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i have an all original 1967 blackface super reverb and one of the first few fender vibrokings that came off the line....
both are awesome...
talk about an understatement!! 
vinceesquire wrote:i have an all original 1967 blackface super reverb and one of the first few fender vibrokings that came off the line....
both are awesome...
talk about an understatement!!
i just got a new amp from these guys as an endorsement....
great replicas of old fenders but with better parts and eliminating all of the cons that old fender amps are known for (i.e. noise, low-grade electronics)...
check em out!
FlyinLow wrote:-Fender Blues JR
-Another Blues JR
-Another Blues JR- Got kind of stuck on these. Good tone, LOUD and easy to carry around.Do you hook them up, or... ?
AB/Y. I'll run one clean(ish), and one dirty. I change guitars alot for slide tunings and stuff, and running two amps is quicker to get the tone I'm after. When I ran one amp, I'd have to twiddle knobs all the time, and often forget to 'twiddle-back' when I'd switch guitars again, lol! Running both at once makes for a HUGE lead tone too.
Ha, nice posting! Now i'd like to blend in too.
I had a couple more amps than the listed ones but
I think the most important ones are enough here.
1988 - Fender switcher (my very first practice amp)
1990 - Marshall Valvestate 8080
1992 - Marshall JCM 800 with 4x12 V30
1995 - Engl Savage 60 with same cabinet
1999 - Mesa/Boogie DC-5 Top - same cabinet
1999 - Vox AC-30 70s
2000 - Engl Savage 120 - with 4x12 cab. G12H30
2001 - Vox AC-30 RI with Greenbacks (still have it)
2007 - Valvetech Hayseed 30 2x12 combo with Blue Bulldogs
The Hayseed is my main amp in my tribute band and I love it to bits.
Especially my CS '57 Goldtop sound amazingly here.
Leadlines sing soo sweet. It has a strong midrange and
doesnt compress too much. A great amp.
Alex
Beerdog80 wrote:vinceesquire wrote:i have an all original 1967 blackface super reverb and one of the first few fender vibrokings that came off the line....
both are awesome...
talk about an understatement!!
i just got a new amp from these guys as an endorsement....
great replicas of old fenders but with better parts and eliminating all of the cons that old fender amps are known for (i.e. noise, low-grade electronics)...
check em out!
Sounds pretty good brother. Just checked your vid on that page and others on youtube. Were you using one of the Hayes Amps or something else? Either way, sounded insanely good.
Sounds pretty good brother. Just checked your vid on that page and others on youtube. Were you using one of the Hayes Amps or something else? Either way, sounded insanely good.
the video on his website is about 3 or 4 years old at a show I did with Chris Duarte here on maui...at that show I was using both my vibroking and my super reverb in unison but had a slightly different pedal configuration than I use now...
in the more recent videos I was using a fender twin amp (not the twin reverb) that was supplied as backline...but it's really the pedals that I use...I can make any tube or or half tube half solid state amp sound pretty good...although with this rig, nothing will compare with my vibroking.
I have not yet got any video of me using the Hays amp...i'm sure it'll be soon though...
Started back in 1991ish with a Peavey Rage 108
'67 Fender Twin combo
Peavey Bandit combo(damn transtube) w/2x12 cab
Marshall JCM 800 (price o crap) w/1960 412 cab
Peavey MACE
71 Fender PA 100 w/Marshall 1960 412 cab
fender 15 watt solid state
straub twisted triode
I'm new to the axe slinging world (a mid life crisis thing...)
First was one of those 15 watt Epiphones I got in a combo kit with Britney (Epi LP standard, trans amber) last spring.
Next was a Fender Blues Deluxe reissue 40 W, 1x12 tube amp, got it in another combo set up with an American tele. Last fall.
