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What was the heaviest amp before '83?


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The Acoustic 260 with the horizontal horn for lead players, and the 361 for bass players were up to the the top with the Sunn, Marshall, Hiwatt, Ampeg, and Kustoms.

 

I had a 260 for some time and it was devastating! Mine was a bit under the weather and the Variamp and Fuzz weren't working 100%, but even so it was a monster. Those 360 pre-amps could overdrive quite a bit too. I'm a super ACC hound and I love their contributions to heavy.

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I think the Boogies of back then had the most gain, but they weren't as heavy as Marshalls.

Pretty much at that point, all the metal bands I was into were all Marshall guys, so my vote is for the old reliable,

JMP Plexis, to bad a lot of the original late sixties models got modded and burned up in LA in the mid late eighties by the hair metal scene.

 

 

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