from the AC4C1)
Princeton Reverb (Vintage Sound Amps)

Edit:
I also have a 4x10 cab (a modified solid wood organ cab) with four Webers in it. Each speaker is wired individually with its own jack. I use a parallel cable and a Weber Z-Matcher so I can play any speaker individually or any two at a time (10 combos).
10A125
10F150
Blue Pup
Silver 10

[KevWind]

this says it all

[Gordon Currie]

Binson (Italian manufacturer, no idea how it got to Seattle in the late Sixties)
Fender Twin
Yamaha solid state
Mesa Studio .22 (still use this)
Yamaha DG-1000 rackmount

I am definitely moving into modelling, as I won't be playing electric exclusively for the near future, and I find modeled tones easier to integrate with acoustic music.

[Bob Womack]

Well, lessee...

The '70s

Heathkit Mono Hi-fi amp converted to guitar amp, burned up by a friend
'67 Silvertone 1464 100 watt amp, sold to buy...
'67 Fender Drip Edge Bandmaster with 2x12" cab cut down from a 4x12" Hammond Tone Cabinet, sold to buy...
'66 Gibson GA-55RVT Ranger, 4x12" combo, 50 watts via 2x6L6s
'73 Travnor YRM-1 Reverb Master, sold to buy...

The more recent era:
'95 Marshall JTM-612 60 watt combo
'71 Fender Champ
Motion Sound Sidewinder rotary speaker amp
2011 Mesa Boogie 5:25 Express 1x12" combo
Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue
'73 Traynor YRM-1 Reverb Master re-buy
Fender '57 Tweed Deluxe custom built clone
'63 Gretsch 6150T combo "Champ killer"
2016 Leslie G37 Rotary Speaker amp
Marshal JMP-1 preamp and TuberWorks MV962 power amp in a rack given to me
2016 Fender Custom '68 Princeton Reverb
'66 Gibson GA-45RVT Saturn 2x10" combo

Modeling:
Line6 POD 2.0
Line6 POD HD500X
Line6 Helix Floor

Um, I still own too many of these items. They are sort of spread between home and the studio where I work.

Bob

[Steel and wood]

Fender Mustang and Roland Microcube solid state amps (I'm a loungeroom player these days) but I would love a Blues Junior and maybe the odd pedal to complete the picture.

[jayhawk]

My list is pretty simple

Mesa TA-15 w/Avatar Ca

My son's list is a little longer, although most are stored at my house.

Crate Vintage 30
Marshall 401
Jazzkat Fatkat
Ceriatone Plexi 50 w/Avatar Cab

The Ceriatone is amazing but I really need to get a good attenuator for it.

Jack

[DanR]

Here's my amp history. All amps were tube except the Acoustic 117.

'65 Vox Cambridge Reverb
'72 Fender Princeton
'67 Gibson Duo Medalist
'79 Acoustic 117
'75 Fender Vobrolux Reverb
'81 Fender 75
'83 MESA/Boogie MkIIB
*'75 Fender Vibro Champ (in a 1 X 12" cabinet)
'60 Ampeg Jet
*'03 TopHat Club Royale
'67 Fender Bandmaster (in a Deluxe Reverb 1 X 12" cabinet)

* still got it...

[YamahaGuy]

Crate GX80 (broke quickly), sold it, bought it back from a guy who fixed it, it broke again. Ultimately sold it.

Peavey Vypryr VIP2 + Sanpera pedal. Used it quite a lot. Sold it.

Crate GT15 practice amp. Nice little practice amp with a great dirty channel. Sold it.

Epiphone Valve Jr. 8" combo. Loved the tone and simplicity. Gigged with it mic'd several times. Experimented with different pre amp tubes. Sold it.

Yamaha THR5. Recorded lots with it. Loved the effects and portability. Used it at church a lot. Gigged with it patched into PA out of headphone jack. Everyone always said, dude your amp sounds killer. Where is it? Lol. Sold it. Miss it.

Vox Night Train 15 combo. Tubes went 2nd time I used it right before a gig. Loved the thick setting. Loved the tones, but it was very heavy for its compact size. Sold it don't miss it.

Bugera v22 Infinium. Changed tubes. Love it. Sound guys at gigs want it.

[phcorrigan]

My history is only a couple of months old. My first amp was a Fender Mustang LT25, which I returned within a couple of days. My next amp was a used Line 6 Spider IV 30, which I had for a few weeks before I bought a Bugera V22 Infinium, which is the only amp I have now.

I'm looking for a used Yamaha THR10 for practice and for those times that I don't want to carry the Bugera. BTW, I bought the Line 6 for $50 and sold it for $75. One of the reasons I like Craigslist is that I can buy used stuff, try it, and, if I don't like it, usually sell it for what I paid for it, sometimes more.

[srbell]

I've had several small amps I no longer have (a tube Kalamazoo, Peavey Backstage, etc.). I currently have a Peavey Bandit (red stripe made in USA), Peavey Vypyr 212 100 watt, Peavey Envoy, and a small off-brand tube amp that's a clone of a Laney Cub 12R. What's my favorite you ask? Straight into the board - no amp at all - but at home I generally use the little tuber as it is convenient and sounds good. If I could only have one it would be the Bandit. It's rock-solid, sounds great, and will probably still be working just fine long after I'm gone.

