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All-original Hiwatt DR103. None better..nothing compares.

Music Man HD130. Totally perfect for totally anything.
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Fender "The Twin", cheap because they're ugly and not cool but built like a tank and if you plug into both channels at once and balance - voila!

Respect to the H&H owner too. Fucking rad amps. And they glow green!

HOLY SHIT! That's my first guitar amp! My one is still sitting in my parent's attic! Ahhh, the memories - my Dad got it for 50 pounds or so from some work friend, and God, I loved that amp....maybe it's time for me to ship it stateside...the pots were dirty as hell when I left it, but that's easily fixed and I'm getting nostalgic now....

You definitely should. I need to get one, but as I said I only have the space for the head version.

Seriously, H/H and in particular the VS series must be up there with the best amps ever made.

I don't have the one that glows green though. That's the one I want, but I'm very happy with my "Studio-100 Power Baby".

That's what it's called.

Uhm, I love my JCM 800.

I am certain that this is not cool. But I love it. It sounds very good to me. And it was painted by some previous owner with purple house paint, which makes it, uhm, "unique."

Ive had a couple of silver face Super Reverbs in the past, and they were great amps. Good for recording bass, too.

And a tiny solid-state Ampeg, the G-10 I think, that consistently rules for all kinda trickery and overdubs.

But my JCM 800? Love.

chrissummerlin wrote:Fender "The Twin", cheap because they're ugly and not cool but built like a tank and if you plug into both channels at once and balance - voila!

Hell yeah! The Fender Evil Twin is my favorite of the amps I own. Take out the 2 center power tubes, half the impedance and throw the 3/4 power switch down...its still loud as fuck, and you can really soak the tubes. Great, great amplifiers. Heavy though...I think they're made out of lead and dark matter...

Wierd... My current amps that I quite enjoy...

H/H V/S - (Yes, the one that glows green... The head version.)
Mesa Boogie Mark2B - Love it.
Traynor Mono Block II (for Bass) Killer amp.

Man, I thought I was the only one that liked the H/H amps. I'm a bit bummed about the totally cheap, scratchy pots though. I guess that its easy enough to get them replaced. Oh yeah, it doesn't have reverb either, although I never use reverb anyway. and it's also got a 'Valve Sound' knob!!

still loving the YBA-1A for big guitar, though i've been playing it into a Kustom cab with 2 G12T-75's rather than the SVT410 which is moving to the bass role (as soon as the V4 is ready to rock).

for still-loud-but-smaller-than-big, i recently replaced my '65 twin reissue with a Laney GC30V, which is doing exactly what i had hoped it would: go from an excellent clean to an equally excellent dirty based solely on guitar volume/ pick dynamics.

for small, not-so-loud, i have two mid 60's R-12-RB Reverberockets that have a really nice "old-school" sound.

and then not unlike Voltron, all can be comined into the giant-sized setup, which is definitely my favorite, sonically anyways:

guitar signal split with ABY pedal,
"A" leg through Super Duper into the YBA1A -> Kustom 2x12,
"B" leg through ibanez SC10 stereo chorus,
kept stereo through Line6 delay,
fed to Reverberocket and Laney on either side of YBA1A.

the full setup is definitely not so portable, but man does it make some nice sounds!

i love my 1960 fender pro. it sounds so good.

-e

Ampeg Superjet 12T. All tube, reverb, tremolo and can be bought without paying vintage prices for an old Supro. And it is more reliable than a Vox. Plus I can carry it in one hand and my guitar in the other, making load in a cinch. Sounds great clean, even better with a SansAmp for overdrive.