First Bass Amp you ever had?

[Adam Bomb]

G-K 200MB.

Pretty sure it was made in 1984. Bought it from a buddy back in the 90s for $100 and I didn't even play bass yet. Pre-GAS.

Still got it just because I am an amp hoarder but now that there are other small amps in the world I can admit that I don't love its tone. But she's my first!

--Bomb

 

[Matt Dean]

Acoustic 136.

 

[jbassbob]

It was the late 60's and my first amp looked like this:

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and the cabinet was a beat up no name 212. I remember not being that happy with the tone but,
I was heavily under the influence of Sir Paul at the time.

I later saved up for a Kustom 100 with 212

(Image borrowed from a post by fellow Tb'er HeyMrTeleMan.)
Loved it before moving on to a 415 Peavey rig.

 

[Woodyrson]

I had a Fender Rumble 100 combo. When I started playing with a guitarist and a drummer it wouldn't keep up. I got rid of it for something a bit more powerful.

 

[LongHairFreak]

All I really recall is that it was a fully tubed Trainer with nothing fancy on the front. Watts?? Dunno.

 

[IPS]

Line 6 75 watt studio amp, had it for 3 years, then I went to college and I cant really have a better amp here, so ive been using it for 5 years now. Really want a better amp for summer gigs but my wallet is empty

 

[Trevorus]

First actual bass amp was a pretty amazing little rig, an Eden 210MBX, and a GK 1001RB. Great rig!

 

[Burtoneadg]

A Crate BX-25 1x10 25 watt combo. I still have it, even though it's useless. I was rocking so hard that it actually caught fire. I guess I keep it as a monument to the power of rock!

 

[awewowo]

my first and still i use it is SAMICK BA25..
i`ve change the potensio and still will be my partner practice..until i get the new one

 

[dbase]

First I plugged my bass into the phono input of my moms stereo console. Had good tone but no volume and I almost blew out the speakers. My first real bass amp was a 1965 Standel Artist Solid State 1x15 JBL D140.

 

[silvertones]

Mine was one my dad built from scratch back in 1964. He used stuff from old TVs. He ran an electronics wholesale store. The amp was built from a Silvertone schematic.2-6L6s for output. 12ax7 in the pre. 3 Jensen 12's.
My first store bought was a Trutone sold by Western Auto. It was a combo with a 15" driver. Same power amp as above in design.

 

[mcapote]

first amp i used on a bass was a line 6 spider (version1)guitar amp first bass amp a Hartke HA5000

 

[Exploiter8]

Peavey TNT 100

Me too! I put a Black Widow in mine. It made the already way too heavy amp even heavier. Just under 100 pounds. The 45 watts just barely cut it for practice with my T-40 bass against two guitars and drums.

X8

 

[Lo-E]

Same here. I got mine in '79 with my T-40. I lent it to my ex-brother and he sold it to get a bag of weed... I never even got a pull.

Ex-brother???

My first was a borrowed Traynor 15 (mid-late 70s, I guess) driven by a Yamaha 6-channel powered mixer from the early 70s or late 60s (I think). Believe it or not, it wasn't a bad rig.

After returning that stuff to it's rightful owner I ended up with a homemade keyboard rig that a friend of my Dad's gave me. He was a retired electrical engineer at RCA. It was a 15 with a horn (which I disconnected) and a big port - about the size of a refrigerator, and a homemede solid-state head built into an aluminum project box. It had an on/off switch and a volume knob! It sounded better than it had any right to (which still wasn't that good) and it got surprisingly loud.

I can't, for the life of me, remember where that rig ended up.

 

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Johnson amp lol. I bought it with my Stingray copy as my first bass.

Then my teacher (who also happened to be an "entrepreneur") sold me an Eden Time Traveler 10" combo, then an Eden Metro 210 combo when my band outgunned the single 10.

 

[Din Of Win]

A non-working Gorilla 30w was my first amp. It was a birthday gift with my first bass, a Harmony P. It had something wrong with it and would not work. So i played my first bass pretty much acoustically or with headphones for about 10 months until that christmas i was given a Fender 1x15 combo.

 

[JimmyThunder]

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[Tonedeaf Hack]

Fender Rumble 25, still have it.

 

[Pet Politics]

I'm not sure what brand it was, but I remember it had an 8" speaker and somewhere between 15-25 watts. For the first few months before I started playing in my first band, it worked fine. The first time I jammed with a band that amp immediately went into retirement.

My first REAL amp was a used Carvin PB 500 and 15" cab. I used some variation of that cab/amp combo for over 10 years. One night after a gig as the band was breaking down, my drunk friends dropped my amp off the 4 foot high stage. I brought it to Carvin to be repaired, but they instead they offered a pretty significant trade-in on their new line of amps that I couldn't pass up (Red Line series - 600 watts). Sound-wise, it wasn't half the amp the PB 500 was.

 

[beebassdude]

if were talking combo amp it was a crate BX100 if i remember, then it was a fender BXR 100.

first real head was a GK 800 RB.