What was your very first amp?

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:47 am

Mine was a 5W Concord - combo, natch.

My dad bought it for me from Gilmour's Auction House in New Plymouth in 1960.

It had a sort of white and sparkle vinyl covering.

Long gone to thermionic heaven (no silicon in that baby).

offender · Post by **offender** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:49 am

10 watt Marshall MG series III practice amp.
Two channels, independent volumes for each, gain control and a 'contour' control. Great sound, I really like it, still have it.

Post by Bg » Wed May 19, 2004 10:04 am

Carlsboro Stingray 150 Watt Combo

It was loud and I used to play it at number 11 in my bedroom. My mum was always complaining for some reason.

philipnz · Post by **philipnz** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:05 am

A homemade valve amp my dad knocked up for me. My first real amp was an Eminar 30. Solid state but a damn good sounding good quality amp. Australian I think.

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:05 am

Mine was an old 40's Phillips valve radio that was converted - worked quite well (about 5 watt) but the input valve grid capacitor network was leaky so after about 2 hours you started getting a shock now and again (not too bad only about 50 volts). An early Marranuci silicon powered 5 watt was the first 'real' practice amp at the same time as a Holden 50watt head and no name bins for gigging.

Like Rog's all gone now - decades later lent the Marranuci to a 'Christian band' who subsequently made off with it, while the Holden got traded in on something - and for once I reckon I got the better part of that particular bargain - allways thought the sound of that particular Holden was very 'tight- arsed/constipated'.

Jops · Post by **Jops** » Wed May 19, 2004 11:45 am

Peavey Rage or something like that. I didn't have it for long. In fact I can't even remember what I did with it??? I guess I traded it or gave it away. Man, I knew nothin and no-one when I started playing guitar, if things like nzguitars.com existed back then I bet my gear choices would have been a lot different. Actually no. I was too arrogant to take advice...

stark · Post by **stark** » Wed May 19, 2004 12:15 pm

Jansen 6-Sixteen valve combo *wistful sigh*

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed May 19, 2004 12:22 pm

> this one's special, this is the ultimate, after this i'll never need another amp, EVER.

ROTFLMAO!!!
Man, that's familiar!!

Richy11 · Post by **Richy11** » Wed May 19, 2004 12:39 pm

Vantage 15 watt Practice amp. It was a good start, cause it made me relise bigger is better after I played a friends Marshall.

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Wed May 19, 2004 1:18 pm

Peavey Rage 15 Watt. Sounded boxy as hell, but it was a step up from plugging into my ghettoblaster (yes, it was that long ago

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stark · Post by **stark** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:49 pm

DrRog wrote:ROTFLMAO!!!
Man, that's familiar!!

my GF didn't find it quite so amusing..

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:50 pm

Crate GX15r. Solid state but amazing tone and volume for only 15 watts, I'd reccomend it as a first or practice amp to anyone. I sold it last year to another beginner, hopefully he get's as much sssatisfaction from it as I did.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Wed May 19, 2004 5:41 pm

It said Vox on it but I was too young to remember anything about it. I was 12 at the time. It had a single 12 and sounded like shit. Very likely had a S/S power section. It was given to me by an uncle or cousin, I can't remember. At the time we all thought it might be broken or something. I ended up giving it away. Then I never had another amp 'til I was like 18 or so and bought another S/S amp. This time a Fender with (2) 12's. Again, I don't know anything about it. First real amp came a year later. Another S/S fender with a single 12. Still don't know what it was called but it sounded way better than anything else I had owned previously. Mostly, I played through other people's amps when I was a teenager. All amps had 4 inputs back then or at least it seemed that way. I also played a lot of borrowed guitars as well. I couldn't be bothered to spend good money on decent guitars when I knew so many people who would let me play theirs for free. Spent all my money on green weed and red wine. I rocked on either my classical or someone elses guitar.

Mike_Hosking · Post by **Mike_Hosking** » Wed May 19, 2004 7:19 pm

10 watt yamaha with a foot peel for distortion(channel switch), clean sounds really nice, my cousin has it now, it just goes where ever it wants coz i dnt care about it lol.

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed May 19, 2004 7:37 pm

I made my first two or three amps out of kits and intercoms. I still have one of them. No fond memories there...
My first 'real' guitar amp was a Gunn Classic 100 2x12 combo. It weighed a ton and always sounded clean, so I set to it with the soldering iron to 'Marshallise' it. It was a little better, but the smoke was a concern

I still have it, but haven't found a replacement transformer at the right price yet.