TRYING TO FIND A RARE AMP!!!

[KevInDaBassment]

It's a shame they sound so bad, I can see the aesthetic of a rig covered in "Gorilla Hair" (as opposed to "Rat Fur") would be pretty gnarly. Give it some tubby, thumpy oldschool tone right out the box and it would be pretty cool IMO.

Hmm....bet somebody would part with the brand name pretty cheap. Anybody wanna start an amp company? I'll be the pitch man and somebody else can do all the real work of designing a bass amp and cabinet

 

[sunburst79]

"It's shaggy, smelly, and sounds terrible. The tiny 6" speakers fart out pretty quick and the tube overdrive is awful. It's awesome"

Funk Authentic

 

[higain617]

Couldn't find any for sale but thought I'd add some pics. Not exactly it but probably close. TC-40LH. Gnarly but cool looking.

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Wow! I haven't seen that. It's like it came hirsute from the factory.

My first guitar amp was a Gorilla. It sounded really bad, but to each their own.

 

[jthisdell]

If your tone was centered on flat sounding chainsaw can of bees speaker flapping cabinet rattling over the top filth they did to that well. In retrospect they sounded a lot like a maxed out Boss HM2 Metal Pedal. I suspect a high percentage blew their own speakers or cabinets apart.

It's shaggy, smelly, and sounds terrible. The tiny 6" speakers fart out pretty quick and the tube overdrive is awful.

I can understand nostalgia to a certain extent but there are no bass amps from my youth that I would be interested in owning again. I do own the 71 P that I bought used in 76.

 

[frankie5string]

One of the old low-power LAB bass amps would probably get you pretty close. They tend to be head-cab and go cheaply.
My brother had a Gorilla guitar amp. When it stopped powering up, I opened it up to look inside and there were a few things about the power and amp circuits that made me not want to ever plug it in again. it had horrible solder-work and some leaking components.

 

[NeonDis75]

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From the listing:

Gorilla TC-40 mini full stack with 2 x 6" slant cab and 2 x 6" speaker cabinet. Get your novelty mini full stack without spending $500+ on a marshall. It's shaggy, smelly, and sounds terrible. The tiny 6" speakers fart out pretty quick and the tube overdrive is awful. It's awesome.



According to the interwebs AI, no Gorilla bass amp like that ever existed. The bass amps for Gorilla consisted of the GB-20, 30, and 70 all Bass/Keyboard combo amps. The only thing close is the TC 40 head and cabinets above.

Thanks for your info, but I definitely owned one that had two cabs each with a 12. Have video footage from back when I was 13. Gonna keep looking, hoping I can find one.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Thanks for your info, but I definitely owned one that had two cabs each with a 12. Have video footage from back when I was 13. Gonna keep looking, hoping I can find one.

You might if you can post your video. It could give us more information.

From the interwebs AI:
AI Overview

Information about a Gorilla bass amp with two 1x12 cabinets and an amp head is extremely limited, as Gorilla primarily manufactured low-wattage, solid-state practice amplifiers and small combos
. No evidence of a specific Gorilla bass amp head and matching 1x12 cabinets could be found. It is most likely that such a rig does not exist. The following reviews and historical context may shed some light on what you have heard or seen.

What is a Gorilla amp?
Gorilla amplifiers were a brand of budget, solid-state practice amps from the 1980s and 1990s, later acquired by Pignose. They gained a notorious reputation for their low quality and are often humorously referred to as some of the "worst amps ever made" in online guitar forums.

What might you have encountered?
It's probable that the setup you saw was not a complete Gorilla-branded stack but a more common practice rig with elements that might be mistaken for Gorilla gear. It is highly unlikely that Gorilla produced a dedicated bass head, especially one powerful enough to drive two extension cabinets.

It is possible that:

• The rig was a bass head and cabs from a different manufacturer entirely, and the owner had used Gorilla-branded gear in the past, leading to confusion.
• The rig was a different brand with a similar-sounding name, such as the now-defunct Kong Gorilla Cage 112 cabinet, which was rated for bass guitar use.
• A bass player was using two Gorilla GB-30 combo amps as separate practice cabinets. However, this is not a recommended setup as the combo's internal 12-inch speaker is not optimized for bass and has limited headroom.

