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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: JJretroTONEGOD on June 10, 2007, 02:06:09 AM
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what's the most horrid, decrepid, shamfull, stupid amp you've ever owned. It has to have the shitetest sound known to man, becuase I want it, so post away! :twisted:
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Rocket 10 lead amplifier. 12W of solid state buzzsaw. but thinner. like a buzzsaw made of tin sawing a tin can. hideous
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I owned 2 really bad amps when I was first starting to play:
Gorilla combo
Peavey Bandit
After the Bandit I graduated to my first 'real' amp.
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I used to play all my electric instruments through my bass amp, which was okay, except with my guitar, which caused the grate to rattle vioulently for some reason at certain volumes and tones.
Yeah, that was creepy, but actually I have a decent rate at getting decent amps for next to nothing for some reason :D
Edit: Just to add, and keep the trend, the bass amp was actually a ss Peavey amp...
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a Park solid state 10 watt full of cr@p practice amp! God damn it was awful
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Just any 10w SS that comes with a starter pack - I expect most will use the same design anyway, And most are unbranded so they always turn up on ebay for near nothing.
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Hey guys - I've not been here for a while, but was just browsing and thought I'd chip in:
My worst amp was a Marshall MG15 - I've still got it actually...but it could be worse, it could be the MG10 :P
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I've still got one of those tiny Marshall stack things, about 1W and runs on a 9V battery, it's sounds absolutley horrid. I use it for practicing when I'm on holiday as it's got a headphone socket so I can noodle without annoying anyone (also it's small enough to fit in hand luggage) it basically sounds like a chocolate tin full of glass and nails :D
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I've still got one of those tiny Marshall stack things, about 1W and runs on a 9V battery, it's sounds absolutley horrid. I use it for practicing when I'm on holiday as it's got a headphone socket so I can noodle without annoying anyone (also it's small enough to fit in hand luggage) it basically sounds like a chocolate tin full of glass and nails :D
Omg yeah I forgot those - I had one of those and sold it because of the sound...
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I had one of those Park 10w ss amps too ... it was indeed god awful and top of my worst amp list. Just impossible to get anything resembling a nice sound from it.
The Marshall valvestate I had after it wasn't much cop either, but by then I had a Boss Metal Zone pedal for tone :)
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The obligatory first amp: a little Peavey something-or-other
IIRC it was 12w & had an 8" speaker, pre & post gain (with "pull saturation" for the full on wasp-in-a-jar distortion), 3 band eq that did nothing (except for the "pull thick" on the lo control that really should have been called "pull slightly less thin"), headphone out & pre-amp out.
In its defence it was almost indestructible (I tried, I really tried ;)) - once got dropped from a 30ft scaffolding tower, landed on its corner piece & still worked perfectly...
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I guess I'd have to say a little Roland Cube which I owned briefly in 1982 or 1983. I think it was the Cube 40, but might have been a Cube 20. In those days tranny amps really sounded like tranny amps, and the distortion was unbelievably feeble. It was like a little radio. To be fair it probably wasn't meant to sound great distorted, and I was totally clueless about amps in those days (still am, TBH).
I bought it mainly because it was portable and looked very cute, but soundwise it wasn't even as good as my Laney Mighty Eight pratice amp. Can't remember what happened to it - I must have P/X'ed it on my Sessionette 75.
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vox pathfinder (it's actually pretty good for a ss practice amp, just wasn't that good for the more modern stuff i wanted to play when i got it at the start, and by the time i started to appreciate more vintage stuff, i had better amps...)
marshall avt 100 :oops:
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HH Valvestate 100. It sounded great for recording and at low volumes, but when you turned it up for a gig, it started to squeal. I only played out with it one time and then I traded it (I think for a Marshall 50).
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It was a 10 -15 watt Peavey transistor amp back in the 80's. Truly awful. That said I do love my Classic 50 :)
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My first amp. An Aria twin drive 15W or so.
But I've heard worse amps.
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were to start jhs solid state 100w..absolute dog,
then a badger think was 5w...vol and nothing else.(still own that for some reason was in mums loft)
.then a bandit..was ok except kept losing power would go to half or less(bang on top work again) found problem just before sold it was one of the jacks on the fxloop locking on
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I never actually bought it but the Hughes & Kettner matrix was absolutely awefull - and it wasnt supposed to be a practice amp.
The worst amp I ever owned would prob be either the little westfield practice amp that I was flogged as naive first timer or some vox multi -effects modeling amp which was prob worse - can't remember the name though.
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The £40 piece of shite I got from Cash Converters when I first started playing.
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Not including practice amps: laney TF300. Sounded ok unless you turned the bass up and it invariably went all farty on you. Same hapenned with 2 of my mates that had the same thing, so I can only assume its a feature.
