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My first amp was bought in 1977, a Marshal 30W 2x12” Master Lead Combo – All solid state, no reverb. It sounded pretty good for a solid-state amp at the time. Played one again briefly back in the early 2000s and it sounded pretty bad. This did me through university, and then traded it in for a new Fender 30, 30W 2x10” all-valve combo – lovely but it quickly started making strange noises and at the time I didn’t know about failing valves and replacing them, so took it back (wish I’d kept it) and swapped it for a used Mid ‘70s Peavey Artist 240 – a 120W 1x12” beast of a combo with solid state preamp and valve power amp and a Peavey Black Widow Speaker. Had to use pedals in front for any decent distortion but sounded good clean. But it certainly weighed a ton.
Had it for a maybe a year. Then I heard another chap’s amp which sounded so much better, so ended up trading it in for a new Award-Session Sessionette:75. Light, loud enough, with reverb and a decent distortion sound (especially compared to the Peavey). This kept me going for a few years and I bought a straight Marshall 4x10” cab as an extension speaker for it for gigs. At some point in time I then bought a Fender Champ 12, which never really lived up to it’s promise and could have done with a replacement speaker as like the original Blues Jr, the speaker was really boxy sounding. It hung around in the background for many years as it was small and compact but it eventually got given away to a mate. Unfortunately, in 1987, along with my Yamaha SG3000S and a REX50 multi-FX unit, the Sessionette got stolen from my car (I’d used them the night before but it was pouring with rain when I got home so left them in the boot).
Went out the next day for work, picked up an obsolete NEC APC from one site (8” floppy driven and not even PC compatible) and then went to a call-out at another site leaving the old PC in the back of the car – which was tempting fate - as that caught the thieves attention and they took that (worth nothing) plus all my kit (worth a lot!). So I needed a new amp and as I still had the Marshall 4x10”, I then bought a new Marshall Jubilee 50W Mini Head and an angled Marshall 4x10” cab, to make up a more transportable stack than two 4x12”s.
I bought it from Andertons as they confirmed that they could get Marshall to do the amp in black tolex, instead of silver, so I had a relatively unique amp. I never really got to turn it up enough though to make good use of it, and the 4x10”s weren’t the best cabs. I leant one cab out to someone who then moved and I never got it back, but it didn’t matter as when ordering a custom guitar from Chandler’s in Kew to replace the stolen Yamaha SG, I got absorbed by the rack kit and ended up with an ADA MP-1 pre-amp, matching MIDI footboard, Alesis Quadraverb and Marshall 8008 power amp, along with two 1x12” Marshall cabs. It rawked in stereo!
This became my main rig for many years. Somewhere along the way I also bought a small Ross Fame 10, 10W solid state practice amp, 8” speaker. Rory Gallagher had one. No reverb but surprisingly good clean and very distorted sounds, though less good at lightly driven sounds. After a time, too much volume took its toll on the speaker and it started sounded a bit farty. Eventually got traded along with a Yamaha MSG Standard for a Yamaha acoustic and some cash which I desperately needed at the time. Eventually the rack kit was going out of fashion and I was now in a big soul/classic R’n’B band and it wasn’t great at clean sounds (at least at a good volume).
So I stupidly (because I didn’t need to as I had the money to buy it outright) PX’d the Marshall Jubilee head plus the 4x10” cab for a Fender Roc Pro 1000 1x12” 100W combo. One valve in the pre-amp, otherwise all solid state. It was OK and did a nice clean sound, a decent driven sound and was nice and portable, but otherwise was rather dull. It eventually got side-lined and given away. Jedi Poster Posts: 5490 Joined: Wed May 28, 2003 11:00 pm Location: Reading, UK. At some point I bought a Yamaha DG60FX-112 modelling amp. 1x12” 60 solid state watts.
They basically used the pre-amp from this as the DG Stomp pedal. I liked this because it wasn’t trying to mimic existing amps like the Line 6 amps, but just had a decent choice of different sounds, plus the effects were decent and everything was programmable. But after a while the ribbon connector joints kept needing squirting with contact cleaner to make the amp work again, so it too got put to one side and eventually given away to some poor young aspiring guitarist who was the son of a friend’s mate. Around the same time I sold off the ADA pre-amp (via an SoS wanted add), kept the Quadraverb for PA use and gave the 8008 power amp to Emitime. I had the need for a small light amp that I could take to friend’s houses for a jam, so ended up getting a Marshall MG30DFX – solid state, 30W, 10” speaker and some built-in FX. It had a good clean sound and the full out drive wasn’t too bad, but didn’t do much in-between well (rather like the Ross Fame).
