What was your first Bass Amp?

[BLDavis]

MY first bass amp was a home-made combo with a 12" speaker and an unknown amp chassis. It had both vol and tone controls. The cab was actually a wodden dresser drawer with a hole cut in it for the speaker and the amp was screwed in to the box facing backwards. What a juicy tone that must have been with my Western Auto copy of a Teisco bass.
B.

 

[amimbari]

my first amp, used it for a few years till I bought my 2nd amp, ( my first amp was my Dad's )

still have them both 20 years later

second ( or first storebought amp ):

.

 

[RonSound]

A Harmony B1200 combo amp from JC Penney. I still have it, along with the Global EB3 copy I got at the same time (Xmas 1980).

 

[Thor]

Mine was, I mean is, an Acoustic 140 head and a 106
2 x 15 cab. Vintage 1975.

I still own this beast even though it is in my buddy's basement. The cab alone is 135 lbs.


For a 100 watt head, it is STUPIDLY LOUD.

Invalid Link Removed


Invalid Link Removed

 

[gregoire1]

1985 Peavey Basic 50. Traded it for 2 guitar cords about 7 yrs ago, I'm sure it still works perfectly for whoever owns it now.

 

[cadduc]

a premier 1 x 15 bass combo
i truly wish i knew what happened to that
not much of a bass amp but a fine guitar amp

bf bassman/ 2x 12
blond showman
bf showman
ampeg svt's

 

[Mystic Michael]

First bass amp? Don't wanna talk about it...

MM

 

[FenderAmpeg]

Fender Rumble 15 I think it's a 1x8

 

[rcarraher]

Ask this question on Bass forum also.Played thru several small guitar amps,but first real Bass Amp was an old Peavey 110

A mid- late 60's Bandmaster. PITA to haul around the cab, but it did fit in the back seat (Under the hatchback) of a VW Rabbit!

 

[richmoore1998]

1st amp was a Garnet - "The Deputy"... can't remember specs or anything but I know it had a 15 in it... hilarious... would love to play through one now to see what it was like...

 

[iriegnome]

My first amp was an Acoustic 126 Combo amp. What a great amp. I am sorry I sold it... Wish I could find another one.. Don't even know what the specs or anything about the amp other than I loved the rich tone..I guess it was 100w into a single 15 and it was made somewhere about 1976-1978 or so...

 

[precision punk]

My first bass amp was a Fender Frontman 15b. It had a great tone and a 8" speaker if I remember? I bought it for 10 dollars and wish it still worked.

 

[gafbass02]

Mine was a H||H vs-100 with a Marshall 4x12. Swiftly traded for an acoustic, 275 i think.

 

[Jeff Roller]

My first new bass amp was a Traynor Block 40 solid state I bought in 1983 or so. My first "real" bass amp was a '70's SG tube head 1x15/2x10 combo that weighed more than my refrigerator. Total back breaker, but I wish I still had it, I would set it in concrete in my rehearsal space and never move it again.

 

[ransombass]

A Peavey TNT 130

I played the heck out of it and it always fired up. It sounded awful. That was more than likely user error.

 

[RobertPaulson]

Peavey TNT 15" combo

 

[Eilif]

Gorilla KB30, complete with "funk bass" switch that made it sound funky, but more in a toejam way than in a groovy way. Not a great amp, but it made noise and did just fine as a monitor for the church gigs I played until I got my first "real" amp an -SWR Silverado Special- 6 years later.

The Silverado is long gone, but 14 years later I've still got the Gorilla. There's no point in selling it, and It's nice to have a reliable cheapo that you can plug anything into when friends come over to jam.

What's funny is that the exact amp is still made (right down to the "funk switch"), now with brown tolex, by Pignose/Gorilla under the "Pignose" name.

 

[Krakatoa]

a small laney 15.... i still got it cause i dont have enough money to get a new one and its very sad cause i just got a fender jazz bass and it would have been better if i had a better amp

 

[JMac- Wiskerface Designs]

My first amp was one of those fender M80 bass heads with the matching 4,10 cab..... I think they made those things in the early ninties...... It was covered in some kind of felt looking gnarly carpet **** that turned into lint furr when ever it would rub something while you were transporting it. I was allways afraid I would get to close to it with a cigarette, and it would burst into flames........ Yea, 120 watts of tone-less, gutt-less power. I think I gave it to one of my relatives, maybe he used it for firewood or a boat anchor.

 

[michael_atw]

I remember right when I started my dad's friend sold me a huge Peavey for $50. It had casters and must have weighed 80 pounds or more. It was too big to take around so I was gonna resell it but he wanted me to resell it back to him because he forgot he had put an expensive speaker in it. I think the amp was from the late 70's/early 80's. Don't remember anything about it.