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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
1.ampeg SVT vr
2. Ampeg SVT 1000 solid state head
3. Ampeg pf50t
4. traynor YBA200(not in the best shape. Purchased used for 500 bucks
5. Fender bassman 800 hybrid
6. Fender Adam Clayton (ACB50 combo)
Cabinets are ampeg SVT HLF 410 heritage, fender rumble 410v3 and fender rumble 115.
 
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For me, currently...

1.) Mesa TT-800
2.) Little Mark III
3.) Fender Bassman 250 2x10 combo
4.) Boss Bass MicroCube
5.) Boss Katana 100
6.) Boss guitar MicroCube
7.) Boss GT-1B headphone amp
8-11.) Various Vox headphone AmPlugs

Over time, I've owned B-15's, SVT's, an Acoustic 320B, a Lab Series L4, a Music Man tube head, a Bassman head, rack gear, and a V4B.

Don't get me going on speaker cabinets... :laugh:
 
1.ampeg SVT vr
2. Ampeg SVT 1000 solid state head
3. Ampeg pf50t
4. traynor YBA200(not in the best shape. Purchased used for 500 bucks
5. Fender bassman 800 hybrid
6. Fender Adam Clayton (ACB50 combo)
Cabinets are ampeg SVT HLF 410 heritage, fender rumble 410v3 and fender rumble 115.
Honorable mention to the ones I’ve had but sold, traded or just gave away
1. Peavey 115 combo
2. Fender rumble 800 stage(traded for ampeg SVT 1000 head)
3. Darkglass alpha omega 900 with darkglass 212 cabinet
4. Laney digbeth 500
5. Ampeg pf20t ( traded the last 3 for the mint condition SVT vr)
6. Fender rumble 800 head
7. Fender bassman 500(gave these two to the church along with a peavey 410 headliner cabinet). I’m down to 6 amps and the only one I see wanting to get rid of is the traynor YBA200. Not that it’s a bad amp, I just got it on reverb and it wasn’t in the condition that it was said to be in
 
My use case is bedroom/studio.
WD-800: #1
YBA-100: I heard a rumor that someone was running 4x Shuguang GEKT88s (on spacers, with the cover left off for cooling and because it won't fit) a 12au7 driver, that it sounded really clean and beautiful like this, and that it hadn't blown up yet.
SVT-CL: #3
 
Just a solid state combo, 60 w 1x12 (and two tube guitar amps, one of wich I used to use with bass for home practice while my amp was in our rehearsal space).

Frequenting TB is always tempting me with getting a bigger (and better) rig, but I don't think I'll do it until I find myself in a situation in which my amp is really not enough for what I need.
 
Personally, all of my amps except my Bassman combo are packed in cases. I actually gig with it. ;) I know some folks here have rooms full of amps, and that's an easy pic to take. Not all of us have all of it set up all the time.
You should have taken pics when you had the chance. ;)

NO LIKES FOR YOU!!!
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That reminds me, I haven't checked the classifieds today.

Amplifiers:
Mesa Boogie D-180 all tube
Mesa WD-800 hybrid tubes/class D
Mesa TT-800 hybrid tube/class D (this one gets all the gigs)
Bergantino Forte HP Digital/class D
Aguilar Tone Hammer 700 Solid State/class D
Ampeg Micro-VR Solid State (band rehearsal room)
Hotone Thunder Bass ??? (home studio)
 
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This is the true secret GAS that the uninitiated don't know to ask about - they'll ask about basses, mebbe even pedals, but it seems never to occur to 'em to ask about amps as they seem to assume they are two big/expensive to acquire multiples ....

I have a PF50t and a Rumble 20, one of which gets used about every day in the bedio or living room. I use a PF500, or a MusicMan HD130 for jams (also wonderful on guitar), through 2x15" or a selection of 1x12's or a 1x10". I recently gave away a Ampeg B108 to a guy I jam with (IMO sounds better than the Rumble, but more colored - the Rumble is louder and takes pedals better). Then I have 3 guitar amps that I have recorded bass with (but not since getting the PF50t) - an Ampeg VT60, a Tiny Terror and a Pro, Jr., which comprise about 15-20% of my guitar amps.

Not gonna talk about DI's, pre's, simulators, cab-sims, etc. ...
 
2 tube - Fender Studio Bass & Ampeg V2

1 older solid state - Ampeb B-15T

1 older middle aged solid state - Peavey TMax

1 younger middle age solid state - GK MB150e 112

1 class D solid state - GK MB500

Those are all bass amps. I have a couple straight power amps I didn’t list.
 
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