But it served a purpose and was used for quite a few years before I gave it to a friend’s son who needed a starter amp. I bought a Takamine electro-acoustic in 1999, so bought a small Crate 30W acoustic amp to put it through. It’s nothing special at all but is fairly full range and has also been used for bass and keyboards as a result. I still have it. It was after this that I got my Les Paul, and decided that I needed a better amp to go with it. So it was off to Andertons after reading a Guitarist magazine amp review and I bought a Mesa Nomad 100.
It was very loud and it was very, very heavy. It sounded great when driven, but only when you turned it up to ‘deafening’. So it mainly got used clean with pedals. It wasn’t very reliable though and I was always taking it apart to put the backs back on potentiometers or re-seat the graphic EQ board. Eventually it started randomly changing channels with the FU-2 footboard attached so it got used in manual channel select mode. I kept it for a long time but eventually it wasn’t being used so it got sold off very cheaply (because of the faults) to Dave B, who then donated it to his brother, Dan.
Because I liked the clean sound of the Marshal MG30DFX, I thought I’d try and replace the Mesa for soul band use with a Marshall AVT275 amp, a 2x12” stereo combo. Being solid state with one pre-amp valve, I thought it would be a lot lighter than the Mesa. I was wrong and it also weighed a ton and was bigger, so ended up as more cumbersome and took up more room in the car boot – especially when I also had to fit in the PA gear as well as my guitars and amps. This got sold on fairly quickly. This left me without an amp I wanted to gig with, so it was back to Andertons and a young (and pre-fame) Rabea sold me a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (tweed special edition). Lovely amp, if at 40W, just that little bit too loud to turn up for best response. And the hair-trigger volume control, where too quiet to too loud was about 2mm of volume knob travel.
This became the main gigging amp for a very long time and a matching tweed 1x12” extension cab was added a bit later. Back to small amps and I bought one of the first Orange Tiny Terrors (made in Korea, not China), which I used through one of the Marshall 1x12”s from the ADA set-up. Lovely little amp. I still have it, but I tried modifying it to a more Marshal-like sound with a kit, and then bought a general upgrade kit for it, so it’s now quite a different beast and to be honest, doesn’t sound as good as the original, so it only gets occasional use. I also then bought one of the first run of Blackstar HT5 1x 10” combo amps, which I also still have and is a really useful little amp. Great sounds in a small package.
The HT5 then inspired me to go and try and buy a Blackstar Series 1 45 combo when they first came out. In the shop, it looked quite compact against the 4x12” cabs in the demo room and I never got to pick it up (stupid), but then I got it home and unpacked it I realised that it was a large amp and it was even heavier than the Mesa Nomad, despite the two Celestion Neo speakers. And it never really sounded like a big HT5, lacked bass end and didn’t have any built-in reverb. Replacing the speakers for more low-end was a possibility, but at the time I could only have done it with standard speakers and made it even heavier. I tried it for a few rehearsals and one gig, but it was too awkward and didn’t sound that good.
I had in the meantime leant my Fender HR Deluxe to my nephew ( I ended up giving it to him) as he needed an amp and his band was doing well, so I needed another amp and ended up with a used TBC. Jedi Poster Posts: 5490 Joined: Wed May 28, 2003 11:00 pm Location: Reading, UK. H&K Statesman Dual 84 1x12” 20W combo. Found whilst on holiday (and I got them to courier it back home so the wife didn’t know I’d got it until it turned up a week later). This was a lovely little amp, nice and chimey with a good drive channel. Gigged with this for quite some time and ended up selling it to Ivan.
I in 2003 I got diagnosed with Leukaemia (CLL), and on the day I was told by the consultant, I went down to Andertons and bought a Two Rock Studio Pro 22 1x12” combo as a ‘what the hell’ purchase. Lovely sounding amp, well worth the money. It’s a clean to break-up sort of an amp, and though you can drive it to a crunch level, that’s not its forte.
