What was your first amp (old guys only)

[woolysock]

My first bass amp was an Ovation, single 15 with a 100 watt transistor head.
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Also had a companion cab with speaker only. Bought around 1970.
Replaced the stock speakers with JBLs. Used to run the head with bass and treble knobs boosted.
Stacked the cabs. When using only one would often tilt it back to hear better.
Worked pretty good. Cool padded naugahyde exterior ;-) Sold both cabs in the early 80s.

 

[godofthunder59]

60's Ampeg Reverbrocket II. Kid make sure you use the accordian input LMAO!

 

[Jimmy Blue]

1970 Yamaha 100W 1-15 with a Styrofoam speaker, did not last long.
1971 Ampeg B15N should have kept it
1972 Plush 1060-S 2x15, fried that one
1973 Ampeg B25 rattle in cab
1974 Fender Bassman 135 4x12
1998 Ampeg B100r needed more headroom
2001 Eden Metro still have
2008 SVT CL w/ 410 HLF

 

[BobaFret]

My first amp was an Acoustic head with this ridiculously large 18" speaker cab. I didn't realize until much later that it would have been good to keep around.

 

[pbagley]

Standell 1-15 combo. I had a penchant for "improving" things in those days. I added a jack for a second speaker - very bad idea. Plugged in a second speaker (parallel) and blew up the amp. Inside the amp were blocks of plastic with the tips of caps and transistors showing. No user serviceable parts. Last I knew the head section was still in the garage. The drummer took the cab section off my hands back in '76 or so.

- Paul

 

[Calaverasgrande]

Did I post on this already? I cant find it.
Well my first was a Fender Bass master or something like that. It was a big old tube combo that blew up for no good reason at very moderate level. Silverface IIRC, I picked it up with a white precision at a garges sale for $100 of lawnmowing money when I was 15. After that my mom bugged her friend Art Neville into giving/lending me a Kustom PA head which I used for about 6 months until it also went up in puff of grey smoke. I should have read the cards that fate daelt me and quit then!
I finally talked my way into a Peavey TKO65 combo which was about as loud as anything else I had tried, but would NOT blow up.

 

[millsbass5]

For Christmas (1976),my parents purchased from my cousin: Acoustic 370 with an Ampeg 4x12 (model?) cab that had the same dimensions (I think) of an SVT 8x10 cab. It was originally a guitar cab,but it was loaded with JBL bass speakers. I wish I still had it. Great tone. Man,that thing could really push some air.

 

[dscott11]

My first amp was taken from an old Capehart AM/FM/SW radio. The speaker was a 12" that had no magnet, but instead, used a field coil to provide the magnetism for the voice coil. I built a 1/2" plywood box for the amp and similar material for the speaker cab (which didn't hold together very well).
It was heavy!

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[delta7fred]

Did I post on this already?

If you can't remember then you are old enough to post, I had the same problem so have probably posted at least twice!

 

[foderaman]

First Bass amp was a Sunn 200S and a Sunn 2-15 Cab with JBL D140,s.Got it in 1969 from Bob Heil in Marissa IL it was called Ye Olde Music Shoppe he went on to supply the Who with there PA System!

 

[Lowbrow]

Awful "Pax" 1-15 combo, followed by a Fender Bassman 50 head into a huuuuge bottom-ported Kasino 2x15. That cab was so oversized that the speakers looked like pinpricks compared to the size of the box

 

[Silaxian]

My first amp was taken from an old Capehart AM/FM/SW radio. The speaker was a 12" that had no magnet, but instead, used a field coil to provide the magnetism for the voice coil. I built a 1/2" plywood box for the amp and similar material for the speaker cab (which didn't hold together very well).
It was heavy!

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I assume, Sir, that you are old enough to remember when rocks were mud?

No disrespect intended, of course. Going down that road rather rapidly myself.

 

[Dr. Eagle]

A Supro Thunderbolt...

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[Bassguitarbubba]

1972 Earth Amp. Bought it new when I was 14. It was black tuck n roll. Tube head on a cab. Can't remember the speaker configuration, may have been 2-15's or 2-12's. I sold it in '75. Probably one of the worst things I could have done.

 

[Sav'nBass]

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this one.. got it in 77 when I first started playing.

 

[stiles72]

Mine was an old PA tube amp and speaker set that our church had when I was a little kid. Eventually they got something new and said I could just have it. At the time I didn't play bass or guitar, but I used it to play my tape recorder through it. The speaker set looked like they were from the 40's or 50's, and were reddish brownish in color. They were open back, but latched together very much like these:
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I don't remember whatever happened to the speakers, but I still have the tube head, which I painted and stuck new knobs on sometime when I was 12 or 13.

 

[RickBlair]

My first bass amp was a Gibson Atlas combo with a 15" speaker. 40 watt tube amp and the amp was trapezoidal shaped. Had a leg in tha back for tilting. I had to have it repaired almost right away after buying it (new) and the shop replaced some strange-looking 4-stack potentiometer that looked like had every wire in the amp connected to it. I never liked the sound of the amp after the repair.

One of the power tubes would glow bright blue once in a while and look like it was going to explode but a sharp rap to the top of the cab usually fixed it.

Rick B.

 

[smithplyr]

1969 Ampeg SVT W/SVT 8-10 AND B15 w 2-15

 

[xk49w]

AA165 Bassman. I don't remember the cab - not stock through, decidedly poo-ish.

 

[ulynch]

In 1983 I spent my whole high school savings account on a Peavey Centurion Mark III 130w head, and an 1820 cab. Bought them spankin new at Good n Loud Music in Madison, WI. Rock solid and lasted nearly a decade.

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