Ones that got away - amp edition

[metropolis_4]

What amps do you most regret letting go of? If you could get just ONE of them back, what would it be?

Thinking about so many amps from the past I wish I still had today…

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Laney GH100L, with matching cabinet.

Sold it 15 years ago, while in college, for rent and food.....took a ding on it....and now to replace it new.....psshhhh ...I paid 1350 out the door for head and cab in 1998....can't get the head for that now.

 

[Life Eats Life]

Original Cameron CCV.
The clean channel dimed was the most awesome crunch.. the midrange is the sound of dopamine.
The CCV smoked the Larry Dino 939.
I do miss the Dino’s clean channel which was unbelievably good-the irony right?

 

[jay mitchell]

There are two for me. The first is a brownface (w/wheat grille) Bassman head I gigged with from ca. 1971-75, the second a Marshall 50W combo (NMV, w/6550s) I played from 1980-83. I modded the Marshall to add a gain stage, a second tone stack, drive controls at two different points in the signal chain, and a pre-PI MV. If I had to narrow it to just one, it would be the Bassman.

 

[la szum]

You trying to make us all feel sad, with regret and remorse coursing through our veins,
and on a beautiful Sunday no less!?!?

 

[greatmutah]

VHT Deliverance 60.

 

[la szum]

^^^Funny. I had that same amp and don't miss it.



There's a Marshall out there I wish I didn't have to sell, but it
helped me survive in a challenging time, so I truly appreciate
the sacrifice it made to keep me in house and home.

Outside of that, not many, and I have been through a few piles
of amps in my time.

I don't even miss the MKIII or IV, because I have a V and it can
get me in the ballpark of either and then some.

I had a Nuno Randall Head and an RG100ES that I wouldn't mind
having back just because. That Nuno head was the darkest SOB
I have ever heard in my life. Very unique aesthetic and cool with
that VU Meter, though. They were cheap as dirt once upon a time.

 

[FuzzyAce]

No major regrets. I wouldn't mind having an early silverface Bassman head back though. I didn't know any better back then.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Oh my...

I was out on a boat with some friends back in the 90's, and met this guy who happened to live in the house, that a famous baseball player that I had framed his new house, used to live in. Small world.

So we got to talking, and turns out he's a guitar player, but didn't really play any more. And yet he still had his old gigging amp, a Marshall 50 watt head and a 4x12 cab. I asked, and he said yes. So I bought both for $200. (His price.) It might have been the 100 watt head. I just can't remember.

I already had a 50 watt JCM 900 with a 4x12 cab, and I wanted a stereo rig (after playing my amp together with 2 other Marshalls at my house- other guitar player's amps that they left at my house, since we were currently trying to form a band.)

But I was so naive about those old Marshalls, that I didn't know what I had. I do remember it was NMV, maybe an old JTM or JMP. I never even took any pictures of it. But the guy who sold it to me said he bought it used in the 70's as a set, and the cab had the original 25 watt Greenbacks.

So what did I do, when I couldn't get it to break up like I wanted? I traded both my Marshall heads for a Mesa Stereo 50/50, and bought an ADA MP-1, so I could play in stereo, with a smaller rig.

Knowing what I know now, I should've kept that old Marshall and the cab!

 

[norminal]

 

[Stone]

None, I have them all in my FM9, and they aint going no where

 

[Achilles]

 

[FuzzyAce]

None, I have them all in my FM9, and they aint going no where

 

[TSJMajesty]

I do have my best tones, and best-playing gear, ever though, regardless of what I've let go. And I'm the best player I've ever been too.

So there's that...

 

[Stone]

I'm also where It dont get any better for my needs, really only thing missing is 2 Axes
But then again i can't regret anything Ive never owned a real amp per say, besides a short stint with a Katana 50 and dont regret selling that

 

[Achilles]

I've never owned a real amp.

 

[spawnofthesith]

There’s several but narrowed down to one probably my old Pittbull 50/CL

 

[ispunk]

Soultone Wilbur 18/20 was a pretty cool amp and kind of rare. I still have one of his 50 watt bass spec plexis but it needs to be fixed.

 

[EOengineer]

I’d love to have that Mesa Studio Preamp back. Man did that thing sound and feel awesome.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Modeling tones aside, there are 3 great tones I've been able to experience, that came from amps.

One was my Marshall half-stack miked at a fairly large club, and hearing it coming from the side-fills, and back at me through the PA during sound check the first time, was something I'll never forget...

Two was simply my buddy's 100 watt Plexi dimed, and...

Three, which I still do from time to time (when I feel like wheeling it outside & hooking it all up), is my Tri Axis & 2:90, along with the AF3 for stereo effects, cranked towards the woods behind my house, and hearing that sound reverberating through the trees, as I walk around playing in my yard, using my wireless.

Ive never owned a real amp per say