Just sprung for a Marshall half stack, MG100HDFX with MG412A cab. Pretty versatile and LOUD! The other rigs weren't shaking the house off the foundation. Clean channel sounds great with the Ric 330 12 string. The overdrive channel gets down and dirty with anything I plug in. Has to be the best $600 rig out there!
1972 Fender Princeton reverb sold-idiot
1977 Musicaman 210 65 Watts
Marshall jcm 800 mark 11 100W modifed with master volume (have'nt used in 2 years)
2 checkerboard 4x12 marshall cabs once owned by EC
Komet 60 head now on the Marshall stacks
top hat supreme 16 with matching 1x12 bulldog cab
Mesa mark 111 head on Mojo 4x12 cab purschased from eric johnson
Top Hat emplexador e50 with matching 2x12 cab
fender G dec just bought for my 11 year old son
I have got not too many amps in my life...
the first two I sold... the others still are with me...
KITTY HAWK The Kid - ca. 1986/87
HUGHES & KETTNER ATS 100 series - ca. 1990
MARSHALL 1962 Combo Ltd. Edition creme-colored, aka "Bluesbreaker" - 1997
VOX AC 30 Top Boost - ca. 1978/79
FENDER Vibrolux Reverb silverface - ca. 1969/70
CRATE VC-6112W Vintage 60 - 2001
HI WATT Top 2000 series model S50L plus 2 x 12 'Celestion Vintage 30' cabinet - unknown year
us older guys have it tough we have to think about it..
1974...radio shack tube reel to reel into a homemade cab
1975...1959 silvertone twin twelve....i still have
1977 ..music man hd-130 stack....
1980...music man and fawn marshall super lead
1987..music man, marshall,hiwatt,silvertone,lab series, legend r&r 50
1995..lost my gear to dodctor bills...peavey ss combo, silvertone
1998..marshall super lead, jmp 50 combo,silvertone
2003...marshall jmp 2203,1987, jmp combo.
2205-now...silvertone, jmp 2203, 72-1987, 76-combo, 69 metal pannel, music man hd-130, national, rack set up..
what kills me is not the gear i lost to the docs..{ ok it does kinda} its the gear i sold to get something different!!
Joe
Didn't I see you in Pittsburgh in 2007 with a Dumble? You didn't list it.
I forgot my list.
Starting in the 60's I had a Fender Champ ('66) My 1st amp
A Kustom something or another. That one is still floating around somewhere.
A '66 Fender Bassman with a home made 4 x 10 cab.
Roland Bolt 60
Mesa Boogie MKII B...I hate myself for selling that
Marshall 50 watt...forget the model. This was '80 or so
Mesa Boogie MKIII C simulclass
Marshall 30 watt Solid State thing...I hated it
Laney 50 watt combo ('89...great amp.)
Mesa Boogie 50/50 w/ ADA MP1 preamp
Mesa Boogie DC5 (still own it)
Line 6 POD XT
Fuchs 50 w ODS w 2x 12 Fuchs Cab.
I have never been a gear collector. What I had worked for me at the time. I never accumulated much gear.
2002 Marshall MG15CD
2003 Line 6 Spider II 112
2004 Peavey ValveKing 112
2006 Fender Super Sonic 112
2008 Budda Superdrive II 18 112.
I currently own the last three on the list.
Mines pretty basic, this was mostly my dads old gear that i played.
2003 - Encore ( pretty basic i know!) Starter package amp.
2004 - (Ampless!!!) I played acoustic, the encore was never actually mine, so...
2005 - erm... Random fluffy 20 watt Hohner amplifier, think it was called hw-15, have no idea.
2006 - Marshall 50DFX ( still have to date, still miss, the hohner though, was dads, but once pushed it to the limit and it short fused!
2007 - Roland COSM Micro cube, ( originally to be plugged into marshall and mic amp, but soon grow to love it as a practise amp
2008 - Still have the last two, either looking at a new marshall, or a guitar LOL.
( My brother also has a 15Dfx marshall, but not as good as valve amps.
scagey
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