Your First Amp

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

When you have time maybe tinker a bit with it, get er clean so maybe you can see why there is no sound..

Little by little something will show why no sound, tubes, maybe speaker connections...I would hold onto that one...

I plan on using it for trade bait down the road

 

[Gahr]

My first amp was a Dean Markley K20. Definitely not an amp I miss for reasons other than nostalgia. I "donated" it to the school I used to work at. Looked like this one:

 

[Metal89]

Squier sidekick

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/squier-sidekick-amp

Met its demise when it tipped over, while on the floor... I was not upset by this

 

[Don O]

I was a spoiled young one for sure, I was the only son out of 5 sisters, so I got alot...

I did not know what I had until fellow musical friends told me what it was..

Hah, I have 5 great sisters too ! And an older brother.

 

[steveb63]

Solid state "National " 12", with tremelo, weighed about two pounds, lol.

Not exactly "pro quality ", but not so bad for a beginner back in those days.

Sounded just like you would imagine.

 

[Don O]

HealthKit !

My older brother enlisted in the Army in 1968 and left me a Harmony bass guitar. Didn’t have much interest in it until about 1971 when a friend asked if I could bring it to his older brothers band gig as they needed a bass player. I told him I didn’t know squat, but he said they will teach me. Well, I didn’t have an amp or a cabinet. My dad had a 25 watt Heathkit amplifier (this was before stero was the norm) so he said I could have that. I bought a cheap 12 inch speaker and built a cabinet.

The amp and cabinet are long gone, but I still have the bass.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Solid state "National " 12", with tremelo, weighed about two pounds, lol.

Not exactly "pro quality ", but not so bad for a beginner back in those days.

Sounded just like you would imagine.

When I started playing again I was using my grandsons crate 15, then I traded some MX ridding gear for a fender 15 R

 

[steveb63]

HealthKit !

My older brother enlisted in the Army in 1968 and left me a Harmony bass guitar. Didn’t have much interest in it until about 1971 when a friend asked if I could bring it to his older brothers band gig as they needed a bass player. I told him I didn’t know squat, but he said they will teach me. Well, I didn’t have an amp or a cabinet. My dad had a 25 watt Heathkit amplifier (this was before stero was the norm) so he said I could have that. I bought a cheap 12 inch speaker and built a cabinet.

The amp and cabinet are long gone, but I still have the bass.

Heathkit crystal radio builder here. Circa. 1969 +/-

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Heathkit crystal radio builder here. Circa. 1969 +/-

Damm I am surrounded by nothing but greatness

 

[Jethro Rocker]

1978. Univox Stage 65. 20 watt crapola amp. Then graduated after a coiple years to a Traynor TS200 with 9x8 cab. Used it a couple years then a 1983 white Marshall 2203 half stack.

 

[Tony M.]

9 X 8 is quite a bit of speaker area.
More speaker area than 4 X 12.
Do the math.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

9 X 8 is quite a bit of speaker area.
More speaker area than 4 X 12.
Do the math.

Yep. Almost total speaker in that cab. Not ,much wasted space. As I recall it didn't sound great that amp.

 

[Trident]

Haven’t seen those in years

 

[syscokid]

Fuzzy memory, but... '77 or '78, at least a year after High School... a new Traynor combo. Cannot remember the model. I think it had 4x10s. If I knew then, what I know now, yes I should have kept it. Same thing for my 2nd amp, a Lab Series L5 ('78 or '79). Samething for my Fender 75 "Lead Amp with Reverb" (1980).

 

[FracStrat]

When I was around 12 , my dad being the Administrator of a Boy’s Home in Altadena would receive donated stuff …… Really Good Stuff …… Jerry Lewis was one of the donors that would drop off mini bikes & go carts …… The Kids at the Home could not have gasoline powered stuff so many of these ended up in our garage … One day when I showed interest in playing guitar , Dad said there was an Electric Guitar and Amp there …… God I wish I knew then what I know Now !!! He brought home a ‘65 Fender Mustang and a Vox AC15 …… Had both until about ‘79 or so …… Sold the Mustang for 175 and the AC15 for 200 ……Moral of the Story ……First Amp was that AC15

 

[SG John]

'65 Ampeg Gemini II. Bought it in '77 from my guitar teacher. I still have it.

 

[Truss_rod]

Peavey backstage 15
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And since then I have found --- I am NOT happy unless I have a PEAVEY amp in my home----- presently I have a 112 Silverstripe bandit
Ive owned so many I lost track --- but Im "good" with the 112 Bandit

Same here, in fact I think its still in my storage unit somewhere.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

'65 Ampeg Gemini II. Bought it in '77 from my guitar teacher. I still have it.View attachment 26551

Nice, in 77 I bought a sunn covert lead with the matching 6-10 vertical cab,3 Year’s later I traded it for a Gibson Explorer

 

[eSGEe]

I was a spoiled young one for sure, I was the only son out of 5 sisters, so I got alot...

I did not know what I had until fellow musical friends told me what it was..

got your hair braided a lot--- got to wear girls hand me downs a lot--- got .....a lot
Probably knew more about "that time of the month" than any other teenage boy

well done --- so these sisters............older? younger? -- pics? --- 5 you say ....hhhmmmm
lol

 

[eSGEe]

My first amp was a Dean Markley K20. Definitely not an amp I miss for reasons other than nostalgia. I "donated" it to the school I used to work at. Looked like this one:

I had one of those for a Hot minute about 9 years ago-- -was a decent little amp