What's your amp history? (Page 2 of 4)

Nightfly, Two-Rocks....ROCK!!
I bought one, and had to get another!
Anyways, back to the subject, here's my history, dating to when I was 14 (was VERY fortunate that pops was a musician)

-1992- Peavey KB 60 keyboard amp (LOL)
-1992- Vox AC30 Top Boost with bulldog speakers
-1994- Marshall JCM 800 1x12 combo
-1995- 1965 Super Reverb (my first vintage amp)
-1998- Reissue 1963 Fender Vibroverb 2x10
-1998- Reissue 1965 Fender Vibrasonic 1x15
-2001- 1966 Deluxe Reverb (gone now...dammit!!)
-2002- Fender tweed blues deluxe 1x12 combo
-2003- VHT Pitbull 45 1x12 combo
-2005- VHT Pitbull 50 CL head with a Mesa 2x12 recto cab
-2005- Mesa Dual Rectifier Tremoverb head
-2005- Mesa Dual Rectifier Solo head
-2007- Fender 1964 Vibroverb reissue with the Diaz mods
-2007- The "STOVE," a 5 watt single channel head built for me by the G-MAN of Honolulu
-2007- Carr Slant 6V head with Carr 2x12 cab
-2007- Two Rock Jade 1x12 combo
-2008- Two-Rock Emerald 50, modded to Emerald Pro.

I am a true G.A.S. victim...:D

I like the Two rock amps for a very direct tone.  I  prefer the custom signature reverb 1 with the presence knob over the CSR 2 with the contour.  I dont know why but I do.  They do a very good   ^ type of tone.  Not a lot of lows or highs but great mids that blend well with the Marshall Jubilee.  I have two of them and I actually like the European one better.  Its a little cleaner.  Joe and the guys over there are really nice and helpful.  A very honest amp.  You hear your good days and you hear your bad days very clearly.  The VanWeelden is a bit more true to a Overdrive Special I think.  Its rounder and has less gain,  although Peter makes this pre amp called a gainland which is so great.  Peter's amp is top notch and built like a tank.. You must get the Twinklelator though.  The compression that the outboard tube effects loop creates is beautiful and so Robben Ford ish.. The Carol Ann is the same situation a most expertly built Dumble style amp that is does the full saturation with high articulation thing.  The main difference between Alan's amp is that he uses EL 34s instead of 6L6s.  The Red one with the Eric Johnson tweak is my favorite of the two I have.  Its all what you like.  The amps that I have described are not cheap but do that thing very well. I will say that "Thing" is not for everybody.  Some people prefer less articulation and more compression, some dont like all that midrange that you get.  I hope this helps... I will say this.  I just played a gig with Robben Ford and he had his Dumble ODS and TC 2290.  I also saw him with two reissue twins and he sounded the same.  Great!! Save $40,000 on a real Dumble that may or may not be authentic and buy yourself a nice 3 series BMW.  Girls will dig the car better than the black box with  Vox grille on it.
Just my thoughts 
Thanks Joe Bonamassa

Very successful thread guys!  awesome.....

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Jensen 1-12 combo   circa 1971 (fried it during Stairway to Heaven at a HS assembly in '75 by hooking up another speaker cabinet to it....I learned about mismatched impedence that day 

Vox AC-30 after that for a few years

Ampeg V-4 late 70's

MusicMan RD-50 early 80's

ENGLE 1'12 Combo early 90's

Currently I have a Roland Blues Cube 3/10 solid state and an itty bitty Palomino V16 (made by Crate) for small clubs.  Most places in Gnashville are teency weency.

OK, here it goes-

1974 - Pa head from a high school PBS system converted to a guitar amp(first clue to where I end up)
1976-Randall Commander 120 watt twin
1977-100 watt Silverface bassman(sold in 2004)
Long Break from electric guitar
2004 Fender Blues Jr - then converted to 18 watt Marshall by s2(my Brother has this one now)
2004 1950 TV Front Fender Deluxe
2005 1966 Deluxe Reverb
2006 Founded Category 5 Amplification with s2(Steven Scott)
2006 (2) bose LE pa towers(best acoustic guitar amps on planet)
2006 1967 Princeton Reverb
2006 1966 Fender Twin Reverb
2006 1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb
2007 1965 Gibson RVT35 Lancer
2007 2003 Blues Jr(hope to have S2 convert it to a Brown Deluxe with reverb for my personal use)
2007 1987 Marshall Jubalee 2555(Guess why I have this)

I typically have 5-6 Category 5 Amps in my possession at any one time, but techincally don't own one my self(too busy building amps for others)  The best part is I get to play Joe's amps before Joe does(and I've got one now that is going to be his next one!)

DonR

Let's see:
1985 Fender Concert (Rivera era - wish I kept that one)
1996 Rivera Anniversery 212

Now it get's fuzzy, because the rest were bought used, so I'm not sure of the year of manufacture:
Fender DRRI
Fender Pro Jr Tweed
Fender Pro Jr Black (still have it)
Fender Blues Jr Blonde BillM mods (still have it)
Fender Custom Vibrolux Blonde (still have it)
Fender 59 Bassman Reissue - first year (still have it)
Rivera R55
Rivera R30
TopHat Club Royale
Tophat Club Deluxe (still have it)
Soldano Astro-verb
Tech21 - 60

And now looking to ad 1, between:
Fargen or Brown Note

Don those are cracking amps you are making my friend. Keep up the good work.

millhouse

late 60's  Had A vibrolux reverb as a kid; didn't know how lucky I was.

2003       Twin Reverb reissue custom 15  My son wanted an amp and figured I'd mail in a
               fender. 

2004        35 Bruno Cowtipper   I'm pretty happy with this amp with NOS tubes
               Actually would like to buy a second to run in stereo or maybe an Underground.