Danno
Gretschie
Not counting the practice amp that came with the Squier Strat Pack, my first amp purchased separately was the 1990s Peavy Bandit 112 Sheffield. Got me through highschool and college. I then moved on to Fender Amps as an adult.
Your First Amp
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Mid-60's blackface Vibro Champ. Sold it for something like $25 in the early 70's, no idea that one day it'd be worth big bucks! LoL! I don't even have my own picture of it. The one below is just something I pulled off the web.
Danno
Gretschie
I think it's safe to say most of us wish we had that amp right now!
Nice! Mine was it's smaller brother, the ENVOY 110. "Upgraded" to a 100w VTX 2x12 when a friend sold (dumped?) that on me for $100.
Both were traded in to fund a Classic 50 4x10 (which I still have).
ForTheLoveOfIvy
Gretschie
Because I started on bass it was one of these things.
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My first good amp, after my Pignose 30-60 was my 1964 Tremolux with a 2X12 fender cab. Luckily I still have both. I was moving and traded a Coke machine for the amp.
Thanks john
Thanks john
Peavey Musician, 200W of solid state power halfstack with built-in FX. I remember the fuzz and phaser only cause they were bad, and I don’t mean like your momma. Chrome dust caps on the speakers. All a 15 YO zit-face needs.
1970’s Fender twin Reverb. It is probably one of the reasons I had to have back surgery years later. 
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.GretschPlayer101
Synchromatic
We sort of had the same amp, sort of.
I had for my first amp a Lead 12 but the guitar version. Not mine but I lifted the picture off the internet since I don't have mine still nor do I have any pictures of mine. Got it when I was about 15 years old about 1983.
I keep trying to find a photo of my first amp, but I can't. It came from a department store, so had to be either JCPenney or Sears. It was solid state, 3 magnificent watts, 1980s.
And get this: IT WENT TO 13.
And get this: IT WENT TO 13.
MGllm
Synchromatic
Lafayette around 1965. Perhaps made by Univox? 12" speaker, tremolo. Wish I still had it.
bobeschism
Synchromatic
Also originally a bass player.
This was my first rig, Peavey Mark 4 with 2x15 Black Widow. The neighbours loved me.
This was my first rig, Peavey Mark 4 with 2x15 Black Widow. The neighbours loved me.
JackNangle
Gretschie
My first amp was an awful Zenta transistor piggyback head and cab from I guess the 60s. The magic smoke escaped after a couple of weeks. I talked my parents into getting me a Fender Deluxe 85 solid state combo for my birthday later that year. Think I was 14. Got a Simms Watt head from a junk shop shortly after, same model used by Mick Ronson
Pops
Synchromatic
My first amp was an Acoustic 10, for practice. My first “real” amp was a Peavey VK212, 100W beast. It’s on casters, just in case I need to move it. Heavy sucker at ~75 pounds!
stiv
Country Gent
cielski
Senior Gretsch-Talker
Late '50s/early '60s Gretsch 6163. Wrap around grille, fridge handle, 15" Jensen + 5" tweeter.
I suspect it was a Valco, with something like 18 watts.
Got an Ampeg B-18X flip top w/ reverb/echo to replace it.
I suspect it was a Valco, with something like 18 watts.
Got an Ampeg B-18X flip top w/ reverb/echo to replace it.
Mine was a Heathkit mono hi- fi amp from Lafayette Electronics that I built myself. The guitar worked well enough because the amp was designed for a ceramic cartridge. The 6” speaker a neighbor gave me didn’t last long. Still, it was better than playing into the mic input of a Wollensack reel to reel. You learn valuable lessons growing up working class, how to solder and read a schematic among them.
tartanphantom
Friend of Fred
My first amp - bought used in 1981, and still with me today - a Fender Twin-Reverb SF 100W
Completed years later by my second amp : a Fender Deluxe-Reverb SF, to form occasionally my Fender Stack :
A+!
No matter where you are in France, I'm quite sure that they could hear you all the way in Andorra with that rig.
I had to put in ear plugs just to view the picture! A deluxe piggybacked with a Super Twin= LOUD
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