In a way, you're right. It was a college of electronics, so I was not stranger to a lab coat.
And me and my bandmates did a lot of repairs to this crap ourselves.
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First amp you ever played through.
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And me and my bandmates did a lot of repairs to this crap ourselves.
The first amp I ever played through was an Ibanez IBZ10B. Rather cheap and super small but it got the job done for a little while. I guess its still and ok practice amp.
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Lafayette, a house brand ( made somewhere in Japan by some firm) from a long defunct electronics store. 3 watt solid state 1 6” speaker toy. My next one was the real deal, a 1958 Ampeg Reverberocket. 22 all tube watts into an efficient 12” speaker. Talk about crunch!! Pro quality, and $125 1968 from the original guitarist from a band I still play with today. But then I started playing bass and 22 watts didn’t cut it.
GBX with 4x12. Amp is in the cab. It was my brother's. A real tank, used opening for Rod Stewart, fell down long flight of stairs, too many mishaps to mention and just kept ticking.
Here's an image for ya. Me at age 14 with this amp on my skateboard, my bass on top and me standing on the last 3 inches of board. I would joyfully sail down this gradual sloping street, giving the folks on the porches something to see. lol. Getting a driver's licence was great.
Here's an image for ya. Me at age 14 with this amp on my skateboard, my bass on top and me standing on the last 3 inches of board. I would joyfully sail down this gradual sloping street, giving the folks on the porches something to see. lol. Getting a driver's licence was great.
My fist amp was a hand me down '72 Ampeg SVT. My Uncle gave it to me when he switched to a lighter GK unit (700RB IIRC). He kept the 810 cabinet, so I ran a home made 1-12 for a bit until I found suitable 410. Herre it is with my '89 Jazz Bass Special:
First amp ever was guitar, playing thru a Gorilla with a 10" speaker.
First Bass Amp ... still have it:
6space SKB rack with a Joe Meek preame, Rane EQ, and Mackie 800w 2ru power amp into an Ampeg 410he.
First Bass Amp ... still have it:
6space SKB rack with a Joe Meek preame, Rane EQ, and Mackie 800w 2ru power amp into an Ampeg 410he.
Piper tube head with, I think, a 212 or 215 vertical cab (with silver sparkle grille cloth)
Polytone Mini Brute II. considering i am a jazzer, and started on a fretless with flatwounds, it was an exceptionally groovy combination. I was extremely sad the day it died.
I don't even know if you could find my brother and my first amp. It was a 1x12 Regal(!?) amp. It had at least two inputs and was totally a POS.
HOLY COW! For years I played through amps I didn't own... and the 1st bass amp I bought was something else entirely, but then when I was 18 I upgraded to THIS EXACT AMP/CAB.
The driver sounded awesome, although it was either scooped or mid forward - nothing in between LoL. And the driver is just a preamp! So weird! The cab had the power amp in it....
it was a very cool sounding amp, but not terribly loud.
Peavey TnT 150
(file photo - stolen from internet, no pics of mine remain)
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(file photo - stolen from internet, no pics of mine remain)
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Can’t remember the exact amp, but i think it was a Peavey of some kind. Don’t know if they ever made a keyboard amp, but for some reason I think it was actually a keyboard amp.
I rocked a crate B50 for the first years of garage band noise. My next rig was an ampeg 810 and gk rb800 to make up for it lol.
In 1969, I played a Harmony H-25 bass through a used Fender Bassman w/ 2-12s. I wish I had both of them.
A mono record player and the cheapest available 15in speaker face down on the table to give it some kind of cabinet effect until I'd saved up enough money to build a cab for it.
