Amplifiers & Amplification

[Indeterminacy]

What do you use and what works best for your purposes?

Pictures Please.

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Sound City 120 with a Douglas Fir plywood cabinet
housing an EV-SRO 12" and an EV-EVM 12".
Works well for almost anything except low end excursions.

[WhiteWarlock]

This Earth Sound Research G2000 SuperGuitar amp head is definitely a Fender copy. Think of it as a Twin Reverb or a Dual Showman Reverb head. 4 6L6GC tubes for power, 6 preamp tubes (12AX7 / 12AT7.) It has the full blackface / silverface style channel setup, with volume, treble, middle, and bass plus bright switch for each channel. It also has working tremolo and reverb.
Cost me $20 & fuse holder from auto supply store...
You actually made me take picture of this ESR head...
Yet honestly, have goto habit of just plugging in Marshall 2x12 closer to computer station & ProTools rack.
(tend not fucking with my guitar tone anymore since it is extremely specific now)
ummmm may have walls of amps anymore somehow...
~shrug~

[WhiteWarlock]

Sound City 120 with a Douglas Fir plywood cabinet
housing an EV-SRO 12" and an EV-EVM 12".
Works well for almost anything except low end excursions.

upon doing deeper research that 74' SoundCity120 head rules...
Ironically it sort of strangely reminds me of my old Sovtek MIG that don't own anymore...
yet at least still have my rusty russian bigmuff...

[crochambeau]

AMPS

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Traynor YBA-3 Custom Special sitting under a project I'll post about at some later date. This is usually pushing a 1x18 or 2x15.

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I enjoy grabbing this DuKane 1A385A (2x 6V6) for lower power or tandem murk with a higher power amp.

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I can't overlook the Kalamazoo Model Ones as a nice little blown out sounding amp.

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I lucked into three of these a few years back at what amounts to scrap prices. This is the only one that's fully operational (another has a single channel operable), but the technical documentation was easy to find. I plan on digging into the rest once I have a place to plant the PA system. Supplies 500 wpc into 8 ohms, can bridge 1.7 kW into 4 ohms, not that I'd ever dream of doing that. Currently doing studio monitor duty and sounds quite nice (I don't think these ever hit their switch threshold, I somewhat expect fidelity to suffer a little when they're driven hard)

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...and since I mentioned PA I may as well include the Eico HF87 which serves as high frequency horn driver, though as can be inferred, this amp is currently more suited for the "NEGLECTED GEAR" thread.

[PortiaPorcupineFan]

Behringer 90-Watt Keyboard Amp

This is what I've been fucking with here and there. It's been a while since I've recorded anything, though.

[¾ dead]

I've only ever owned small/mid-sized amps. Though I seldom use any of them unless playing live, my main amp is a Peavey Backstage Chorus 208. I hardly ever have a chance to really turn it up, so it's not much fun to have it taking up space. It gets pretty loud, and it's also very robust. The knobs are a bit crackly, but it's held up to me rolling around the floor with it, whacking it, flipping it over, etc.

I really like the teal stripe on it.


(Not my photo)

[WhiteWarlock]

AMPS

I can't overlook the Kalamazoo Model Ones as a nice little blown out sounding amp.

used to have one of those Kalamazoos back when had Gibson Saturn 2x10... 80s

[WhiteWarlock]

I've only ever owned small/mid-sized amps. Though I seldom use any of them unless playing live, my main amp is a Peavey Backstage Chorus 208. I hardly ever have a chance to really turn it up, so it's not much fun to have it taking up space. It gets pretty loud, and it's also very robust. The knobs are a bit crackly, but it's held up to me rolling around the floor with it, whacking it, flipping it over, etc.

I really like the teal stripe on it.


(Not my photo)

My old first real workhorse amp Peavey Heritage VTX 2x12 that bought from pawn shop during Summer of 1985???
replaced one of the Scorpion speakers since then that was coil rubbing...
it's brutally loud for 135watts rating...
powers on and blasts sound out...
It's still somehow alive after all the years of use & abuse...
It's a fucking feedback monster...
Grandma would freak on me when cranking it up screaming "You're cracking the plaster!!!"
currently that amp is retired & needs 6L6GC tubes/transistors replaced...
not risking it anymore & have more than enough other amps/heads/cabinets now

carried it home from practice once 7+ miles and it's sort of HEAVY

[crochambeau]

Yeah, old Gibson amps are underrated.

carried it home from practice once 7+ miles and it's sort of HEAVY

..and that's an understatement.

[PortiaPorcupineFan]

There is no way in hell that I could attempt to haul around that 2x12 Peavey. Hell, when I bought that Behringer amp, I pushed the box down the hallway to my bedroom and then, I unboxed it. Getting the damn thing out of the box was a total bitch.