Favorite Amps?

[Gibson4life]

What do you like to play through?

[cookieman15061]

What, no all of the above??

[FirstMeasure]

No one company for me, although I tend toward older fender Amps.

 

Lately I've been digging Egnater, just might get a renegade or a tourmaster one day.

[charlie brown]

Right now...Fender ((old) Sidekick 35R (practice amp), Blues Junior, HR Deluxe, Twin Reverb...depending on size of venue),

In the past of my "misspent youth"...Vox (AC-30, or Super Beatle), Marshall "Major" Full Stack.

 

CB

[atolleter]

Fender hand wired, single ended, class A, all tube.

[sgbass]

Recently changed over form Ampeg To Marshall. I'm glad i did. The SG Std. Bass sounds great through it.

[SweetMarie]

 

 

I like Marshall...and Fender.

[Rocky4]

IMHO, most people say Marshall because it's the cool choice. In reality, Fender is the real shizzough.

[Murph]

I had to vote Mesa because of the Blue Angel.......

 

<<<<<<-----------------

 

But I'm also a HUGE fan of the Fender Prosonic (Bruce Zinkey design) and the Deluxe Reverb (re-issue is okay), and really the Super Reverb as well.

 

I worked with a guy that gigged a Carvin Bel Air on the opposite side of the stage for many years and they are a very good, under-rated amp.

 

Gigged a JCM900 1/2 stack for many years, very durable rig.

 

Ain't it sweet to have choices?

[DAS44]

Fender all the way, mainly because 95% of what I play I play clean.

[deepblue]

[Wyoming T/A]

Fender twin Reverb

[Shnate McDuanus]

Well...my experience with amps that I've played on (I don't own any amps of discernible merit,) I'm very fond of Vox and Orange.

 

Oh, and Fenders and Marshalls are great, too, but everybody says Marshall.

 

I also thought the Peavey Classic 30 I played was pretty great.

[Dub-T-123]

I love my Vox. I gotta say right now Vox gets my vote.

 

I love a lot of amps though. Like guitars, I don't think I can ever have too many amps.

[Silenced Fred]

I voted Fender for this sole reason: They have the most amps that I like. Not saying that they are my favorite, but they make the most amps I like. I love the Vox Night Train and AC4. The Orange Dual Terror rocks, so does the Rocker 30. Mesa Express and Transatlantic sound great. Marshall Class 5 is amazing. You can't have enough, it just depends on the sound

[sgbass]

Two Fender guitar amps that are hard to beat, the Twin Reverb, and the Super Reverb.

[Riverside]

1968 AB763 Bandmaster through a pair of Weber Cali 10's and or a JBL D130.

[Californiaman]

Fender Custom Shop Master Built Two-tone Amplifier.

Check it out.

[Silverbursted]

Marshall tube amp for playing, but I really love my Laney for studio work.

[jameslucascalvert]

Seriously, my Gibson Goldtone GA-5 is the best amp I've ever played through. Portable, cool-looking, easy to naturally overdrive, easy to mod, and reliable. For gigs I have a GA-42RVT for the headroom, I'm a big pedal fan.

[Californiaman]

Seriously' date=' my Gibson Goldtone GA-5 is the best amp I've ever played through. Portable, cool-looking, easy to naturally overdrive, easy to mod, and reliable.[/quote']

 

You don't say. Really now.

One like mine?

[NeoConMan]

Fender.

 

I play my Marshall JCM 800 once in awhile - it's kinda like getting in a bar fight though.

No matter how good it goes, it still means some pain the next day.

[djroge1]

I'm a fan of Apostle Tone Amps. He makes a little class A amp that has a great blues crunch. Not a whole lot of clean head room though on that amp. I hear they are developing one that does have the clean head room sort of based off of a Dumble amp.

[jameslucascalvert]

You don't say. Really now.

One like mine?

 

 

That would be the one. LOVE it!

[milod]

Well... Likely my biggest error in guitar dealings was turning in my Deluxe Reverb in a swap plus boot for my big tube amp, nice as it is (and heavy as it is.) In retrospect, the DR was about the most versatile little amp with some really nice sound and plenty loud for about anything I'm likely to play then or now.

 

Here again, though, I'm looking at more factors than just "how do it sound."

 

=== It's loud enough for anything I'm likely to do - or heck, let it be miked if I ever play for 10,000 folks.

=== It's relatively light

=== The concept of two "real" channels in this case means you can actually run a mike and guitar simultaneously with separate eq and volume in a small saloon or a coffeehouse environment if you want or need to for a solo gig.

 

I think, again in retrospect, you're better off with a relatively small amp that sounds decent, is sufficiently durable and fits what you're doing for money in most situations; if you're gonna need more noise, put the cash into some sort of PA.

 

For what it's worth, my current "work" amp is a little 30-watt Kustom acoustic jobbie that's now on a suitcase carrier wheels. It didn't cost an arm and leg; it's designed to take a mike and guitar into that small saloon or coffeehouse environment, sounds decent and is decently durable for what I'm likely to do; it's got a line out to record or patch into a board for a bigger venue.

 

Is it the best amp to amplify my pickin'? Probably not. But I'm looking at it as a piece of equipment I would use, have and will use for what I mostly do. Heck, it's even worked fine in a small saloon band environment for saloon music.

 

m