Favourite amps - past and present.

Dodge

Way too many to list, but this was a nice moment - especially with a Voodoo Amps Amp Selector allowing all of them on at the same time.

ourmaninthenorth

Hi Paul, your SuperBaby was the one that turned me on to Kurt's work in the first place, and I secured this MicroBaby not long after. For that I owe you a drink, these amps, in my humble opinion, are phenomenal. 

That above picture of the Cornell's is exactly what I was just thinking about when I saw your post about the Emery...this interweb is bloody spooky at times!! 

Hope you're well Pal?

Dodge

ourmaninthenorth said:

Hi Paul, your SuperBaby was the one that turned me on to Kurt's work in the first place, and I secured this MicroBaby not long after. For that I owe you a drink, these amps, in my humble opinion, are phenomenal. 

That above picture of the Cornell's is exactly what I was just thinking about when I saw your post about the Emery...this interweb is bloody spooky at times!! 

Hope you're well Pal?

I'm good mate - thanks!  How's tricks?

The Cornell years were certainly fun, but it was only really the two Ramblers that were 'me'.  I'd love to track them down again...

ourmaninthenorth

I'm sound.

Wish I'd have had that proto Plexi off you at the time !! 

What are you using now? Here's a shot of my current set-up (minus the Mognotone cab)

Take care Pal. 

Dodge

ourmaninthenorth said:

I'm sound.

Wish I'd have had that proto Plexi off you at the time !! 

What are you using now? Here's a shot of my current set-up (minus the Mognotone cab)

Take care Pal. 

Good to hear!  The Plexi head and cab were broken up, the cab went to someone on the MR forums who's name escapes me, and the head went to HeartfeltDawn in a trade deal with the Ramblers.  Not sure where they went after that.

I've still got my old Lightning (the ex-Nevile Marten one) - I drifted in and out of love with it for a while, but she's a keeper:

relic245

ICBM said:

There's a Vibro King in the shop just now.

I would put money on it that it's my old one - I swapped it with a guy from Glasgow and there isn't that many about. It was blond tolex and the serial number was 200 and something - about 236 I think

impmann

I miss my AC30s - I had a *LOT* of them in the 90s. I used to gig three at a time at one point - totally excessive, but it was in keeping with what I was doing at the time. All of them were early 60s models - at the time you could pick 'em up for a couple or three hundred sheets, if you didn't care about blue speakers (I didn't - still don't... I prefer them with Greenbacks... each to their own).

I sold everything off in 2000 - I had a life change event and all my guitar gear (save for a WEM Clubman and a Tokai Strat) went. I sold the last two AC30s - both early copper top 'Bass' models - for £325 each. OUCH.

I still love my Sessionette 75 - I played my first ever gig through this amp when I was 16 (1987). It was at the time part of the hire stock from Wing Music in Sidcup. When Barry chucked the towel in on the Sidcup shop he sold off all the hire stock and I snaffled the amp - I wanted the white JV Squier Strat that they had as hire stock but that went before I had the chance - and have gigged it, recorded with it and earnt a few quid with it ever since. Its never gone wrong, although the reverb tray is currently busted as it got dropped (I don't use reverb any way) and has always sounded great and loud. Although it does look like its been run over by a burning tank...

For home use - I've owned a rare VamPower Power Baby 15 for some time now. Its a great EL84 driven practice combo - and sounds magnificent. I've never seen another...

photek

Some of my favorite amps have been:

Past - Bad Cat Hot Cat 30 head - When dialed in it sounded incredible! Punchy, bright, dynamic, open. However if I was on an off night it was so unforgiving that it had to go

Past - '82 JCM800 - Some of the best tones I have had live, proper marshall crunch! Too loud for most places though and not easy to boost volume for lead playing without a loop.

Past - '73 Fender Quad Reverb - Could destroy planets without breaking a sweat but also destroyed my back, why did I think a 4x12 combo was a good idea?

Present - Blackstar Series One 100 Head - Does pretty much everything I want, great crunch and lead sounds, doesn't break (touch wood!) decent FX loop, not too fussy about speakers and not so expensive that I can't take it to grotty pubs.

robmac5150

Easy....i have had countless amps and this was by far the best [URL=http://s160.photobucket.com/user/catag/media/image_zps6938ecbd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t162/catag/image_zps6938ecbd.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

monquixote

robmac5150 said:

Easy....i have had countless amps and this was by far the best http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t162/catag/image_zps6938ecbd.jpg

Direct links not BBCode on here 

robmac5150

Thanks

Deijavoo

Probably too much detail for everyone here, but here is my current amp;

http://toboy-diy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/daves-custom-amp.html

Exactly what I want and beautiful sound but I'm getting itchy fingers again???

Past amps:

Mesa Dual Rec

Marshall JTM45

Carlsboro GLX40

Si_

That looks really cool... got any footage of it. 

dindude

Just this.....with pedals on top. Can't remember what amp gas felt like.

stickyfiddle

I've never owned a dream amp. I'd love a Cornell Romany Plus and DrZ Maz 18 with reverb and airbrake. And a Matchless DC30...

As for actual amps of mine, my old Laney VC15 was a really nice little thing. I really fancy buying another and putting it in a bigger cabinet with a Celestion Blue. I reckon that'd be an awesome little package.

Deijavoo

Not yet Si, very soon though.

ThePrettyDamned

Peavey 6505, JCM800, Mesa Dual Rec/Tremo-V-Verb and Marshall JTM45/Fender Bassman.  

My dream amp is that Trem-O-Verb, but they're few and far between.  And I don't have any money

ourmaninthenorth

dindude said:

Just this.....with pedals on top. Can't remember what amp gas felt like.

Fantastic!!  =D>

JCA2550

John_P said:

I've owned this since I bought it new in 1987?    It really a 1x12 combo in disguise courtesy of roadkill cabs.
It still doesn't get gigged like I had planned when I converted as the fender twin is still doing it's job but I'll never part with it.

http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w617/johnpinchin2/null_zps27d914dd.jpg
http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w617/johnpinchin2/null_zpsb002756b.jpg

I wish I'd done this to my old JCM 2554 combo, instead I flogged it to a guy in Russia
(

JCA2550

Past

Blackstar HT-60
THD Univalve
Cornford Roadhouse 30
Marshall JCM600 (I had both the combo and head version)
Marshall JCM 2554 1 x 12 Silver Jubilee combo

http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/23101137.jpg.html
http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/THD May 2011/UniValve020511002.jpg.html
http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/Roadhouse 30H/Roadhouse30H001.jpg.html
http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/JCM 600 Stack/JCM600Head.jpg.html
http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/Marshall2554packshot.jpg.html

Present

Martamp (MJW) V6-20
MJW Roadstar 36

http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/Pedals etc 27 08 11/14Pedals270811.jpg.html
http://s335.photobucket.com/user/JCA2550/media/Nanonano002_zps50897edd.jpg.html