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12-29-2011, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: WA | | | Cool Vintage Solid State Amps
What are some neat old solid state amps to check out? |
12-29-2011, 02:44 PM
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Owner, Chopshop Amps | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: cincy ky | | | anything by silvertone.
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12-29-2011, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | I've got a '60s Standel that's kind of cool.
It's the only SS amp I own. 
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12-29-2011, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | The original Roland Cube (orange) 60 watt
Vox Essex and Kensington amps
2nd generation Ampeg portoflex
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12-29-2011, 02:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | | Old acoustic (acoustic control corp) amps!!
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12-29-2011, 03:21 PM
| | | | I've got an Acoustic 370, f ing ridiculous good! |
12-29-2011, 03:22 PM
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12-29-2011, 03:22 PM
| | | | Old Polytones sound great!
The 101 was nice! |
12-29-2011, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Salinas, CA | | | sunn and acoustic |
12-29-2011, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central CA Coast | | 70s GKs (aka GMT back then), Road, +1 on Standel 
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12-29-2011, 03:56 PM
|  | Half Hip, Half Hick | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Tennessee | | | I have a 120 watt Kasino head. Kasino was the Plain Jane version of the old tuck and roll Kustoms that were sold in a different market area. They have the same hissssss.
Ditto on the Standels. I had one around 1970.
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12-29-2011, 03:58 PM
|  | GO VEGAN! | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | +100 on old Acoustic Amps (especially the 370 and 320)
The old Sunn SS amps are pretty rad too. A lot of guys like the Beta Bass heads and the Coliseum 300 sounds pretty sick as well. |
12-29-2011, 04:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Olivette, Missouri | | | Walter Woods MI-100-8, MI-400-8 and MI-600-8
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Originally Posted by TravTrav  What are some neat old solid state amps to check out? | Trav Trav,
If someone near you locally has an older Walter Woods MI-100-8 they were being built as of 1980. Since the amp had a Switchmode power supply driving an all discrete FET-based class A preamp with a all discrete linear class AB power amp.
For a brief time, in 1990 Walter offered both a 400 watt and 600 watt version of the same amplifier. All three amps power ratings were for 8 ohms.
Ric
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12-29-2011, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Logan,W.V.(not up some holler) | | | I think as far as old-school,SS amps,the Acoustic bass amps are the gold standard. If I still had my 370,I'd still probably gig with it. Yes,they're that good. |
12-29-2011, 05:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: L.A. (the Valley) | | | Kustom, Sunn
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12-29-2011, 05:14 PM
| | | | Acoustic 370 great ! |
12-29-2011, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central CA Coast | | | another route some guys took in the 70s was to use Alembic tube pre's (F2B) or Furman PQ3 and Crown (D150A, D300A) power amps.
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12-29-2011, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Eastman, GA | | | A.M.P.
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I borrowed a photo link from the AMP club.
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12-29-2011, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | Acoustic and Sunn are pretty well loved.
I'd nominate the Peavey Mark series as well. Reliable, if heavy, and you can get a lot of cool sounds from the ones with two blendable channels. |
12-29-2011, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by metalinthenight
The old Sunn SS amps are pretty rad too. A lot of guys like the Beta Bass heads and the Coliseum 300 sounds pretty sick as well.
| My father has a Beta Bass combo. It's huge (for combo standards), but it sounds awesome. Despite gigging it for years, it still looks close to mint (that's what a good cover can do for your gear).
Unfortunately, like some gear from that time period, it sounds like a wind tunnel when it's turned on and you're not playing anything.
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