Early 70's -bought it used- Carvin 100watt head with 4x12 cab-------->
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What was your first amp (old guys only)
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1969 Kustom 200 Red Sparkle Roll 'n' Tuck with a 2x15 cab w/CTS woofs.
Mine was Blue, that amp spent more time in the shop! Next rig was Ampeg V4B and SVT
A Vox Buckingham. It wasn't even a bass amp, but at 14 (in 1974), I didn't seem to care. You can see it in the background in a picture taken from my first gig ever.
My first rig in junior high was a DuKane PA amp run thru a couple of 8"cabs. I was playing a short scale supro bass at the time. It lasted about three months, Next up was as silver colored Supro combo. I don't remember the model but it was a 15" with the controls in the back. 60 watts? When You cranked it up the speaker cloth would vibrate like hell. I lived with that until junior year of high school when I managed to get my hands on used Fender blackface DualShowman. to go with my pawnshop-purchased p-bass. Tone Heaven at Last!!!
Silvertone tube reverb amp ,maybe 30 watts with a homemade 2x12 about he size of a refrigerator.
Then a blond Bassman with a small 2x12.
They were both anemic.
You had to settle for good quiet tone or sound like a loudish fart.
When I got a 90 watt Traynor with 2 6x10's it was a pretty good rig, with no headroom left.
Then a blond Bassman with a small 2x12.
They were both anemic.
You had to settle for good quiet tone or sound like a loudish fart.
When I got a 90 watt Traynor with 2 6x10's it was a pretty good rig, with no headroom left.
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Sears Silvertone Piggy Back AMP . Gray tolex type material. 15 inch woofer, separate head about 25 watts or so? Loved it but can't remember what happened to it. I think I gave it to my Brother in Law. My first gig worthy amp was an Ampeg B-25B with 2x15 cab. Loved that amp and that was a very special Christmas. That with a fender Music Master Bass. You couldn't tell me nothing. I WAS Ronald Kool Bell from Kool and The Gang . Unfortunately the Ampeg was destroyed in a mysterious house fire when I was in college. I don't think the neighbors took too kindly to all the boom boom shae the room.
. Gray tolex type material. 15 inch woofer, separate head about 25 watts or so? Loved it but can't remember what happened to it. I think I gave it to my Brother in Law. My first gig worthy amp was an Ampeg B-25B with 2x15 cab. Loved that amp and that was a very special Christmas. That with a fender Music Master Bass. You couldn't tell me nothing. I WAS Ronald Kool Bell from Kool and The Gang . Unfortunately the Ampeg was destroyed in a mysterious house fire when I was in college. I don't think the neighbors took too kindly to all the boom boom shae the room.
Peavey Mark III combo.
Not sure what year it was, but it was old and it made the rounds... I think every one of my friends owned it at one point or another until I sold it to a store that doesn't exist anymore.
Not sure what year it was, but it was old and it made the rounds... I think every one of my friends owned it at one point or another until I sold it to a store that doesn't exist anymore.
First amp was an Ampeg GV-22, matched well with my '65 Moserite guitar (still have). First bass amp was a Music Man w/ 1x15" speaker. Blew up that speaker a few times so put in an Altec Lansing. From their I used a Kustom w/ 1x18" folded horn, replaced the cab with a 2x15" ProCo Sound cab. Then moved on to Ampeg SVT's with my Kustom and a B25 for practice amps. Later used the B25 as a preamp to a bunch of Crown power amps feeding 2x15, 1x18, and horns.
65 bassman,....my mom bought me that and a 63 jazz for $300 bucks from Driver Music in OKC. I'd trade a kidney to have those back!
A traditional 50w Fender Bassman Silverface piggyback, 2x15 cab. I bought it used in Charlotte, NC for $280 (I think) in 1973 when I was in the ninth grade. It had "Soul Invaders" stenciled on the back in Pink.
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Wow I have to think about that....my 1st amp that I used for bass was a 30watt amp my uncle built and designed with 2 home made cabs w/15". Now for a name brand amp, my 1st one was a Fender Bassman 50 Silverface.
According to the post above we are born in the same year and started playin bass at the same age.
I just read around for fun in this thread, and, hey, it is fun!
I already told the community in an earlier post, that my first real amp was a 100 Watt F.A.L. Kestrel - Combo with a single 15'', an ugly, heavy and crappy-sounding S.O.B.I bought it in the age of 13 in the year 1974. The speaker flapped out after 2 weeks, so I bought an Elektrovoice 15 B for the amp. The sound was not improved.
As I did have to play against a brand new Vox AC 30 and some Sears-Type guitard-combo, I decidet to get me a more powerfull amp. So I bought a chinese (at least some kind of asian, I am sure) copy of the Acoustic 200, another solid state amp. I don't remember the name, some things you don't want to remember. The sound was a bit louder, but crap as before.
A friend sold a Marshall single 18''-cab, big as a closet and heavy as concrete. Only low end, no tone. So I swapped the cab in a musicstore for a Peavey 215'' after a short time, this was a real improvement. For the first time I had an idea how a bass should sound like. This happened in the early 1978.
About one year later I gave the amp away and bought a GK 800 RB + a copy of a Musicman 212''-cab. Todether with the Peavey 215'' this was my first good rig, and about 2 years later I purchased a second, identical fullstack, because I "needet" one on every side of the drumriser. I used this double fullstack for about five years, when one of the GK 800 RB went up in flames - on stage. Some people thought, this was a part of the show. I was not happy at all.
I sold all the stuff except the 800 RB and purchased my beloved sealed 410'' the musicstore did built with the specs and woofers of an Ampeg 810 flatback dividet in half. I love this cab and use it until today for vintage sounds.
Enough for today, but I can tell you that the journey did not end at all.
My first "real" bass amp was a Standel 100 watt amp with a single 15" speaker. This was purchased about 1965. I used this amp until I bought my first Ampeg SVT about 1971.
First amp was a T-Power practice amp. It was either a 6" or 8" speaker with roughly 30 watts. Got it with a new Dean Playmate series P-bass knockoff; late 1988. Then stepped up to a Yorkville Bloc 150B 100 watt 1x15 combo and a Washburn Axxess P/J bass with active electronics in 1990. Have had many since then.
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