It does take pedals very well, though the FX loop is really bad and dull sounding so I never use it. It’s rather noisy when turned up loud until I sorted it out with some new valves quite recently. Luckily my CLL has stayed at a very low non-treatable level so I’m still going to get a lot of use from the amp. This became the gigging amp, until I stopped gigging. The end of last year I bought a used Blackstar HT5R (1x 12” speaker), in order to make a small stereo rig with the HT5. But it’s never sounded as good as the original HT5 and I’ve never got round to getting it checked out, so it now languishes in a corner. Then in February this year, I bought at a bargain price, a point-to-point 5E5-A style amp build around a Fender Blues Deluxe chassis.
Sounds really nice and although it’s still 40W, fitting a lower sensitivity Celestion Neo Creamback made it a lot lighter and quieter, plus I added in a Weber beam blocker. No reverb, but with a reverb pedal in to the front end, it sounds superb. I finally sold the Blackstar S1 45 to the local music shop when I got this amp. So that’s it - for the moment (though I do have a strong hankering for a 20-40W combo for rock sounds). Jedi Poster Posts: 5490 Joined: Wed May 28, 2003 11:00 pm Location: Reading, UK.
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1st amp is a tricky one. I bought it for £5 SH in around 1977 and it was a Vox head and cab. The head was valve, it was trapezoid in shape and I am sure that it had 3 pairs of inputs (6 in total) with the vib-trem inputs being white in colour.
No reverb that I can recall. The cab was, I think, 1 x 15' on the bottom and either 1 x 12' or 1 x 10' up top. I used it for bass. Next was a Selmer Zodiac twin 50. After that it was a McGregor G1E head.
I made the cab myself for a Celestion 15' PA speaker (I was still a bass player at this stage). Next I think was an HH plus a 1 x 18' reflex cab (I had a van at this point. Session 4 x 10' combo When I switched to guitar in the late 80s I started with a small solid state Fender combo (no reverb) before upgrading to a Laney 212 SS combo. After that an original Marshall valvestate combo. After that a Marshall JMP1 preamp (still in the loft) + valvestate power amp into 212 cab Peavy Valve King next then a Vox ToneLab into a Tech21 Power Engine cab. Back to real amps with a Blackstar HT40 combo then back to preamps with a Line6 HT500.
I briefly toyed with a Blackstar ID60TVP (still got) before plugging my Kemper direct into the PA Frequent Poster Posts: 1421 Joined: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:00 am Location: Exiled to St Helens. Guitar amps: Carlsbro Wasp 10W practice amp (the version with the front mounted controls) My first amp bought in 1975. Eventually sold to my best friend's younger brother. I believe that his son owns it now. Carlsbro Rebel 90 Bought in the late 80s when I was getting back into playing the guitar after having spent most of the decade playing synths. Sold when I switched back to bass. Hughes & Kettner Tube 50.
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I bought the Hughes & Kettner amp about 20 years ago, and haven't wanted another guitar amp since. Bass Amps: Unknown generic 100W transistor amp home-made 2x12 and 1x18 cabs. Trace Elliot GP12 Pre-amp Maplin 2x100W power amp home made 2x8 and Carlsbro 1x15 cabs Peavey Bassfex Carlsbro 2x350W Power amp home made 2x8 and Carlsbro 1x15 cabs Tech Soundsystems Black Cat EBS Proline 2x10 and EBS Proline 4x10 cabs. This is currently my main bass rig. For smaller gigs on when transport space is at a premium: Tecamp Puma 300 Dr Bass 612 and Dr Bass 210 cabs. Frequent Poster Posts: 536 Joined: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:00 pm.
Very short list for me: Some no-name 10w practice amp when I started out. Think it's still kicking around at my folks place but it died a while back. Replaced by a. Crystal disk mark.
Fender M80 (solid state) that actually sounded really pretty nice clean so that kept me going for years untl about 10 years ago (I guess) when it in turn was replaced by a. Peavey Valve King 112 (all valve, 12' speaker). This is still my main amp.
I also have a Yamaha THX10 though for small gigs, busking and I use it as a grot box when mixing. Jedi Poster Posts: 4485 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2015 11:00 pm Location: York. Pretty short list for me too.
Started with a very secondhand Vox AC15. When I started playing bass moved to a Selmer 50 top and home-made 1 x 15 cab.
