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Brand of your main amp

Brand of your main amp?

  • Acoustic

    Votes: 5 1.1%
  • Aguilar

    Votes: 15 3.2%
  • Ampeg

    Votes: 84 18.2%
  • Ashdown

    Votes: 15 3.2%
  • Behringer

    Votes: 8 1.7%
  • Eden

    Votes: 39 8.4%
  • Epifani

    Votes: 9 1.9%
  • Fender

    Votes: 18 3.9%
  • Gallien-Krueger

    Votes: 64 13.9%
  • Genz Benz

    Votes: 20 4.3%
  • Hartke

    Votes: 12 2.6%
  • MarkBass

    Votes: 35 7.6%
  • Marshall

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mesa/Boogie

    Votes: 30 6.5%
  • Peavey

    Votes: 24 5.2%
  • Sunn

    Votes: 3 0.6%
  • SWR

    Votes: 23 5.0%
  • Trace-Elliot

    Votes: 12 2.6%
  • Yorkville

    Votes: 15 3.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 94 20.3%

  • Total voters
    462
Mar 30, 2007
1,288
1,644
DFW Metro
I'd like to know the brand of amp you guys use most often. It's multiple choice, so if you have a gigging amp and a practice amp, you can list em both if they're both worth mentioning IYO.

Also say if the amp is a combo or head-cab rig and the main reason you picked that amp over any others you considered (power, tone, weight, durability, cost)

VOTE FOR YOUR AMP ONLY, not cabs. You can list the cabs you run your head through in a post.

Let's see which brands are the most popular, and why. I listed everything I could, and this should cover 99% of TBers.

Mine would be my Peavey combo/ext rig. I bought it mainly on price; it was $200 less than the comparable GK Backline combo (which was more the fact that it was used; new, my combo would have cost more). Peavey gear's also solid as a rock; only one thing has broken on it (speaker cone lead, 5-minute fix) in the 3 years I've had it.
 
ampeg

In the past:

'69 SBT pre with 2 SBT powered 215 cabs
'70 SVT with 2 V4B 215 cabs
'71 B15-S Portaflex

In the Present:

'05 V4-BH with SVT-15E cab
'05 BA-112 combo


George
 
I use my Fender rumble as a bedroom amp.

Temporarily I am using an old 130w Peavey head and a Fender Bassman 410. It doesn't sound half bad at medium volume but the head is a PA head, so the frequency response isn't what I'd like it to be.