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What was your first amp (old guys only)

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Another vote for the old Sears Silvertone.
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Piggyback, great radio reception, open back with one 15, the head tucked into a recess in the back for easy moving and storage. Terrible bass amp, but I've seen them on Ebay touted as great tube-sound guitar rigs. Next was a '73 Peavey Standard solid state (guitar) head with a Peavey 215 (reloaded with EVMs). Still sits in my basement (many rigs later). It's been used by everyone on the block (who's willing to move that refrigerator of a cab). Never needed service (more like: It just wouldn't go away!). It has its flaws, but can actually pump a fairly passable P sound.
 
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Jon R said:
I was so young and dumb then (about 1967 - '68) that I didn't even know what I really had. It was a Vox combo amp, with tubes. It stood about waist high and had its own little cart to move it around with. I have no idea of a model number, wattage, or number/size of the speakers... but it sounded great. Wish I still had it!
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Vox Super Beatle!I knew what I had then.
Underpowered piece of crap.
Frustrating to play. Noisy, no guts, no glory. Sad.
:(
After that, a Fender Bassman. That lasted about 3 weeks.
Then came an Ampeg SVT. Too much too soon.
Didn't care for it a bit.
But then..I played an Acoustic 360( make that 2 of them) with a 4x10 cab( That's 2x 18+ 4x10 for those of you too young to know.) The year was 1970.
Now we are talking!!!
Miss that 360.
:)
 
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Going back some 28 years, It was a HH head (with green lihgt on the board) and RCF 15" speaker (in a home-made box like a big fridge). Instead preamp there was a little equalizer. With Hagstrom JB fretless sound was mmmmmmmm
 
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I first plugged into a Heathkit Hi-Fi. It had a separate tuner/inputs for a phono, and a separate tube amp. It fed a HUGE cabinet with a Altec Lansing 15" co-axial speaker.

Then a Univox Minimax amp (open back, 15", 100watts into 4 ohm)

Then a '67 Fender Bassman 50. The cabinet is currently doing subwoofer duty in my bathroom.;)
 
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Brico said:
Going back some 28 years, It was a HH head (with green lihgt on the board) and RCF 15" speaker (in a home-made box like a big fridge). Instead preamp there was a little equalizer. With Hagstrom JB fretless sound was mmmmmmmm
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Oh God, I'd forgotten those! Talk about 15 minutes of fame. They we're the future for a while back then. Who's got a photo? And what did HH stand for???
 
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Univox 1x12 Solid State Combo I think my mom got it from Sam Goodies hahahhah My first good amp was a Ampeg b25b with two 215 cabinets, but I traded the head with a keyboard player for a v4b head.
P.S I'm still using a Acustic 370 amp with the 301 cab
 
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TheCreature said:
Nostalgia time

National 2x8" with a 2x8" extension cabinet, cir. 1967. God I wish I still had that amp.

Followed by an EMC w/ 3-12s around 1970. Blew it up regularly.

Anybody else?
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with the 2x12 cabinet. Positively anaemic by today's standards. Guitar players love them cause they break up so easily.

After that, it was Ampegs - B15S, a V4B, an SVT, a Leslie (very briefly), then rackmount Ashley stuff with big freaking poweramps (plural), JBL cabaret cabs, crossovers, etc (400 lb rig), then Trace, then Eden (evil) / Aguilar, now Eden / Bergantino, soon to be Avalon or Millenia / Berg IP's.

Cheers,
Cameron
 
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