Antero wrote:What is the last of those, and why is it fucked up?
good question.
the VIBRATION TECHNOLOGY VT140: the first "real" amp I owned. I bought it in 1987 used for like $100 from a dude who had recently moved to Virginia from Ontario. He had purchased it in the late 1970's. It came with a grey 4X12 cabinet loaded with celestions, and a big honkin' midrange horn. Advertised as a bass amp. Manufactured by "Vibration Technology" of Canada. there was a "purchased at Song Bird Music" sticker on it if I recall. It was covered entirely in grey vinyl. It had little metal legs that elevated it above its 4X12 cab, and the little legs had velcro on them. In retrospect it looked like a Traynor copy, but grey.
It kind of sucked for bass, but it was better than a Peavey or a Crate. It had this weird "sustain" knob that when you turned it up it just turned into a weird insecty fizzly compressed sound. I took it to several amp techs and nothing was found "wrong" with the signal path or transistors going to this pot, so I just left the sustain pot on 0 whenever I played bass through it.
A few years later (92), I started playing guitar. Bought a Kramer aluminum neck single coil strat-copy thing, and played guitar through it. WHOA! That sustain knob made the amp sound like fucking missile attack with bricks attached. Somewhere between the Big Black guitar sound mixed with Gang of Four with this deep girth underneath it. Not sure the best way to explain it, but it was both bassy (without being farty) and glassy with a razor-blade attack. I used it in several bands and always got "whoa- that's fucking cool" compliments from other guitarists.
Ironically, my first year college dorm mate (a guitar student dork) was in some prog cover band, and he dug it enough to play through it in lieu of his shiny new Marshall JCMwhatever..
I have no idea where this amp is now, and searches on Google for "VT140" or Vibration Technology prove fruitless. I did find this, however:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-242141.html[/url]
