What was your first ever bass amp?

[Slough Feg Bass]

hmmm, my very very first amp was my brother's solid state marshall mosfet guitar amp going into a giant PA speaker, with the giant horn in it.
the thing was huge. but loud enough to jam with.
my first real bass amp was some sort of used peavey head into the same PA cab.
I had fun with that stuff, and it was plenty loud for punk rock and led zeppelin tunes.

 

[groovaholic]

peavey basic 50 112 combo

Me too!

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

Traynor Bassmate 10. Pretty typical poopy practice amp. My first "real" amp was a Peavey TKO 115.

 

[Jeff Scott]

That was my first bass amp. The first amp I owned and played bass through was an old Supro that my Dutch roommate sold to me for $15.

This amp was a big inspiration for Swart amps.

 

[RustyAxe]

My first amp, circa 1967, was a used Guild Thunderbass ... about 75W (all tube) into the matching 2x12 cab. I wish I still had it! Mine was in like new condition ... this is a pic I found on the web.

 

[electracoyote]

A (now) vintage 70's Peavey 400 series head into an 18" cab! Yeah baby! Glory days...

 

[GDUBS]

A fender rumble 75. Shortly after bought a foot switch! for the gain channel! Felt like a rock star........... till I started viewing TB!!

 

[fdorn]

Fender Dual Showman and a Fender 2-15 cabinet.

 

[Crazy_Jake]

Can't remember the exact model number but it was an early 80's Peavey with a 15" Black Widow. Love those speakers.

 

[70spbase]

1960's ORBIT Have never seen another one. It had a 12" Eminence white dustcap and I drew a smiley face on it. Sounded like crap when pushed past 9 or 10 o'clock... But man it was boss to have an amp after playing with the headstock pressed against the wall for volume.

 

[jj4001]

I was given a Squier Jazz and a Peavey TNT 130 just like this one when I lied my way into my first band almost 20 years ago.

 

[mikbrx]

Thin sounding? Like fit between a door crack. It's still around somewhere. I think I saw it in my sons basement.
The VOX Showroom - The Vox Sovereign Bass Amp

 

[The Regulator]

At first I couldn't afford an amp (poverty sucks) so this had to do :

Not exactly the one I had, but very similar. You could record on 8 track.

 

[okcrum]

Haynes Bass King II - 75 lb. of unadulterated germanium solid state suck (and no casters - those were added in the example pic). It had gold trim, as you can see the last of it peeling off on the right.

At least it got me enough gigs to get my next amp. That's about all I can say about it that's positive.

 

[BigBobbyBass]

87 crate B220 xl.. distortion circuit, chorus, 220 watts into a 15..awesome practice amp I should have never sold...

 

[pablomago]

A friend had an old unworking Ampeg V4B sitting around his house. He was moving and gave it to me. I took it to a tech and had it restored. I wasn't playing bass and didn't have a cab so when someone offered to buy it for a good price I sold it. Then I got a great deal on a 1 x 15" cab, got my P-Bass and got a gig playing bass. I really wish I had kept that amp. I scrambled and put together a rig with an Ashly Bass preamp and a Carver power amp that I had lying around and an SWR 2 x 10" that a friend lent to me.

I also had a Traynor Bassmaster and a 6 X 10 cab, but I wanted the head for guitar and sold the cab to a friend who needed a bass cab. I had a crazy guitar rig with two Bassmaster heads, a Kitty Hawk Quattro preamp and an ART effects box pushing two 2 x 12" cabs in stereo.

 

[klokker]

Fender Bassman 250/115. Still have it after years of thrashing it and taking it to gigs that might wreck my good stuff. Not quite the depth of tone I get from my other gear, but loud and good enough for just about any gig I"ve ever had.

 

[zenrad]

Sunn concert bass with a Sunn 2x15 cab. It was abandoned at my house by an old friend.

 

[Bassix17]

Peavey MicroBass

 

[Freight Train]

My first amp was an early 60's Supro Thunderbolt that I bought in a Wichita Falls pawn shop for $35 or $40 in 1966. The thing put out about 1 watt so like an idiot rather than having the tubes checked I sold it. Now look what the suckers are going for:
1964 Supro Thunderbolt S6420 1x15" Tube Guitar Amplifier Combo Vintage Valco Amp | eBay

I sold it and got a Gibson/Kalamazoo Bass 30. 30 watts 2x10.
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