VOX WESTMINSTER V1182. Just imagine a whale fart from a mile below the ocean surface- yeah- it was that bad!
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Worst amp you played through
- Thread starter MrCash
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17 year old kid I was a long time ago. Saw an ad featuring the bass player from Dokken playing a wall of Randall RBA-500 heads with those 2-15 side-ported cabs. Looked cool as hell. Had it shipped to way up Northern Ontario. Sounded like crap, heavy as hell but never broke down in my 6 years gigging around 'coupla provinces and N.Y. state.
Come over to the Rumble Club and say that.
Gorilla GB20. I got better sound plugging into the 1/4 inch mic input of my boombox than I ever got from that practice amp. This was circa 1989-1991.
I was about 13 or 14 years old. It was a 1-15 combo labeled ARB. Should have been called THURB, cause that's how it sounded. Thurb thurb, thurb thurb thurb thurb...that's "Livin' After Midnight" by Judas Priest...
Worst rig purchase ever was a Carvin 600 head with 115 and 210 with that hideous red tweeter. Sounded ok at home - but at the gig the tone was thinner than truck stop toilet paper.
About 75% of the amps on the market!ive only found about 3-4 that really have THAT SOUND. The rest just sound like garbage to me.
Absolute worst though IMO:
Anything by Peavey
Absolute worst though IMO:
Anything by Peavey
Ya I was going to sat my brother in law's peavey is the worst not even sure of the model but it's late 70s early 80's vintage
All these negative comments about the Fender Rumble amps are really making me second guess the Rumble 500 head I just bought off Reverb yesterday! Hopefully it will sound good with the cabs I plan on using it with. Oh well, for what I paid for it I can always sell it and recoup my money.
About 45 years ago, that was a pretty good amp. They were reliable and they blew the pants off a Fender Bassman or a Dual Showman, which a lot of touring pros were using. A couple of years later, the Acoustic 360 came out and then three years later the SVT came out
In the mid 60's when most bass amps were inadequate, Standel's weren't too bad, and were definitely one of the better early solid states and put out pretty well for 70 watts. I ran one for a few years and it wasn't too bad in an average garage band. It replaced my Bassman 2x12 fart generator. The Sunn 200S would kick butt on any amp in the 70-100 watt range at that time, and when the 360's and SVT's came on the scene, real bass amps had arrived.
50 or 70 W randal combo in a rehearsal space against a full drum kit and two bigger guitar combo amps and 500W PA
the rehearsal space owner still think it is all good because for years other bass players have never brought it up
yay
the rehearsal space owner still think it is all good because for years other bass players have never brought it up
yay
My worst sounding amp was a Ampeg BA210v2. Not that the sound was terrible, there just was so little of it. Like it couldn't put out but 30% of volume.
The 2x15 was worse. The grill cloth was actually the material for dampening dr
Got a couple of Bassic 1x15 cabs that rattle all to hell once you turn up past noon on any low powered amp. Make just about anything sound bad.
Ditto on the Eden tone. Never pushed it and fried both speakers. Replaced them. Three years later the amp self destructed.
Had an Avatar 2-12. Made impressive, flatulent tones with every amp I tried. Sold it after 6 months.
Solved all of these issues with an SVT.