That lasted a few years but I eventually got fed up with lugging that heavy old thing around so got a Laney 50 combo that was better for guitar but o.k. I've still got that but for bass I fairly recently got a Hartke HD25 combo that has an unbelievably good bass sound for an 8' speaker. As you can tell I never played any large gigs and I never will. Steve Regular Posts: 72 Joined: Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:00 pm. 1983ish - 30w transistor 'Kay - Sound Fashion' (Although was always lusting after bigger better amps this stayed my main amp till 2010!!) 1987 - Bought a 100w marshall lead and bass head (In my stupidity, I thought I could use it as a 'pre-amp' for the kay by using the headphone out into the Kay inputs ) it ended after about 40 seconds with smoke and a loud pop! 1989 Found a small valve practice combo 6' cone not sure what it was but speaker breakup was crazy (IIRC it was made in Croydon) After messing with modelling (J-station) I decided tubes might have a benifit after all, hence 2010ish Epiphone valve special - decent little amp but rather lacking in top end, and noisy FX, Needed something with a little more sparkle for a gig a couple of years ago; (2015) Fender Mustang II 50w Frequent Poster Posts: 920 Joined: Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:00 am Location: Yorkshire.
I hope thi is it accurate. I have tried to show if I got them new or second hand and when. Also whether I still have them. Another volunteer to help you out with those amps.
15W Fender frontman -. Sankat mochan mahabali hanuman serial mp3 songs download. Pignose G40V. My 1st valve amp. Now turned into a head as the 10' speaker is just shit! - Ceriatone 18 watts TMB replica.
Bought as cabinet-less head, then I got a Marshall-ish cabinet and finally made a combo with it and a 12' cannabix red. Mission amps 5e3 tweed replica. Excellent amp, if you're into tweed sound that I discovered I wasnt. 1965 Fender Bassman. Oh man I miss this one. But the world of attenuators was not as developed as nowadays and sold it as it was tooooooooo much. JMI4 - 1976 Fender Champ.
Killer tone with a Les Paul. Fender Deluxe Reverb '65 reissue - Marshall JTM1 50th anniversary 1W head -. JMI15. My main live amp. Changed the JMI blue for a Gold AlNiCo. 1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb.
Turned into blackface, and with a Jupiter condenser speaker - 1976 Marshall JMP 2203 100W head. Lovely amp but I just felt too old to carry the 32 kg head plus the attenuator -. Dr. Swapped the JMP for this one and I dont regret -. Marshall JMP1 50th annyversary 1W head, as I missed the JTM1.
I bought a Kemper last month. Does it count? ) Regular Posts: 475 Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:56 pm Location: Seville - Spain. Oreterra wrote:Another volunteer to help you out with those amps. Hi Ore Terra, I think therapy is the only help for me.
Sorry to be so late replying, but things have been hectic for the last couple of days. Isn't it strange that we all have amps or guitars that we think we ought to like - maybe because of who plays them or because of the hype surrounding them.
It sounds like Tweeds are like that for you. With me, it's classic Marshalls. I never seem to be able to get a decent clean sound out of them. My JTMs are fine and my TSL, but the Superlead I had and the Jubilee 5025 (oops, forgot to put that on the list!) just confirmed that I don't like classic Marshalls. Oh well, it takes all sorts. Regards, John Regular Posts: 180 Joined: Wed Nov 27, 2002 12:00 am Location: Staffordshire, England.
Wonks wrote:I also forgot to list an old Gibson Lab L5 2x12' amp that I bought used but in good condition a few years ago. Great clean sounds and a good built-in compressor (well it was designed by Moog). Never got round to trying it with a 335 (real or copy) before I gave it to a friend in need. Hi Wonks, I've always reckoned that if an amp has a good clean sound, It will do anything I need in terms of overdrive, whereas the reverse isn't always true. I stopped reading Guitarist magazine some time ago when their amp reviewers stopped covering clean sounds.
I switched to Guitar and Bass (now The Guitar Magazine). Regards, John Regular Posts: 180 Joined: Wed Nov 27, 2002 12:00 am Location: Staffordshire, England. All contents copyright © SOS Publications Group and/or its licensors, 1985-2018. All rights reserved. The contents of this article are subject to worldwide copyright protection and reproduction in whole or part, whether mechanical or electronic, is expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the Publishers.
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Sound like a good tranny amp should. Obviously not as smooth as a valve amp but better than most of the hybrid and other solid state amps I have owned. The clean channel lacks that valve sparkle and clarity but gives a lot of headroom before breaking up, which when it does is actually?bluesy?