[Steve DeRosa]

• '64 Ampeg Rocket - top panel, no 'verb; bought new in May '64, still has original tubes*
• Kustom bass combo, mid-70's - model unknown/SS 35W/1x12", needed a practice amp for the '67 Epiphone Rivoli I picked up for $150
• Univox U4100 II - late-70's second-edition front-panel Minimax 100W 1x15", made an OK (and heavy) stage amp once I swapped in a JBL E-130
• Randall RB-120 grey-panel - early-80's old-school 1x15" bass/guitar combo, my music-room bass practice/new-guitar shakedown amp (loads of headroom, passive 3-band EQ, no bells-&-whistles to get in the way of hearing your guitar's real tone)*
• Music Man 410-65 - Leo Fender's next evolutionary step in the Super Reverb saga, picked it up used in the early-80's as a stage amp after being away from electric playing for nearly 15 years (probably saved my hearing as a result)
• Peavey Studio Pro 40 - my '80s "orchestra pit" 1x12" combo, sounded bigger than it was with a retrofit Scorpion Plus
• Peavey Bandit 65 - more headroom/power than the SP 40 (also heavier), the best acoustic/electric amp I've ever used bar none, and I never should have sold it
• Peavey Minx - compact 1x10" bass combo for acoustic jams/coffeehouse gigs*
• Peavey Studio Pro 60 - similar size as the SP 40 with more grunt, not as good as the Bandit for acoustic/electric guitar (this one's my go-to banjo amp) but one of the first reasonably-priced amps with built-in XLR DI*
• Fender Champ 12 - red knobs/grey grillecloth/single 6L6, another one I should have kept, sang like Pavarotti's parakeet when I swapped in a Mesa SP-AX7 preamp tube and an old JBL E-120 I had lying around
• Peavey Studio Pro 110 - "blue-stripe" 65W 1x10" combo, played like a Princeton Reverb with weapons-grade plutonium 'nads, swapped in a Scorpion speaker and used it as my '90s "road amp"
• Tech 21 Trademark 10 - my home studio/classroom amp, my wife still uses it for coffeehouse gigs and direct-to-board/low-volume stage*
• Line 6 Flextone Plus - my first and last venture into the world of modeling amps, used maybe a dozen times since I bought it in '99 (with matching full pedalboard) and not at all since moving to my present digs 13 years ago*
• Ampeg Portabass 250 1x12" combo - more compact/more powerful than the Randall, this one's my all-purpose playing-out bass amp*
• Fender '65 Super Reverb RI - couldn't afford one back in the day, missed my old Music Man, bought it just because, can't lift it anymore *
• Bugera V22 - first-edition/second-run (after they worked out all the initial gremlins) "blue-light" 1x12" combo, modded it (tube/speaker swap, mild rebias) into a "Key Club" blue-check Ampeg tone-clone, been my workhorse amp ever since*
• Carvin MB12 bass combo - the dedicated bass version of the 3-way AG300 acoustic/electric amp, my P&W/CCM "modern tone" bass amp*
• Fender Frontman 212R - 100W 2x12" with classic blackface appointments and Fender clean tone for days (a favorite of the surf crowd sometimes referred to as the "transistor Twin), weighs 25% less than my Super, and an irresistible bargain @ $159 brand-new at a going-out-of-business Best Buy branch*
• Bugera V5 Infinium - baby brother to the V22, my go-to band practice amp*
• Traynor DH25H QuarterHorse microamp - another irresistible bargain at $69 as an MF SDOTD and a surprisingly good-sounding little toy, more features than the Vox MV50 I came this close to buying (dual switchable channels, trem'/verb/slapback echo - OD gets a pretty good approximation of the Randy Bachman "American Woman" lead tone), picked up a Randall RG8 cab and put together a backup/jam rig that goes with me everywhere*

* currently own

[CoryB]

My fIrst amp was a Sears of some sort that I sold around 1975.
With the money from that, and adding a good amount I purchased a Yamaha G100 B212 that I had for many years. Distortion and reverb were built-in and both sounded horrible. It was also heavy for what it was. I finally sold that a few years back when I picked up playing guitar again and realized how bad it sounded.
I replaced the Yamaha with a Fender Mustang 100 watt amp but I spent all my time playing with the different voices and never found what I wanted. So that got sold.
I briefly had a Marshall single stack Valvestate 2000 AVT but it was too loud for my music room. It’s gone now as well.

My current stable consists of:
Roland Cube 40GX
Vox AC15C1
Polytone Mini-Brute III
Fishman Loudbox
Monoprice 5-watt all tube amp

I play strictly at home and all of these get way louder than I need. I would love to find “the” amp but it hasn’t happened yet.

[M Sarad]

Looking good.

Thanks for participating.

[fenderball]

Currents:
Heads...
Goodsell Super Seventeen
Morgan MV 23
Top Hat Supreme 16
Quilter 101

COMBOS
'64 Fender Deluxe Reverb
Naylor Electra-Verb 38
Fender DeVille

Acoustic Amp
AER Compact 60/2

Gone
Friedman Dirty Shirley Head
Peavey Classic 30
Alessandro Working Dog
Reverend Hellhound
Vox Night Train

Acoustic Amp
Fender Acoustasonic Jr.