FenderGuy1 Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 In the store, looking for a marshall, came across this weird MG2FX, it sounded like crap, so i went on to the MG100FX and the 100 watter beat the 2 watter by 99 more watts
sneakerpimp Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB3qZejetTg&feature=related the amp sounds legit to me... you sure it wasn't something else? yea, comparing 100w to 2w is fair...
SlashPerryBurst Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 My first amp was a cheap Zoom amp. The less said about it, the better.
glp2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I've never got a good sound out of any Peavey I've tried (at least for bass guitar). Peavey always sounded boxy, dull and did not project well. On the other hand, the GK 800RB with a 115 (no name cabinet) and the Guild-Hartke 410's sounded great! It was extremely versatile.
Rabs Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Line 6 I second that.. I got one of the first gen Line 6 amps after being suckered in by the fact you could change the effects (and im sure it sounded good in the shop).. WORST AMP EVER, not one single setting sounded good and you couldnt get a clean sound if you tried.. it was like farting through water I hear they are better these days but that one amp put me off Line 6 for life, I just stick to what i know now... Marshall :)
Lungimsam Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I have tried 2 Ampegs with Pbasses and did not like the sound at all. A Fender 400 I played at church over a few years sounded awesome. Never had a prob with guitar amps. Peavy, Fender. Both were great for me. I even had a Marshal micro stack once. That was not very good though if I remember right.
Dub-T-123 Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I play bass through an old solid state peavy that I found in a parking lot. I have personally stabbed the speaker once and I think my drummer stabbed it once too. It's pretty much the shittiest amp I've ever seen but it works and it's the only bass amp we have so we use it.
RaysEpiphone Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Ummm... I had a Fender 10 watt Frontman amp that sounded great when I first played it but after I had it a while it lost it's quality. May have been a bad amp from the factory or something, I have played through a few higher end Peavy's that sounded ok but most of them just fall short of a full crunch that is needed for rock and blue's and a few other type's of music I like to jam. I do know first hand that Peavy is a super tough amp as is most every thing else they make. Most all of there stuff don't sound stellar but you can neglect the crap out of any thing Peavy and not worry about it failing on you. I've got a little battery powered .05 watt pocket Fender amp that I bought from my local guitar shop back in 1991 that still work's...again, not a sweet tone and no bottom-end but it work's. And guitarest, most all of the tube Marshall amp's that have little gain are designed to be run wide open for maximum out-put, thats why you didn't get the unpfffttt out of it at lower level's, there just made to crank. The newer one's have more gain, you'd be surprised how viscous a Super Lead or a Plexi really is in a large room on 11. Never played though a 5150 but I do remember the Butcher, not a bad amp but not my cup of tea.
sellen Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Never had any issues with my 5150..... The amp I was most disappointed in was my 2203, JCM 800 100 watt amp and cab that everyone just goes bonkers over. I never liked the fact that a external device was needed to get decent overdrive or distortion. This is exactly why I purchased the 5150, been many years of gigging with that amp and the Marshall 1960A with Greenbacks. It has never failed me........... (Knock on wood) Yea man, i had a 2204 jmp 50 watt and it was not that good. Works fine on low input with overdrive pedal, But that high input isn't what i expected . I prefer my modern dsl 401 combo marshall, a good amp with a few upgrades.
pippy Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I found a tiny practice amp in a junk shop when I got my first guitar. It was badged 'Zenta' and they claimed it was a 3 watt amp. They were fibbing. I seriously doubt it was even 0.3 of a watt. It's tone was awful. But I still loved it. P.
Buxom Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I've never got a good sound out of any Peavey One of the best sounding small amps I've ever heard.
upsidedown club Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 One big hell yeah in favor of line 6. As a beginning guitar player I am thrilled with the versatility of my spider jam 3 amp. No pedals no boxes just les paul and amp ... and with the turn of a knob I can sound like the best... play with a real band loop... and record and loop it to my hearts content and it is thrilling to just turn a knob and have your axe turn into jimis or page or youngs etc....shove your tubes dont need em....
badbluesplayer Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 There's a whole sludge pit of lousy amps out there.
L5Larry Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 The WORST sounding amp I ever owned was a silver-face Fender Dual Showman. I bought it as a teenager because it was BIG and SHINEY. It was definitely one of the Fender Amps that suffered from the dreaded "Silver-face Syndrome" that almost killed off the Fender amp line. It sounded constipated, and soured me on Fender amps for life (although I do know many of them sound great). I traded off the 2x15 JBL cabinet for a 1969 Dan Armstrong Plexiglass guitar, and was finally able to dump the head for $60.
Searcy Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I'd say most any tube amp that isn't cranked up sounds like total crap on its own.
rct Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Two words: Zodiac. If yer too young, ask yer parents, they are probably still a little nauseous. Couple Sound City 50 watt heads I got suckered into, late 70's, supposed to out Marshall Marshall, which they didn't. They sounded great, crystaline clean all the way up to 10. Took a pair of LPBs to put a hint of crunch in them. They lasted me a while, had master volumes put on the back of the head which helped, but was pretty inconvenient since they ran at about 980 degrees, reaching around back was usually bad in dark bars. Got a year or so out of them before becoming a several years Peavey user. Early 80's Mesa Boogie. Cane front, 'zotic Carnuba wood cab or some crap. SOB maybe, I seem to think it an SOB. Couldn't get a decent sound out of that thing to save my neck. Was using a Vox and a pretty nice SS Crate at the time, the Mesa stayed home and the other two went out. Tried and tried because, you know, it was a Mesa! Supposed to be the bomb, right? So I learned that we don't all use the same things for a pretty good reason. Sold it 6 months later or so, got 500 for an amp that cost me I think 650, so it was a victory. rct
pfox14 Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I have this old 70s Polytone solid state piece of crap that I use as a bass amp. When I play guitar through it, the sound cuts in & out for no explainable reason. At least I don't have to throw it away.
Twiz Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 My first amp was some 10 watt solid state piece of crap from China or Korea. I think the brand was Rock Town. It had an 8" speaker. The guitar I played through it sucked too. I wish I still had that stuff for some dumb reason.
Mark Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Literally? Really? It must be pretty bad then.
cabba2203 Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Yeah, those MG series combos are not so great. As already posted, Line 6 would be a better non-tube combo route. You should check out the stuff from Jet City as well, you may like it. Fender has that new Excelsior too that's well priced.
Thundergod Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 While I now consider my first 2 amps the worst ever I am sure when I owned them I was overly confident that they were the best of the best of the best and they had slashtone. The first was a battery powered samick 2W portable amp, and with portable I mean you could wear it on your belt! And the second was a 15W samick combo with reverb!:D I had the chance to listen to both a couple of months ago as I sold them to a friend of mine years ago and he never used them much so they are still pretty much new, they sounded horrible, you can't even imagine how horrible the noise they made was.
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