SWR mo' bass through two Goliath III and Marhsall JCM800 through some unknown 4x12 (or 4x10... don't remember well)
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For me it’s my self designed and built tube pre-amp driving a Carvin HD2000 Class D power amp into a pair of 4Ω Acme B2s in a vertical stack.
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I hope most people are answering with the amp they currently use. My favorite is my Trace Elliot V6. I used one as part of a rented backline in Toronto once and had to have one.
An old Acoustic from the 70's... what a GREAT sound! Unfortunately it had a grounding issue (and I was young a stupid, didn't get it fixed) so I got rid of it. (It would shock the crap out of me every time I touched a mic. Now I wish I had it back!
All my amps are quite good. Some are amazing. This one, however, rules supreme:
Does the house get any tone from that SVT or does your REDDI handle all output to the FOH?
Jimmy, what is that?All my amps are quite good. Some are amazing. This one, however, rules supreme:
The REDDI was the only thing hooked up to the board in that pic, but what ends up happening is that both make it into the house despite not having a mic directly in front of the cab. People think that just because their amp doesn't have a mic on it that you can't hear it in the house, and nothing can be farther from the truth. Even at my low volumes, you can still hear it in the house because other mics on the stage pick it up, especially my vocal mic. It's not like there's some invisible wall in front of the stage that blocks it
2013 custom Ampeg Heritage SVT-CL (the custom part is a Heyboer output transformer that was factory installed) and Heritage 810e with an A-Designs REDDI on top.
Kind of a toss-up. Really just depends.
1970 Ampeg V4 through either a GK Neo 212 or Uber410. This amp doesn't give me a choice .....it simply must come along every time. I have other amps that I love, but there is something magical about this old amp.
I played through an SWR SM900 at an arena gig in Scottsdale, AZ. (We opened for Heart) Always wanted to use one as I have been using SWR for 20 yrs. It was a blast! Great tone with plenty of headroom. Punchy, warm and clean.
I played an SVT 810 in a rehearsal hall in 1982 that made me very jealous of every amp I have ever owned. I played an old solid state Acoustic head through a fender dual showman cab loaded with 2 altec 12's that was awesome... I enjoyed my Yorkville Bassmaster 800 into a Henry 8x8 most recently (even more than my Ampeg 410HLF).
Was playing at the Rosemont and everybody including our SE (who later mentioned that some mods were made, tubes and caps) said he HAD to mic the amp that day.. I don't know any particulars about the mods at all but i know it's one of only 2 times that they mic'd the amp, the other was an old old old marshall with a 610, the marshall had the biggest volume knob i have ever seen.
I remember some German caps being mentioned... (Sorry that's prob not much help, i remember i was really badly jet lagged that day)
