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How many amps do you guys own?

How many amps (including combos) do you currently own

  • One and done

    Votes: 147 12.8%
  • 2 to 3 for options and backups

    Votes: 531 46.4%
  • 4 to 6 because I can

    Votes: 330 28.8%
  • I am the crazy cat lady of amps, I don't really know anymore.

    Votes: 97 8.5%
  • Ampless!!

    Votes: 14 1.2%
  • Other (explain below)

    Votes: 25 2.2%

  • Total voters
    1,144
This is all I own.

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Any excuse to make a list, I'm in:
Heads- Mesa Walkabout, Mesa M3 Carbine
Cabs- Aguilar DB112nt, DB210, Genz Benz Uber 212
Combo's- Ampeg Ba112, Roland KC350, Trace Elliot Boxer, GK BL110, Fender Blue's Jr, Vox Pathfinder Bass 10.
Now, if the list included all the gear I *used* to own........
 
Thunderfunk 750 and 550
Orange terror bass 500
Crest ca6/Eden Navigator
GnK 400rbIII
Peavey pro pre/Sundholm 3000 (Conrad Sundholm of Sunn fame made these in the 80's)
Hartke

Mesa boogie walkabout scout w/extension cab stack

4 Aguilar gs112s
Berg htt322
Acme lowb2
Dr b.ass 2460
Schroeder bmf 2x12
GnK 1x15
 
One vintage swr electric blue head 120/150 watts 8/4 - often used as a preamp but mostly for practice and small gigs.

A stewart 2.1 poweramp badly in need of repair of one channel. (so it's semi-retired)

A demeter 201s and QSC PLX 1602 poweramp (main rig) these are very light in a 4 space shallow calzone rack, although i may part them out into two very convenient 2 space skb racks.

Two Bag end S15 cabs and two Bag End S12 cabs. Generally i use one of one or the other type for small gigs, and one of each for most gigs. I schlep out 3 or 4 for big gigs and almost always go vertical. (looks silly - sounds great). Phase response differences between the S15 and S12 cabs are unknown to me, but if there is constructive and destructive interference this seems to be one of the happy accidents where this sounds good!

So at the end of the day, not much - just one big modular setup.
 
'65 Ampeg SB-12
Sunn Coliseum 300 w/Sunn 8028 cab
Energy 1x15 (McCaulley) sounds great weighs a ton
'95 Trace Elliot AH350SMX w/TE 2X10 and 1X15 cabs.. model numbers escape me at the moment.
GK MB150E
Fender Sidekick (freebie from the '80s when I bought a Strat)
I may have other stuff in storage.... not sure.
 
been downsizing to only having this now:

Studio work:
'62 ampeg sb12
Aguilar db680

Small jazz/blues club gigs:
GK mb500-2
GK MB150S
ebs neo 112 cab

Rock/ large gigs:
mesa boogie bass 400+
Ultimate ears custom in-ears
ampeg svt410 cab
 
i have no idea of how many i have. i lost count after about 20 of them. i guess it's time to take inventory......;)

here's what i have the last time i checked:

Amps:
'69 SVT
'07 SVT-VR
'64 B15N
'71 V4B
'72 Ampeg VT40
'66 Fender Bassman
'55 Fender Bassman (4X10)
'57 Fender tweed Deluxe
'65 Fender Deluxe Reverb
'67 Showman w/K140 tone ring showman cab
'68 Dual Showman w/K140 tone ring showman cab
'72 Baldwin B-1
Sunn 200S
Sunn 190B
Sunn 2000S
Sunn Coliseum
1954 Fender Pro
1955 Fender Champ
1958 Fender Deluxe
1962 Fender Concert
Fender 400PS
Fender 300PS
Fender Super Twin (Bass head)
GK 1001RBII
Custom 180 watt Tube Super Beatle
Yamaha BBT500H
Genz Benz GBE-600
Eden WT550B
Kustom K200B
Heathkit TA-38
Silvertone Bass 150
Acoustic 320 (1981)
Acoustic 370 (1975)
Acoustic 220 head (1977)


Cabs:
Accugroove El Whappo Jr.
Ampeg 8x10
Ampeg V4 (4x12 2512's)
Sunn 2x15 (K140's)
Sunn 1x18
Fender 2x15 (K140's)
Fender Bassman 2x15 (K140's)
Fender Bassman 2x12
Vox Custom 1212/6
Vox Super Beatle (2x15 JBL K140's)
two 2x10 sealed cabs w/2510's
EV TL606
2X Acoustic 408 (4x15's -one stock, one with K140's)

Rack rigs:
Preamps:
Demeter HPB-1J
Ashly BP-41
Yamaha PB-1
Sansamp PSA 1
Sansamp PSA
Sansamp RPM
Avalon VT-737SP
Art Pro Channel
Alembic F1-X
Focusrite Tone Factory
Focusrite ISA430 MKII
UA 6176
Neve 1060 (x2)


Compressors:
Empirical Labs EL-8 (x2)
Urie 1176LN (x2)
Aphex 661
Aphex 651 (x2)
Drawmer DL241
Ashly DPX100
Ashly DPX200
Ashly CLX51
DBX 160X
DBX 160 VU
Rane DC24
SPL Transient Designer 4

Power Amps:
Crown xti1000 (x2)
Crown xti2000 (x3)
Urei 6500