Then a carlsbro GLX80 special edition. Depthless, boxy, papery distortion.
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Then a carlsbro GLX80 special edition. Depthless, boxy, papery distortion.
We don't make amps, but if we did, they'd probably be the best amps in the world...
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^^ :lol:
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My first amp was a 1970 WEM Dominator 15w MkII. I still have that, all valve too. It sounds pretty good.
The worst was a 65w Peavey Backstage. I thought it was great when i first got it cos it had 2 channels. It sounds shitee. Anyone wanna buy it? One carefull :P owner :lol: It's in my wardrobe doing nothing, why i still have it is beyond me. I also have a 12w marshall but that sounds ok for what it is.
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For me it was (and than god its in past tense) Roland DAC- 15..........UGH!
4 horrid digital effects.....really $%&#in' crazily bad "tone" ........ fast forward:
Today owner of a Diezel VH4....what a diff!
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The worst amp I've owned myself was a Badger, which was either 10w or 15w, I can't remember which. Either way the sound was totally cr@p and I gave it to a friend for his daughter to practise on as she had nothing at the time. I'd also like to mention my son's Fender Frontman 15w, which is unbelieveably bad for something with 'Fender' written on the front.
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Either way the sound was totally cr@p.
That's what happens when you try to use small mammals as guitar amps...
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My worst amp was a Vox traveller, ironically I'm told theyre worth quite a lot of money, because there where not very many made.
Even with a booster plugged in it would only do totally clean.
It was fecking loud though, the loudest 30W solid state I have ever heard.
Rob...
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Marshall Microstack thing. the battery powered one not the MG series.
I don't think the MG series are bad at all for what they are. Fender Frontman is much worse and so are countless obscure brands you never heard of before. My MG10 kept me happy for a year while learning and I sold it for £30 on ebay. Not a bad £20 spent imo.
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Laney mxd15 harcore maxx
the only good thing is the delay and chorus effect rest is awful
oh yeah it can get useable cleans too
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Marshall JCM900 2x12 combo. I don't know whether it was technically my worst sounding amp but it fell so far short of what I was expecting, utter cr@p. I even changed the speakers and tubes and it still sounded appallingly thin and lacked any dynamics or depth. The MG15 I used after sounded better :?
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I cant remember the make but a small solid state amp with a peculiar slider volume control-technically my brother's so doesn't count.Sounded truly dreadful and ended up at the mercy of my brother's gleeful desire to wreck things-he shot it with his air gun, used my Dad's axe and finally set fire to it (Townsend you are a mild mannered old lady with her knitting in comparison).
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my first one !!!
cr@ppy Realistic mic amp with volume treble and bass i think the speaker was about 8" and it was totally turd...
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Peavey Bandit. Was like a cr@p version of a Metalzone with an amp attached, terrible. Felt kinda guilty selling it on....until I got the cash ;).
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A roland spirit 30. Just terrible.
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If you discount <15wt practice amps, then I have another nomination:
Peavey Duel 212
Snapped it up secondhand for what I thought was a steal - thought I'd love it because it had all the features I wanted in an amp at the time. It may well have done except for one thing: TONE :( - the clean sounds were nice enough & the built in vibrato & reverb were really lush & full. But the lead channel was absolutely VILE - nasal, fuzzy, lifeless, muddy & any other negative adjective you care to think of :(
If playing my Miracle Man FV through the Recto with BBE is metal tonal heaven, then the same FV with a Duncan Custom (/spit) into the Duel 212 was the exact opposite :lol:
It was partly the speakers as it sounded slightly less awful when run through Vintage 30s, but still barely useable.
After a few weeks I relegated it to the garage & bought the Mesa Rectifier that I still use to this day... :)
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Marshall Valvestate head (100watts)
Really the worst.
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Marshall MG50 Omg that sucked
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Marshall MG50 Omg that sucked
i swapped mine for a minimat.... hehehehe :D :twisted:
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Marshall MG50 Omg that sucked
i swapped mine for a minimat.... hehehehe :D :twisted:
Good move!
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My Rocktron RC50 was pretty $%&#ing vile. Also the Squier 10watt amp I had sucked absolute balls.
My Laney HaRdxCoRe MAX 10watter is actually surprisingly toneful for a little SS amp, not bad for £20 2nd hand!
Marshall AVT100 is my current amp and it's an absolute pain in the arse. Tone isn't terrible for what it is but the on-board FX break if you so much as look at them and if you crank it up it feeds back like an absolute bar-steward.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever owned a nice amp!!
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Splawn Competition, Worst amp I've ever owned.. :roll:
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Splawn Competition, Worst amp I've ever owned.. :roll:
I assume this is a joke but your emoticon is sending mixed signals !!
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stupid boy :shock: