Lets see all them Amplifiers!
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Holy Cow that Tuxedo is clean! 6G6B?
Mine. Wish I had the cab.
I like 2204’s, loud enough. The small box S with the matching 1965a/b cabs have bass response unlike most Marshall. 
YY1
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Crate was an incredibly underrated amp back when I was actively playing.
A friend circa 1984 had a 2-12 combo from when they were still actually built like a wood crate with real wood.
That opened my eyes fairly early.
The lead player in my 1987 band bought a 120 watt half stack which was insane with distortion and volume.
I had grown fond of the Marshall tone and to keep up, I bought a Lead 75 1-12 combo, and it did keep up.
I my collection of "under $50" amps I can take with, or let others use", I have a 15w Crate.
It does indeed have that tone. I'm half tempted to build a replacement case out of 1x6 stock.
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tubelectron
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I wonder if I posted some pictures of my Boogie MKIIA 60-100W Rev. Eq. from 1980... 
Below in Hardwood suit :
And here in Tolex suit :
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Below in Hardwood suit :
And here in Tolex suit :
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PattonD
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The Orange Micro Dark and the GK get most of the playing time these days
Guitar
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Peavey Classic 30
Orange Micro Dark
Crate G40C Solid State Guitar Amp
Vox AD30VT XL Valvetronix "Extreme Lead" Combo Ampliifier
Pignose Legendary 7-100 Portable Amp
Bass
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Fender Rumble 25 - 25W 1x8" Bass Combo
Gallien-Krueger Backline 112 Bass Combo
Gallien-Krueger Backline 600 w/ Backline 410BLX 4 x 10 Bass Speaker Cabinet
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Guitar
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Peavey Classic 30
Orange Micro Dark
Crate G40C Solid State Guitar Amp
Vox AD30VT XL Valvetronix "Extreme Lead" Combo Ampliifier
Pignose Legendary 7-100 Portable Amp
Bass
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Fender Rumble 25 - 25W 1x8" Bass Combo
Gallien-Krueger Backline 112 Bass Combo
Gallien-Krueger Backline 600 w/ Backline 410BLX 4 x 10 Bass Speaker Cabinet
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tubelectron
Super Member
The Stack I used for years...
... And still here !
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... And still here !
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Are those 1971-era Fender amps? The grilles kinda look like it.
Just a WAG! Thanks!
Just a WAG! Thanks!
tubelectron
Super Member
My 1974 VC Fender Logo didn't have a tail. But did have the newer silver grille.
There was a lot of mishmash of cosmetics throughout the line in those years.
Cripe I have amps hiding behind amps mow. My early 1970s Traynor tube halfstack is hiding behind my JVM halfstack now. It's hiding under the Gus G Jackson Star laying on top if it
Must be all my medication pushing stuff out of the way
Must be all my medication pushing stuff out of the way
Some of my tube holders.
Gigantic
A big, big love
My amps are a heavily modded Fender Blues Jr III with a dovetail jointed, solid pine cabinet & mods from Rootbeer Audio that are based on the suite of mods from Bill M, with a black panel deluxe tone stack & bias trim pots and a 90's vintage, Celestion G-12H speaker. I still need to replace the grille fabric in Oxblood and at some point, I want to replace the OPT and wire it ptp. I like this amp so much that I sold my Deluxe Reverb Reissue.
my other amp is my endgame, a hand-wired Strange Audio Electronics Luxe Plus, based on the venerated 5E3 circuit with Josh Strange's personal touch in there. It has a athode-biased 6V6GT output section & is 5Y3 rectified, with a 12AY7 preamp and 12AX7 phase inverter and a Weber Legacy 12" speaker. The cabinets are CNC'd in my workshop in North Philly by a colleague, but the amps themselves are made in Phoenixville, PA, a Philly suburb just north of the Main Line.
my other amp is my endgame, a hand-wired Strange Audio Electronics Luxe Plus, based on the venerated 5E3 circuit with Josh Strange's personal touch in there. It has a athode-biased 6V6GT output section & is 5Y3 rectified, with a 12AY7 preamp and 12AX7 phase inverter and a Weber Legacy 12" speaker. The cabinets are CNC'd in my workshop in North Philly by a colleague, but the amps themselves are made in Phoenixville, PA, a Philly suburb just north of the Main Line.
Here's one I've had for quite awhile. These Marshall Classs 5s don't seem to get much love these days. There was a surge of people buying them the first couple of years they were on the market, but I don't think they did what everyone expected from a 5 watt Marshall at the time, big Marshall sound at low volumes. However, they do what they do pretty well, IMO. To me, they're like a modern day Fender Champ. Clean at lower volumes, overdriven when pushed. Probably not what you want when playing with a full band or playing at TV listening volumes, but they do what they do well.
tubelectron
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Yes. @deadbeat son !
I had one too, and modified two of them : one with the reverb facility (for me) and one without it (for a friend)...
Here's mine, the reverb version :
Once modified, my PLEXI 5 offered what was cruelly missing to the Class 5 : the tone of a big marshall at affordable volume...
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