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List your 1st 3 amps.

#164
First: Yamaha GA-10. Not good. Given to me for free by my first teacher
Second: Fender Rumble 25. A lot better. Still use it when I don't want to lug around my...
Third: Ampeg BA-210. I love this amp! Great tones and I can really make it snarl with my Jazz or my Ibanez. The built-in overdrive is sick.
 
#168
Started playing bass after playing guitar for years, so had a decent idea of what I was getting into :) I was playing in church mostly, and using the house Fender 400 combo, which was a great rig honestly.

1. Ampeg SVT3 Pro and 410 HLF. Muddy, undefined, heavy. Probably should have kept the head, but got rid of both eventually. Used the head with a Aguilar GS112 for a bit, lacked mids (again)
2. SWR LA10 practice combo- got sent to Tampa for a "deployment" and needed an amp. Still have this one, use it near my work bench for testing.
3. Fender 800 Pro and Avatar Neo 410- An honestly amazing combo, great pre amp and plenty of power combined with a wide frequency response and light weight. Anothe rone I should have held on to, but was taking a long break when kids came along, and had an LM2 and Avatar 210 that was fine.
 
#169
Ampslut said:
There is a post on the "Bass Guitar" page asking us to list our 1st 3 basses, I thought list our 1st 3 amps might be fun. I started playing in 1969 so some of you may never have heard of these.

1) Challenger PA head with home made 2x15 cab. Got the Utah speakers at Lafayette Radio. My uncle and I had no idea how to build cabinets and it was huge and sounded terrible.
2) Silvertone 25 watt tube head with silvertone 6x10 cab loaded with Jensens.
3) Fender Bassman with 2x12 small cab. It sounded great as long as you didn't get too loud.
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1) Lafayette: 5 watt and totally indestructible
2) Silvertone:1-12 great advanced hobbiest amp.
3) Kustom 100: Yeah, the padded one with matched 2-15 cab.

Too bad we have to stop at 3
 
#172
0. Borrowed vintage Ampeg Portaflex B-15
1. [My first rig] Trace Elliot Series 6 AH200 with Pearce 115 and Fender Bassman 115 cabs, later Trace Elliot 2102 and 1153 cabs.
2. [My first tube rig] Trace Elliot V-Type 220 W head with Trace Elliot 1248H 4x12 cab
3. [My first rack system] SWR Interstellar Overdrive preamp, JoeMeek VC1Qcs channel strip, Trace Elliot V-Type Rackmount Preamp and Power 750 power amp, with the Trace Elliot cabs (above)
4. [current] Mesa/Boogie Walkabout Scout 12 combo (or the head with the Trace Elliot 4x12).
5. [The last rig I plan to ever buy] Mesa/Boogie Subway WD-800 or D-800+ with Subway Ultra-lite cabs TBD.

Once upon a time, I had planned to also add a SansAmp RBI to that rack, but it never happened.

Honestly, I should have just stopped with the AH200 and the two 1x15s. Nothing I've owned since has sounded *better*, just *different*.
 
#175
A Jordan Bass Amp, 60 watts solid state with a single 15”
speaker, followed by a Fender Bassman Silverface, with the large cab containing two JBL
D-140s. The loudest 50 watt
I’ve played!
I custom designed, and had
a talented Wood Artist build me 2
cabinets, horned ports, big
inset handles, with a single Cerwin Vega 15incher per cab.
Four hundred watts handling per speaker. Topped by the classic Ampeg SVT!
 
#177
1. Pre-Fender SWR Workingman's 15 combo (Blue-face with Red Logo). I still have it and am currently refinishing the cabinet. I loved this thing just for the washing machine look. The SWR sound is something I have since evolved away from.

2. Ashdown Mag 300R-first gen/Peavey Tour 450. 2 Hartke 410 Transporter cabs. My early 20s and budget was what it was all about. These heads probably could have served me better if I had a little more inclination towards EQ at the time.

3. Hartke LH500 and Crate ? 215 cab. The Hartke LH line of heads will pair well with just about any speaker cab that can handle their output. This set up was perfect for the punk band I was in at the time. I actually regret selling that cabinet as it was much like it's Ampeg 215 brother, and made of actual plywood.


These days I am a LH1000 with Ampeg SVT 212AV and Avatar B210 kind of guy.
 
#180
New - '68 Bassman...not great, but it sufficed.
New - '72 Bassman Ten...really not good at all, but at least it was smaller, and sufficed for my small gigs.
Used - GK 800RB over various JBL-loaded DIY cabs...usually TL606 (115) enclosures.

I still have all of these amps, but I lost the 215 Bassman cab that came with the '68 to theft.
 

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