What was your first bass amp?

[fyrwyr]

I think the first one I actually OWNED and not borrowed was an Eden Traveler
head with an Eden 4x12 XLT I believe. I worked at Motor City Guitar at the time so I got it at cost; nice little rig all in all. But my fav is my "new" old Pearce BC1 pre into my Symetrix CL-100 Compressor/Limiter into an SWR stereo 800 power amp. 2 channels of very usable tone for very cheap!

[michael30]

Guild Thunderbass 60W tube amp.

[John Phillips]

A 1968 Marshall Major.

:)


With two giant Custom Sound 2x15"s with high-efficiency Fane speakers... I've still never had another bass sound like it :(.

[soldierscry]

mine was a late 60' Traynor bassmaster head with the traynor 2x15 cab. bought both for $200. I have kicked my self for selling it ever day since

[Thor]

Early 80's Roland Cube 60- yeah, pretty brutal. Youth and enthusiasm can make almost anything possible.

Cheers,

Edward

[Gries Amps]

A 1969 Ampeg B-15. I bought it new after mowing lawns for a year.

[Jim S]

Eden Metro

[lexluther]

Silvertone 6 tens GREATTTTTTTTTTTT

[glaswerks]

Peavey Combo 300....... yuck...............

[mainsale]

I think it was called a Kingston. It was a combo made in Japan with a 15" speaker, all tubes and an open back. Now that I think about it, it was not a bad amp at all.

[Glenn D.]

SWR Workingman 15.

Glenn D.

[Chops]

A Guild Thunderbass head. I originally paired this with a homebrew speaker cabinet that really sucked, but later bought a brand new Ampeg 2x15 cab that was real nice. My Hagstrom bass through the Guild/Ampeg combo was a great sound. How many times I must have played Sunshine of Your Love, Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo, Whole Lotta Love, Crossroads and Smoke on the Water through that rig!

[Denyle_Guitars]

A B-15S. I still have it.

[mcknigs]

Univox UB-250 pictured in my post to the "what was your first bass?" thread in the bass guitars forum.

Second bass amp was a Fender Bassman 135 head with matching 4x12 clamshell cab.

-Scott

[bigroy]

Brand new 1965 Bassman from D and R Music in Plainfield Indiana. My Mom drove me over. Earned the money by washing beer trucks.

[alanbass1]

I picked up a Dan Armstrong tube amp in '77 which was real nice for bass.

http://www.danarmstrong.org/dan14.html

This fed an HH 2x15 cab. Not huge headroom, but kept up with my first band who had a fairly loud drummer.

[westrock]

100 Watt Marshall bass amp in 1973 used, wish I still had that one.

[The Golden Boy]

My first bass amp was a 100w SS Yamaha combo- with the colored knob parametric EQ...

[The Golden Boy]

I think it was called a Kingston. It was a combo made in Japan with a 15" speaker, all tubes and an open back. Now that I think about it, it was not a bad amp at all.

I think my first real guitar amp was a Kingston. SS head with Tremolo into a 2x12 cab. It was a bad amp.

[TedintheShed]

A Gorilla Bass Amp- little 8" speaker and I can't remember the model number.

My first "real" Peavey MK III Bass head with a home made 1x15" cabinet that had a Scorpion speaker.

[teleclarkster]

My first very own amp was a Peavey Combo 300 bought new in 78-79? It did the job, sort of. A year later I got a 73 SVT and played that for several years. The SVT was a great amp. I was young then and didn't mind hauling that thing around.

[AlanHendrick]

Peavey MarkIII with a scorpion 15...thought it was awesome when I was 16! I don't think I would even look twice at it now, but everyone has to start somewhere.

[BarneyFife]

Kustom (forget the model) but you know it. It was the padded head and 2x15 padded cab in gold sparkle.

$300 from an ex club owner's garage.

Wish I still had it.

[tedzepplin]

1982 Peavey Century 100 head and 1 x 15" peavey cab.

[Witek]

Fender Bassman 200 combo (the new ones), man that thing was roaring with it's 15" speaker. I kinda miss it because it had a great tone, oh well.

[Bryan T]

SWR Workingman's 12. I've had other larger amps over the years, but I've still got this one. I picked it up used for $125.

Bryan

[John H]

A Yamaha 115-B. Great amp!

[Lance]

A Fender BXR 100W 15" combo, that I got for a mere $75.00. Yeah, it's a bit beatup, but for that price, as long as it worked.

[devinb]

My brother picked up an old Peavey for me from one of his friends that I started with, got a Peavey Basic 60 when I started playing in bands in high school.

The last bass amp I owned was a SVT Classic with matching cabs, but I ended up selling it after a couple years of pretty much only playing guitar, and making a move where space would be an issue. I hung on to it for a while for recording purposes.

Right now I have a Vox AC/30/6TB, but I'm working on a deal for it as I just bought a Carr Hammerhead.

[Palmetto Kid]

A 69 Fender Bassman with the big 2x12 cab.

[fyrwyr]

My first bass amp was a 100w SS Yamaha combo- with the colored knob parametric EQ...
LOL, I had the same one!!

[Tim Michael]

Silvertone Solid State!Woooohooooooo!