My Very First Big-Kid Rig Celebration Thread

[rabbitfighter]

[pics to come]

After many months of deliberation, I’ve finally made what I feel have been the best choices I could for my needs on a limited budget. Just wanted to share my giddiness...

Just picked up my V-4B reissue and a (beater) SVT-410HLF is in the mail!

Quite an upgrade from my 8-inch practice combo.

What was your first “big deal” rig (and in what year)?

 

[jellymax]

That's awesome!

 

[pfschim]

great! hope you enjoy it.

in 1969 I went from an awful Baldwin Professional to a Fender Bassman running 2 spec built 15" D140F cabs. That was my first step up rig.

 

[Warpeg]

...What was your first “big deal” rig and in what year?

I won't mention the year, as to not date myself. However, I went from a 25-watt Crate practice amp to a rig comprised of the following:

• Peavey Max Preamp
• Crown Power Base 2 Power Amp
• Peavey TVX-210
• Peavey TVX-115

It was setup in a bi-amp fashion. Boy, did that rig sound like crap, but it was fun to have such a big rig for my first several gigs. I went straight to Ampeg rigs after that.

 

[SteveIII]

Technically I played live with a peavey tnt130 from 96 to 03 or so. Kept up with a loud drummer but had to keep to bass rolled down to do it. Just bought a gk 700rb-ii and made a neo 115 cab last month. Inbetween went direct into a yorkville ap3000 feeding 4 15s on 1 channel and 2 210 mains on the other. If I'm the sound guy does that make it my rig that I just let the others plug into?

 

[DirtDog]

Nice! Love the V-4B.

My first big jump was around 1999. I had a Yorkville combo and went to a SWR SM400S and WM 410 cab. That thing thundered compared to the Yorkie!

Kinda stuck with the ~500W head + cab construct ever since then.

 

[JimmyM]

Got a 73 V4B and SVT 810 from my cousin's ex-husband in 1978. Dogged that thing till it burned up in a bar fire about 11 or 12 years later. Got a new V4B now and I love it just as much as I loved the old one.

 

[Ed Byrnes]

For me it was the early 70's...I went from a Farfisa BT40 (40w keyboard amp) I found used in Sam Ash to a Kustom 200 with the 2x12 cab. Then in the late 70's a big jump up to an Acoustic 370/301.

 

[ELG60]

I bought a '69 blue-line SVT and flatback 810 cab in '78 or early '79. The Tolex was badly torn up so my dad and I recovered it in ivory colored, textured Naugahyde.

 

[chris_b]

My first rig was a 60 watt tube amp and a 412 cab that weighed as much as a small continent.

I was always intending to play live and this gave me the fire power I needed to be able to say yes to any gig that came along.

 

[dbase]

In 1969 I went from an Ampeg B18 to a Sunn 200s with 2 15" JBL's.

 

[ezstep]

From some piece of crap amp (not a "big" manufacturer) to a used Vox Essex, around 1970. IIRC, it was 35 watts, 2x12, and had two knobs - volume and tone. I played many, many gigs with that little rig. Of course, back then, a typical p.a. system was 100 watts.