Whats your favorite Guitar amp?

[BadB]

Fender Hot Rod Deville 212

 

[Bassmec]

Hiwatt....WHYNOT !?!

Hiwatt Dr103 and Marshall JCM800 Vox AC30 Mesa Dual rec its all horses
for courses which reminds me Fender deville and an old tele flat out.
Oh and an old Orange grafic 120 with a Les Paul and rat pedal, what a sound.

 

[tigerbass]

Old Marshall 4x10 half stacks!

 

[Murder_Worship]

Peavey tripple X
such amazing tones can be made with this beast.
the littles laddies on it looks kool too lol.

 

[srxplayer]

Peavey Classic 50 212.

A very underated all tube guitar amp.

My friend has one and I love the tones he can produce with that thing. My '72 Tele Deluxe sounds great throught it. If I ever buy another guitar amp it will be one of those. Gretch Hollowbodies sound amazing through them.

 

[Fealach]

Fender Champ doesn't rock?

Perhaps not in the metal sense. But as a classic rock or blues amp with a Strat or Tele they sure do! I run a Strat straight in to a heavily tweaked 50's Champ. No pedals. Fat blues tone to kill for for. Expressive as all get out.

I love mine, nice power amp distortion at a volume that matches nicely to a natural drum kit. If you need more juice, bring the SM57! I'm a big fan of low power class A finals.

Mine's stock, and probably because I'm a bass player at heart I hate getting my tone from pedals. Beautiful clean and it does break up when it's cranked, but not exactly a gain monster. Still, I can't imagine a situatuation where I'd part with it voluntarily, or even be able to bear having it modded. It's a sweet little bass amp too if you're careful.

 

[bassnug47]

a quiet one!!

 

[Passinwind]

I roll my own, of course. Every few years I get a different old beater tube amp and rework it a bunch of times until I get bored with it and repeat the cycle. Right now it's an early 80s Fender 30, which I think was their first real channel switching tube amp. It uses two 6L6s and actually makes around 35 watts.

I modeled the clean side mostly off my friend's 67 Vibrolux Reverb (my favorite old Fender BTW), and the wild-and-crazy side has elements of Soldano, Rivera, Boogie, and a few secret trick tone stack tweaks that a very talented tech friend of mine passed along. It's a 2 X 10 with Celestion V10s out of a Prosonic, at least for now.

One really cool feature is that you can run just one speaker and still get full power if you want less volume and more speaker breakup. It's a very handy feature for recording or practicing at home.

 

[Energy]

I like EL84 amps for their creamy OD sound: Vox AC15/AC30, Orange AD30, Gibson Junior, ...

 

[Inverness]

In my current band, the guitarist plays through a Crate BV120 - basically a Blue Voodoo before they were known as the Blue Voodoo. He plays that through a Marshall JCM800 from the 80s. When he chooses to play his distortion channel (which is, shamefully, almost never), it sounds great.

But to be quite honest, my favorite set-up will always be of the guitarist of my first band. He had a Mesa/Boogie Tri-Axis set to emulate a Mark IIC+ and a Mark IV for his rhythm crunchy chugchugchugmeshug tones that went through a 50/50 power amp into a custom-made cab with Celestions. He had some crazy effects processor in there, too. GForce or something? Just amazing what he could do with all that.