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Sep 14 2009, 07:54 AM
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I was sitting and thinking yesterday of how "serious" we guitar players are about sound. I mean, a drummer or a piano player just have to play on whats available. I realized that I owned about 50-60 guitar amps through the years, and that made me think of my first "babe", which was actually not an amp at all. My mother had an tube-driven radio by Philips, that gone obsolete when the transistor radios came around, so I took that. I managed somehow to get the guitar signal into it. At first I even had an electric guitar, It was an acoustic with that little piezo-mic (that looks like a hearing-aid battery), that sounds like crap. But this so-called amp stayed with me at home for years when I was practicing, and what I can remember it sounded pretty good. (or maybe my memory is way out) Anyway, its a nice memory in this time of high-tech equipment. If anyone else has similar experiences, please share!!!!
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Sep 14 2009, 08:07 AM
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Mmm... If I remember right it was a generic/keyboard transistor amp. Really bad one...
 
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Sep 14 2009, 08:55 AM
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A solid state Peavey Backstage 20W amp, got it used in -90 and it still worked fine when I sold it a couple weeks ago. A real champ!!
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Sep 14 2009, 09:01 AM
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a volcano... 15 watts...
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Sep 14 2009, 09:02 AM
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QUOTE (MickeM @ Sep 14 2009, 09:55 AM)  A solid state Peavey Backstage 20W amp, got it used in -90 and it still worked fine when I sold it a couple weeks ago. A real champ!! Oh, yeah! I remember those, that was actually my first "real" amp too. My friend had an FBT, which sounded horrible, but the tiny Backstage was OK. //Staffay -------------------- Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Sep 14 2009, 09:02 AM
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Mine was an Ashton Solid State GA10 (a little 10 watter) - rubbish little amp lol. Upgraded to a line 6 spider 3 75 2 months ago and the difference was .... well..... its blew my face off
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Sep 14 2009, 09:59 AM
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A little Fender 10W transistor amp..
Terrible sound, but worked for a fresh beginner
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Sep 14 2009, 10:27 AM
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Home built garbage
Home built garbage
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Sep 14 2009, 10:34 AM
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peavey transtube
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Sep 14 2009, 10:45 AM
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QUOTE (Emir Hot @ Sep 14 2009, 11:27 AM) Home built garbage Home built garbage Hehee, then we are at least two! I consider my old radio sort of home-build, since I did some awesome mods on it, like switchin the speaker to another and created an aux input, that was not there before. One major problem was that sometimes a radio station dialled in accidently and disturbed my playing, since that signal was a lot higher....
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Sep 14 2009, 11:35 AM
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I started with Marshall G30RCD 30W solid state, cheap amp, and definitely not to be considered Marshall, but it served me great, I carried it in many studios, dropped it couple of times really bad and it worked no problems. I think they made these late 90ties China models at least reliable.
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Sep 14 2009, 02:13 PM
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It was Peavey Reknown 100 or som.
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Sep 14 2009, 02:18 PM
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a really cheap and nasty 50w transistor amp
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Sep 14 2009, 02:27 PM
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Something similar to Marshal MG10
I still have it somewhere around the house
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Sep 14 2009, 04:15 PM
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Mine was a Crate solid state, not a good one though
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