A Twin is still the perfect amp, I don't care what people say.My first amp - bought used in 1981, and still with me today - a Fender Twin-Reverb SF 100W
Completed years later by my second amp : a Fender Deluxe-Reverb SF, to form occasionally my Fender Stack :
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Your First Amp
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Bitchin amps, I have one and love it.
Awesome
They made those right! You can't fake the funk, you gotta suffer for tone like that.1970’s Fender twin Reverb. It is probably one of the reasons I had to have back surgery years later..
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My first was some forgettable small amp with a six or eight inch speaker with just volume and tone knobs. Maybe Sears brand, but I don’t recall. Next came a 1966 Ampeg Gemini ii which I bought new and still have.
First amp was a Kimball console organ with an added phone jack input to the amp circuit. Or, occassionally, I'd plug into the Mic input of my dad's Wollensak reel-to-reel -- not very loud but very distorted.
First real amp was a silverface Fender Bassman 50 head and a Peavey bass cabinet with a 15" speaker (I played guitar through it).
First real amp was a silverface Fender Bassman 50 head and a Peavey bass cabinet with a 15" speaker (I played guitar through it).
My first amp was a Alamo similar to this one. My brother and I were playing lap steel thru them but my Dad did not like the distorted sound of it so he sold them and got us a Brown Princeton......a little bit cleaner than the Alamo but still distorted. He traded in the Princeton on a brand new 1967 Pro Reverb which I still have to this day. Since I have moved over to standard electric guitar, sure wish I still had the Alamo and Princeton too
Jezzatron
Electromatic
Fender M-80 combo, red knob, black face. Thankfully the black tolex version instead of the one covered in grey shag-pile carpet! Blisteringly loud workhorse of an amp, still miss it
Bob Perrone
Synchromatic
Ampeg Gemini II - 100 watts and weighed about 1,000 lbs. (lol)
DECEMBER
Electromatic
Marshall Valvestate VS30R.
The very first thing I was using was an AIWA stereo, 1/4"->1/8" adapter to plug it into the mic input. I was making multitrack recordings with the dual tape deck: I'd record to a tape, then move that tape to the play deck, put another tape in the record deck, dub the tape while playing another part over it. I made several songs of 4-6 tracks of guitar and bass like this. I still have the final master tape of all the finished songs from 1999.
The very first thing I was using was an AIWA stereo, 1/4"->1/8" adapter to plug it into the mic input. I was making multitrack recordings with the dual tape deck: I'd record to a tape, then move that tape to the play deck, put another tape in the record deck, dub the tape while playing another part over it. I made several songs of 4-6 tracks of guitar and bass like this. I still have the final master tape of all the finished songs from 1999.
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azrielle
Electromatic
Peavey Vyper VIP-1, which I found to be overly complicated, so I gave it to my Physical Therapist's 15 year old daughter/budding guitarist, after replacing it with 2 Vox's: A Mini 5 Rhythm, and a VT40X.
My first amp. Going back to around 1963. Watkins Dominator. 17w allegedly.
Photo is not my actual amp, traded that in for a Vox AC10 which actually sounded better and a lot louder!
I see they go for silly money now. Can't understand why.
I did get to know Charlie Watkins in later years. Didn't tell him what I traded it in for!
Photo is not my actual amp, traded that in for a Vox AC10 which actually sounded better and a lot louder!
I see they go for silly money now. Can't understand why.
I did get to know Charlie Watkins in later years. Didn't tell him what I traded it in for!
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My first real amp was a SUNN Sceptre with a 4x12 cab., which I wish I still had! I paid $400.00 new with cover from store in Charlotte, NC. We were in school in CH and had to drive there to get one since no one near us had one. I played my 1960's Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 from the early '60's through it--mine had a gold plate on the head stock and a padded black snap cover on the back; it fed back a bit, but it was a nice guitar that I wish I had kept it as well. It looked kinda like this one on e-Bay right now. I think I paid either $200.00 or $125 for the guitar at the time. That was righteous bucks for a college guy back then, but we made it back as a band.
Cheers!
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Cheers!
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My first was a Silvertone 1484 Twin Twelve. Bought new in early 60's. Lasted into early 70's and was replaced with my Fender Super Twin Reverb, 180 watt.
My first amp was dad`s tube stereo.
Then I asked a schoolmate to build me an incredibly oversized solid-state amp that was at least 40 kg .
At this point of time I thought that "distortion" is something an amp should not do. So this one had a super-clean tone, only.
I played it for a year or so and always thought that not sounding like Richie Blackmore was solely due to my inabilities...until I found a shin-ei fuzz-wah. Wow. That sounded a lot more hard-rock!
Then I jumped straight to a Marshall 1959 Superlead from 1969 with the period correct 4x12 and was spoiled forever....
Then I asked a schoolmate to build me an incredibly oversized solid-state amp that was at least 40 kg .
At this point of time I thought that "distortion" is something an amp should not do. So this one had a super-clean tone, only.
I played it for a year or so and always thought that not sounding like Richie Blackmore was solely due to my inabilities...until I found a shin-ei fuzz-wah. Wow. That sounded a lot more hard-rock!
Then I jumped straight to a Marshall 1959 Superlead from 1969 with the period correct 4x12 and was spoiled forever....
Tele295
Country Gent
My first real amp was a silverface Princeton non reverb. Traded a Yamaha acoustic guitar for it in 1987.
. I’ve had lots of other amps since then, but I held on to it. It is the perfect size for the tiki band I’m in now, especially for Hawaiian steel. It’s now my #1 gigging amp.
. I’ve had lots of other amps since then, but I held on to it. It is the perfect size for the tiki band I’m in now, especially for Hawaiian steel. It’s now my #1 gigging amp.
dspellman
Gretschie
My first amp (for guitar) was a Vox Super Beatle, complete with the chrome tilting stand.
I'd been a keyboard player for a while (B3, Leslie and Fender Rhodes 88) and the Vox was already in service amplifying the piano, so when our guitar player told me I was going to be playing "second guitar" stuff, I found an ES-335 and just plugged into the Vox. The Vox cabinet has four G12 Celestions and a couple of high/mid horns, and the head pushed it with about 120W, three channels and some built-in effects.
I'd been a keyboard player for a while (B3, Leslie and Fender Rhodes 88) and the Vox was already in service amplifying the piano, so when our guitar player told me I was going to be playing "second guitar" stuff, I found an ES-335 and just plugged into the Vox. The Vox cabinet has four G12 Celestions and a couple of high/mid horns, and the head pushed it with about 120W, three channels and some built-in effects.
JC higgy
Gretschified
That's just jogged my memory,i'm pretty sure i had the use of a Watkins head belonging to my dads band too,it sounded quite nice if i recall correctly.
That might have been the amp i paired with the home made floor monitor!But i can't find anything that looks exactly like the one i had in google image search.It was black and white or cream...It was valve ,cause i remember waiting for it to warm up!
Yamaha 25w practise amp. It wasn't a bad start but my 2nd one, Vox AC50 was quite a step-up.
My first was a Silvertone 1484 Twin Twelve. Bought new in early 60's. Lasted into early 70's and was replaced with my Fender Super Twin Reverb, 180 watt.
That was my first amp too. Bought in 1965.
