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stupid Ampeg question

lexington125

lexington125

Sep 11, 2013
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So, Ampeg only had a booth inside the Mackie room. You walk into the booth and the solid state porta flex stuff was along the left sid and the tube amps (B15n, SVT and V4b, of multiple varieties, Heritage, classic and VR) were on the right wall. I didn't notice any guitar amps.

Then I opened up the Ampeg 2015 catalog on the train ride back to LA. Now this catalog made no mention of it being the bass amp catalog, or just a section of the larger Ampeg line. Anyone picking up this catalog would believe this was their full line. And there were NO guitar amps, no little tube amp reissues, no modern amps, nothing. Every item in that catalog was either a bass amp combo, a bass amp head or a bass amp cabinet.

Has there been a business decision that I just wasn't aware of....or do they need better copywriters?
 
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They still list the R12R, a guitar amp, in the Heritage section. This was a limited run of 100 from a couple of years ago. I don't think that it's in production but they may have some still available. It's a very nice amp.
 
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Oh no, Ampeg's known for bass amps, but their guitar amp history is pretty rich. The Reverberocket, the Jet, the Mercury, and the VT-22/V4 were their standouts. A couple years back, they also launched a new guitar amp line called the GVT series, but they were discontinued due to lack of sales.
 
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I have a GVT52-112 and it's a very nice guitar tube amp. It's too bad they didn't catch on, but so it goes. Of course, they could have built the best amp anyone ever heard but if it didn't say Marshall, Fender, Vox, or Mesa Boogie on the grill it would end up collecting dust in the corner with a clearance tag.
 
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JimmyM said:
Oh no, Ampeg's known for bass amps, but their guitar amp history is pretty rich. The Reverberocket, the Jet, the Mercury, and the VT-22/V4 were their standouts. A couple years back, they also launched a new guitar amp line called the GVT series, but they were discontinued due to lack of sales.
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Played with a guy in the later 90's that had a Reverberocket in the blue diamond tolex that sounded amazing. Loved that amp!
 
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Sounds great for metal apparently. The old guitarist for Black Breath had two full stacks of V4s. Sounded like chainsaw murderers.

 
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My first "bass" amp was an Ampeg Reverberocket guitar amp. Had a 12" Jensen. It sounded great for guitar of course, but it actually sounded pretty darn good for bass too!
Speaking of V4 guitar amps, I saw Steve Morse here in Philly several years back and he was using a V4 head and Marshall cab. Sounded just like you would expect Steve Morse to sound - awesome!
I played with a guitarist who used a VT40 guitar amp which sounded great. And back in the day when we were all playing Kustom amps, one of our neighborhood guitar players got a V4 with 2 (yes 2) V4 guitar cabs. You literally could not be in the same room with that rig when he started turning it up!
 

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