First Amplifier

mine's a good one, 1964 Princeton reverb (before the vintage craze began and before the small amp craze too)

http://www.rainbowguitars.com/imagesproduct/us/usfenderprincerev-xl.jpg

I miss her, sadly she was stolen 10 years ago.

Fender Frontman 15R. I spent all my money on the guitar, so this is what I picked up. Honestly, I probably made the decision purely based on the fact that it had a Fender logo on it and was less than $100 new. Guitars are just so much more fun to fondle than amps when you are uneducated and young...

I had no idea what I took home when I got my 1st amp.... dumb luck

I was so sure my sound was great because I owned a passable strat.... took until highschool for me to realize the amp was the magic as I plugged my 3rd guitar in and realized what the common denominator really was

Crate G-15

Very used, Dusty, and Smelled Badly

http://www.listorn.com/sandiego//ads/images/55/f3Ka3G83La5K35F55J8d2ke5cbc033d28e1dce.jpg

I had my Takamine GE-400 GT for about 6 months without any amplification. The next time we went through Odessa, we hit a pawn shop and asked them for a cheap amp. They got us cable and the Crate for $40 I think. The amp I still have, but it is in dire straights. A plate of glass crushed into the top, the handle broke, the knobs are scratchy, the speaker is blown. I really don't know why I still have it. Wait... I may not. I could be in my closet right now, but I just don't feel like looking.

I always played it turned way up and on the overdrive feature. Taught myself most of Anesthesia: Pulling Teeth on it.

Jade Monarch 25 Can only find

(http://res2.graysonline.com/handlers/imagehandler.ashx?t=sh&id=102858&ts=634384273515900000&index=0&s=gl)

online image. Similar but all black, with a circular grille made of steel.

I asked my dad to buy me picks one day as he went to work and gave him $2. (they were $0.50 each at the time). When he got home that night, I asked for the picks and he said "go get them out of the van". I opened the van to find a bag with $30 worth of guitar picks and this amplifier. I gues sthey were getting sick of me running guitar and bass through the hi-fi system! The Jade Monarch 25 is an Australian built 25w amp marked as a Guitar /bass/ keyboard combo. Mine survived being left outside in a rainstorm overnight when I was drunk, has been a guitar amp, bass amp, keyboard amp, vocal rehearsal amp, drum machine amp and makeshift monitor for days of 4 track recording. bought in 87 it finally died in 2013, when earth leakage at a factory we rehearse at shorted a laney, a randall a fender rumble and it, while my other amps were in the shop. The damage has fried every pot and shattered the board at every solder point. When attempting to repair, it was revealed the speaker was torn as well. Cost to repair is $150 which I will do as my father passed away some years ago.

That sucks I know the feeling all to well. Friend had one back in the day I was a good amp.

If you count makeshift I wire an 8 track with wire over a nail and plugged it into a console stereo unit.

My first amp was a m.bass.30 made by galanti.

Well, my first amp was all of 7 months ago, a Fender Rumble 100 V3... It's also the only amp, bass or guitar, that I purchased new. I don't regret it though. It's a great amp and I plan on keeping it for a long time.

huzzah to being happy with a 1st purchase, HUZZAH

i got sold on the fender mustang 20w it was good when i started and thought it was incredible till i actually got into music and realized how "fake" it sounded compared to what ot was trying to emulate, the new mustangs the are absolutely incredible and i think fender nailed them but the one i got was an older one early v2 i believe and its just a cheap 120 dollar starter no more no less

1995 Peavey Transtube Rage 158 - it looked exactly like this....

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I ran that thing into the ground. Cats peed all over it it till the baffle board came apart. Still kept using it with a series of home made baffle boards and other shit holding it together till the amp started going "wup wup wup wup wup" creating some kind of extreme Tremolo effect.

It also had just an input jack when I was done because I had to cannibalize the CD/AUX in and Headphone jacks for an input jack after awhile because those plastic jacks were just shitty and not up for how much I played. I used to play through that amp for 6-8 hours a night, non-stop. that was my teenage life in a podunk town as the "village outcast".

a hot rod... wow, I ahd been playing for eyars when the I came out. LOL

dude, why not just fix it? I'm sure its something very minor and inexpensive if the pwoer ampw as stil working. Although 300 bucks for a rackmount one is reptty cheap,s till.... I assume you tested all teh preamp tubes. Did you see if there's some sort of short in the FX loop output? that's common in 80s amps of all kinds. Buffered eries effects loops with switching jacks are prone to failure.

look above 'post reply' and you'll see a blue link "Formatting Help"... a lot of photos and videos will auto-embed but some don't including ours I guess

I like the stray marshall knob on the rack... I got an JCM800 from a guitar center once with a stray fender knob on the presence pot... I guess GC swapped our knobs!