Review of the Gorilla GB-30
If what you encountered was the common Gorilla GB-30 combo amp, here is an overview of its characteristics, based on musician forums and user reviews:

• Wattage: Though marketed as 30 watts, some units were labeled as 50 watts on the back panel.
• Best use case: The GB-30 is primarily a practice amp for bassists on a very tight budget. It is not suitable for band rehearsals or live performances.
• Construction: Users report that the build quality is flimsy, with fragile plastic parts.
• Tone: The tone has been described as "distorted" with "no punch" in the bottom end. A "slap boost" feature is included, but it does not improve the overall tone significantly.
• Reliability: With poor construction and limited headroom, the amps are prone to failure, especially when pushed to higher volumes.

Maybe something over here:

Finally: the Official Gorilla Amps Owners Thread

Finally, a thread for the ultimate 80'ies practice amp/door stop! Don't be shy, share your collection of Gorilla amps. What are your favourite models? Do you love the built-in chorus? I think it's on par with the roland jazz chorus, especially with the Analogman mods. And how about the...

www.thegearpage.net

 

[NeonDis75]

Here are some really low-quality pics from a school dance I played in April of 1992. In the three live photos, I have it where the head and top speaker are on one side of the stage, and the other cabinet is on the other side of the stage. In the blurry photo from a band practice in 1990, I have it as a stack.

 

[Major Seven]

Yes.

I'm looking at asking prices and chuckling. I remember 79.00 new as retail on the guitar amps. I never owned one. A acquaintance came back from college with the guitar version and a Arion Hot Watt. My memory is there was a button or knob labeled "Turbo". All things in the eighties had to have a "Turbo" mode

If your tone was centered on flat sounding chainsaw can of bees speaker flapping cabinet rattling over the top filth they did to that well. In retrospect they sounded a lot like a maxed out Boss HM2 Metal Pedal. I suspect a high percentage blew their own speakers or cabinets apart.

I can remember seeing this bass stack in a AMS catalog or someplace.

I do believe that these may be the first amps with rat fur I saw in person. I will say the one pictured is resplendent in luxurious rat fur.

Copiously thatched it is.

. All things in the eighties had to have a "Turbo" mode

I once installed a toilet flapper valve labeled turbo.

 

[Major Seven]

"It's shaggy, smelly, and sounds terrible. The tiny 6" speakers fart out pretty quick and the tube overdrive is awful. It's awesome"

That's Mojo.

This is an accurate description of the little amps that come in the Glarry starter package for $120

 

[DJ Bebop]

Here are some really low-quality pics from a school dance I played in April of 1992. In the three live photos, I have it where the head and top speaker are on one side of the stage, and the other cabinet is on the other side of the stage. In the blurry photo from a band practice in 1990, I have it as a stack.

It looks like your head might be the Tube Cruncher based on your photo

The 1x12 speaker cabinets I don't know. Perhaps they are a Pignose-Gorilla hybrid as Pignose acquired Gorilla in 1985.

 

[NeonDis75]

It looks like your head might be the Tube Cruncher based on your photo

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The 1x12 speaker cabinets I don't know. Perhaps they are a Pignose-Gorilla hybrid as Pignose acquired Gorilla in 1985.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. Wish I could get ahold of one of those heads. Will keep searching

 

[DJ Bebop]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. Wish I could get ahold of one of those heads. Will keep searching

You are looking for a Tube Cruncher TC-40LH head.

 

[NeonDis75]

You are looking for a Tube Cruncher TC-40LH head.

I will pick up one of those heads you described. I am so excited to have this Tube Cruncher TC-40 LH again. Thanks for your work

 

[DJ Bebop]

I will pick up one of those heads you described. I am so excited to have this Tube Cruncher TC-40 LH again. Thanks for your work

Now this ad does refer to it as a bass amp…

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