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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
2 Markbass heads and a Hartke combo. A player, a backup, and a combo for band practice. Wrong thread to admit this on, but i have a pedal board going direct to the board, so my amp is a stage monitor at best. So close to ampless with my current band I might as well be. Gotta keep amps around in case the direct to PA gig falls apart.
 
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and a Baby Sumo - no pic, yet.
10 amps.
 

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Mesa Boogie Walkabout
Mesa Boogie Subway Tt-800
JoYo Bantamp Badass (small 50 watt head w/tube)
Fender Rumble 25
Hotone Thunder Bass.


The JoYo is kind of sweet for a little fooling around and not pissing off the neighbors haha. I run them through a Acoustic BN210 Neodymium. I shrunk a cab and like the portability of the 210 with the Mesa Boogie Subway.
 
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After the downsizing sell-off over the last couple years, I'm down to two amp heads: the Genzler Magellan 800 and 350. The cabs are Genzler BA12-3 and BA10-2, and a Baer ML112. Lots of combinations here. The "small" rig (MG 350 and BA10-2 combo) gets the most action, for bigband rehearsals, jazz jam sessions, and playing at home. For performances, the MG 800 and the BA12-3 have been awesome. At the next outdoor performance I'll check out running both Genzler cabs. I could run all three, if they all fit in the car.
 
Small to large:
66 ampeg SB-12
Traynor yba-1a
Ampeg B-40 (70s ss head)
72 V4b

2 1-15 Sunn clones, one with a jbl D-140 one with an eminence legend
1 peavey 1-15 (70s era, eminence legend)
1 Seymour Duncan 8-5” weirdo Bose 801 clone

Cabinets mixed and matched as needed
 
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For heads:

Trace Elliot V6
Mesa Prodigy
Peavey VB-2
Darkglass Exponent 500
Ampeg SVT1000

Cabs:
Bergantino NV610
Bergantino NV212
Gallien Kreuger neo 212
Avatar 410


Combos:

Ibanez SW25

"Big Show" rig is the Trace V6 and the NV610
"Smaller Show" rig is for bars and clubs is the Prodigy and the NV212
Exponent is my backup head in my gig bag, just in case.
Other rigs are for practice spaces and such.
 
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An SVT Classic. With a SVT 610. And a 7Pro with a SVT 410He. I mix the cabs with the 7pro. But the Classic gets the 610 (4ohms). Thinking about the 2 410he's I usually have used. But I have spent Way too much money on my 610/Classic setup as of late. Thinking about trading the 610 tho ???