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« on: June 10, 2007, 02:06:09 AM »
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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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2007, 02:09:30 AM »
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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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2007, 03:32:18 AM »
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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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2007, 04:50:19 AM »
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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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2007, 07:50:28 AM »
a Park solid state 10 watt full of cr@p practice amp! God damn it was awful
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2007, 09:06:00 AM »
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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« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2007, 10:05:01 AM »
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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« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2007, 11:02:49 AM »
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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« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2007, 11:04:35 AM »
Quote from: Dreichlift
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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« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2007, 11:07:33 AM »
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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« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2007, 11:16:52 AM »
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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« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2007, 11:33:32 AM »
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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« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2007, 11:43:30 AM »
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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« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2007, 01:17:11 PM »
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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« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2007, 03:48:18 PM »
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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