Best amp you played through

[/\/\3phist0]

Cool, but you didn't get all that close to "the best amp." Not amps. Link Removed

That makes it a whole lot tougher, at least for me.

Yep. My "best" has drifted over time.

Best Yet answer:

Mesa Titan V12

 

[Xandrell]

Traynor YBA300 into a Traynor 8x10

I almost bought this. I ended up with an Ampeg SVT II Pro and 810 Heritage cab.

 

[shoot-r]

"Best" so far to my ears.....Mesa M-6 Carbines.
I've now got to of em'.

 

[west al]

The best amp I've played through, my current Fender Super Bassman, and Bassman 410 Neo.

 

[JesseVMT]

I'm lucky enough where the rig I own is the best I've played. Eden for the win

 

[bobyoung53]

70's Ampeg SVT's with that being said I have not tried a new heritage SVT, I have tried the Ampeg SVT classic however and that did sound good but not as good as an old SVT to me.

 

[dbase]

 

[bigcatJC]

Back in the day, late 80's, at the now-vanished Reliable Music in Charlotte, NC:

Trace Elliot Series V AH-500 head. These monsters were conservatively rated at 500 watts. I have heard you could push 'em over 600 watts! This baby was running into:
Two 4x10 Trace Series V cabs (Fane speakers, I think)
PLUS
Two 1x15 Trace Series V cabs (Same Fanes)

With the master volume somewhere between 10 and 11 o'clock, the sound was heavenly and LOUD. I was sitting ten feet from the mondo stack, BTW. Any closer, and I'd hate to think about the headaches. But forget volume, the quality of clean, high headroom tone has never been matched for me. I weep at the memory...

 

[rtav]

Back in the day, late 80's, at the now-vanished Reliable Music in Charlotte, NC:

Trace Elliot Series V AH-500 head. These monsters were conservatively rated at 500 watts. I have heard you could push 'em over 600 watts! This baby was running into:
Two 4x10 Trace Series V cabs (Fane speakers, I think)
PLUS
Two 1x15 Trace Series V cabs (Same Fanes)

With the master volume somewhere between 10 and 11 o'clock, the sound was heavenly and LOUD. I was sitting ten feet from the mondo stack, BTW. Any closer, and I'd hate to think about the headaches. But forget volume, the quality of clean, high headroom tone has never been matched for me. I weep at the memory...

Here's my AWESOME Series V AH500X (driving my Trace 4x10 and Trace 2x15 while my AH200S separately drives my Trace Bright Box 4x5) - it knocks shelves off the walls in the adjacent practice space and can completely drown out the entire band if taken over 4 output and 4 input.

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[Jim Pen]

Ampeg B15n Heritage, from 2013. Don't know how it compares to the originals, but I love it.

 

[XXL]

Mesa Boogie Buster 200 watt all tube amp and the Ampeg 8x10 Classic cab.

I've been playing on all sorts of rigs since 1991, and this Buster/Fridge combo is the absolute best that I have played through in all those years.

 

[Rubbl]

Mesa Bass Prodigy; the best amp I ever have played and the best amp, ever have heard.

 

[bigcatJC]

Here's my AWESOME Series V AH500X (driving my Trace 4x10 and Trace 2x15 while my AH200S separately drives my Trace Bright Box 4x5) - it knocks shelves off the walls in the adjacent practice space and can completely drown out the entire band if taken over 4 output and 4 input.

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I haven't been this jealous in a loooong time.

 

[rodl2005]

Fender Super Bassman thru two Fender Bassman Pro Neo 115 cabs

Or thru a Berg NV412

Is my favorite of all time.

 

[username1]

mesa stratedgy for me

 

[dbbltime]

That looks so right rod2005. Both ways

 

[Rob22315]

Best for me is any combo (amp plus cab) that has a very flat response. Having an electrical engineering background means I'd rather dial-in my tone with electronics rather than going through a bunch of trial/error experiments with various amps, cabs, cables, preamps, pickups etc. When I play live, I go through FOH so I'm dialing that tone in with electronics anyway. I do like flatwound strings for my best tone though.

I get a nice flat output from my Ibanez Promethean amps (500W) and cabs (110 and 210 versions). I had a couple of Peavey amps/cabs and still have a GK MB500. I prefer the light weight of the class D amps and found I didn't care for how much GK amps color the tone.

 

[redshot]

Mesa Boogie Bass 400+ and the respective 1x18 speaker. Had it for a week, cleaned up its guts, unfortunately the transformers are already showing signs of external oxidation, can't imagine underneath. Fell in love with it!

 

[klejst]

My favorite amp and cab rig I ever owned and played through was a Peavey Tour 450 with a Mesa PowerHouse 6x10 cab. Sold it about three years ago in a downsizing before I eventually stopped playing full-time.

 

[peterpalmieri]

Glockenklang Heartrock with a Sadowsky SA410, no question in my mind. At the time I owned that rig I was playing 3 nights a week and had to drag it up and down my basement stairs every time, not to mention on the ferry, in the city etc. Wound up doing two days a week at the chiropractor and went to something lighter.

Now I don't gig so much, I am able to keep an Ampeg 810 in the garage and I have a pickup truck so tilting it up into the bed is super easy.