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The Awesome Show Off Your Amp Thread!!

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Fender Highway 1 Jazz

Mesa Boogie Buster 200
Marshall JCM800 2x15

everything is stock here.


this is my current set up. I will be ditching the Mesa Boogie Buster 200 for a Marshall Super Bass in a couple months.
 
Wow, what a crappy pic. I'll get a nice and proper one tomorrow. Anyways, here's a shot of my Bag End S15D/S15XD stack topped with a Genz Benz Streamliner 900. Next to it are my Aguilar GS112's for size comparison.

I just got the BE cabs, so they'll be gigged tomorrow night for the first time!

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Back in '84 when I was at BIT in Hollywood we had a Peavey Max in the big performance room, P2. That was at the old campus back when the school was on Hollywood Boulevard before the move to McCadden. Anyway, most of the rooms had Acoustic 360 heads with folded horn enclosures and Peavey Mace 2x12" combos for the guitar players. Those Mace combos ran six 6L6 tubes for about 160 watts of death ray and you could barely hear yourself play on the Acoustic rigs. But in P2 with the Peavey Max it just never seemed to run out of steam.

I was walking around in the Tampa Guitar Center today and saw an old Peavey Max sitting in the used gear. I had no way to resist its call. These things were essentially a Peavey CS-800 400-watt per channel stereo PA amp with a bass preamp feeding it all packed up in a (not so) little rack case. They wanted $200 for it and there was no way I could pass it up. Still sounds exactly the way I remember it from all those years ago. Seen here riding my old Sunn 212LH and Gauss 5181 cabs. Now if I only had a roadie...

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I'd love to see it all together at once but it's never happened yet... :(

big rig:
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medium rig:
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upright rigs (not pictured is the B15's '66 BT15 Thiele extension cab)
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practice rig:
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Special props to my guitar rig too. That Marshall 410 with '69 SVT CTS speakers in it roars with a bass through that Twister or purrs with my JTM-60.

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As awesome as it sounded, I got tired of hauling around my DIY 2x10/1x15 rig. So, I downsized to a 2x12 floor wedge instead. I've used it at two gigs so far, one indoors and one outdoors. It sounds awesome, and placing it on the side of the stage it interferes with the FOH sound much less than my old rig did. Check it out:

Old Rig:
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New Rig:
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oooo i haven't seen this thread yet! wow you guys have awesome stuff. i think all of the gear i've ever owned combined wouldn't be worth as much as some of those rigs! but here's mine, i never miss achance to show off my baby!
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