The distortion channel can kick in at bedroom volumes, but when pushed loud and hard it turns really fiery. Is great for metal and heavy rock, a bit to much so for my liking which is ultimately why I sold it and bought a Peavey Classic 30 valve combo when my rock band split and I started playing gigs at weddings etc. The amp reacts very well to FX when played through the loop. I stay in Aldershot, England, but purchased it from a music shop in Hull whilst gigging in about 1994. Sold it to a friend of my brothers in 1999. I recently borrowed it for two weeks in February this year when my Peavey needed to go to the amp doctor. It was fun playing through my old friend again, hence the review.
Since the amp was purchased its been totally reliable and solid over 12 years, although its not been gigged much since I sold it on. I found that the exterior marked a bit easily when being thrown into the back of cars and vans but fair play to the amp nothing has failed or broken. As I?ve said before this is probably the best tranny amp that I have owned or played. It does not sound as articulate or chimney as my Peavey or a Mesa F30 that I owned briefly, but gives a good solid sound in its own right. When wound up its very good at the metal and rock thing, but on second acquaintance made my American Strat sound a bit thin. I do however remember the glory days when it was fully wound up and my 70?S Gibbo SG was singing through it.
Is someone stole it I wouldn?t care cause its not mine. Overall a good reliable gigging amp, if you get a chance to try or buy one you will not be disappointed.
To accompany their new, Carlsbro has produced an EDA50 wedge-shaped floor monitor so that you can hear the sound of the new kit in all its glory – we paired them up and checked them out. In Detail The monitor consists of a 10” bass speaker and a small tweeter to provide 50 watts of power. Sapcar for windows. The EDA50 keeps it simple with its connections: two main inputs, which act as stereo when used in tandem, as well as an auxiliary input and a further mini-jack (1/8”) input for connecting a CD/ MP3 player. There are also output sockets for headphones and a main line out on the back of the unit for connecting to front-of-house PA.
Once connected, the amp contains a three-band EQ as well as volume controls for both main and auxiliary inputs. It’s housed in a very solid wooden cabinet covered with black carpet, with a thick metal front grille to keep the speaker and tweeter protected and large rubber feet on the bottom. The whole unit is fairly compact – 380x396x80mm – and weighs just 15.3kg.
There’s a handle to make carrying the amp around fairly easy too. Carlsbro has a 200-watt version of the monitor available, which contains many of the same features as the EDA50, but on a slightly larger scale – and it’s considerably louder. In Use The amp provides a very clear representation of sounds produced by the kit.
Low-end sounds, such as the kick drum, low toms and percussion instruments, sound full, fat and deep with plenty of body, while higher pitched sounds are equally well presented. The EDA50 gives more than enough volume to clearly hear what you are playing, and it’s only when you take the amp up to near full volume that a little distortion creeps into the low end.
If you require such an amount of volume, you’d probably be better suited with the larger 200-watt model, though.
. WORLD CLASS PA & AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS SINCE 1959 Passive speaker user guide. INTRODUCTION Thank you for buying a Carlsbro product. Correctly used it will provide years of reliable service, and fulfil all your performance needs. Please read this user guide thoroughly in order to safeguard your equipment, and obtain maximum performance from it.
Do not stand close to loudspeakers at high volumes, as permanent hearing damage may occur. Restrict your exposure to high sound pressure levels and use suitable hearing protection for prolonged exposure. When setting up a PA system make sure that the surface used is level and can support the weight of the system. Never place any liquid filed vessels on or near the loudspeaker, and ensure that the unit is not exposed to moisture in any way.
Only suspend the speakers if the speaker cabinet has approved flying hardware fitted to it. Under no circumstances should the speakers be suspended in any other way. CABLE WIRING FOR CARLSBRO PA SYSTEMS For 2 pole system use 1+ & 1- 1-/2- as NEGATIVE 1+/2+ as POSITIVE For 4 pole system use 1+,2+ & 1-,2- SPEAKON is a registered trademark of Neutrik AG SUGGESTED SYSTEMS PA SYSTEM FOR A SMALL VENUE. PA SYSTEM FOR A MEDIUM SIZED VENUE OF MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE BUT LESS THAN 500 MIXING DESK POWER AMPLIFIER FILTERED OF 600W OR FILTERED SUB-BASS GREATER SUB-BASS UNIT UNIT PA SYSTEM FOR A LARGE VENUE OF MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE MIXING DESK FULL FULL. The unit does not contain any user serviceable parts.
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