Worst amp you've ever heard

[zeegler]

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Genz Benz El Diablo - Tried one out at a local music store recently. This thing is the most useless thing to ever claim to be a guitar amplifier. HORRIBLE.

[Riscchip]

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Peavey Audition 30.

[zeegler]

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On a side note, how the hell does Marty get good tones out of his Crates? It seems to be the concensus that the just plain suck. Why are the Crate guys not in jail for all this horror they have unleashed upon us guitar players?

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You know, it's funny. The first time I ever saw a Blue Voodoo was years ago when they first came out. I tried it out at Steve's music in Toronto, and I loved it immediately. It had tons of gain, lots of bottom end, wasn't buzzy, just sounded great. A few months later I tried one at House of Guitars in Rochester. I assumed something was wrong with it. It was noisy, and would feedback even at low volumes. Try as I might, I could net get it to sound good.

Then last year, I bought one at a local music store. When I tried it out, it was just like the one at Steve's. It sounded good right away, and I could crank it without feedback to a pretty high volume.

After hearing all of you guys slag them, I'm thinking I must be really lucky to have found a good one. Perhaps the one I thought was broken, was just a normal one. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Either way, I still like mine.

[MetalMedal II]

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Man, I can't believe nobody has said the magic name yet:

"GORILLA"

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It was the first name I thought of when I read the title!...But I was totally stoked when I bought one (my first amp, the TC-35) for I think $88, and almost as stoked when I sold it years later for like $35! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

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On a side note, how the hell does Marty get good tones out of his Crates? It seems to be the concensus that the just plain suck. Why are the Crate guys not in jail for all this horror they have unleashed upon us guitar players?

[/ QUOTE ]You assume he actually uses them.

[/ QUOTE ]Just curious; do you know for a fact that he doesn't use them?Worst amp I ever played was a Sunn Beta Lead. Bleh!!!

[quiksilver]

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I also thought of Gorilla immediately when I read the title of this post. Next, I thought of the Peavey Bandit 65. Both horrible, horrible amps.

[Firebird V]

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Oh Yeah... A Carvin from the 80's. It was the tube head they were pushing back then... I am sure some of you know which one I am talking about. I hated that thing really sucked bad. Not a decent clean or dirty. Just plain sh!t... I thought it was going to rock but damn was I wrong. Funny thing is that I owned a Quad X and that I liked...

[jgcable]

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Those Roland Cube amps are awful

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I have a Roland Cube 30 and I think it is fanstastic. So does just about every person who has ever heard it.. except you. I recorded all my MP3's using it straight into my SoundBlaster Audigy 2 sound card. It ever records great. I don't want to include all the cheap crappy amps out there so I will just go with a semi-high end crap amp. The Fender Cybertwin. Every amp it tries to model sounds like a Fender. Even the Rectifier setting sounds like a Fender.

[Twisteramps]

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On a side note, how the hell does Marty get good tones out of his Crates? It seems to be the concensus that the just plain suck. Why are the Crate guys not in jail for all this horror they have unleashed upon us guitar players?

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You assume he actually uses them.

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He did, at least at the time of the Guitar Xpress/Jackson clinic in Tulsa a few years ago. I cornered Marty for a few minutes and asked him about them... they are bone stock and he really liked them. Marty didn't want to play Marshalls, and the BV's were very reliable on the road for him.

At the clinic, Marty played through a BV head that was borrowed from someone in Tulsa, and also a Jackson cab with the red speakers. It sounded like Marty, ask anyone else who was there. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Pete

FYI, I think the BVs suck, but Marty did get a nice tone that day.

[jazzman]

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Rodrigo mentioned Gorilla. Yes very bad. What about Quantum? Yes, also very bad. Oh yeah, Rogue! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[toddstaples]

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Marshall TSL. I had to borrow one once and couldn't give it back fast enough.

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Hahahaha!!!!
Whos wat that, chuck? [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]
I have to agree. TSL Series....

[Venomboy]

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Any Crate combo from the 80's.

Marshall DSL, TSL

Any Gorilla amp

GK solid state 1x12 combo with 2 midrange controls I owned in the late 80s

Genz Benz El Diablo

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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Damn Pete, I remember you and Greg posting about that clinic with Marty after it happened. That must've been 4 years ago!

[mudkicker]

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MMMMMM alot of Crate bashers. I have had my Crate G-60GT the ones that came with the Celestions since 87 or 88. It has a killer tone and is very verstile.
First thing that came to mind like many others was Gorilla, and Peavey Bandit.

[nor]

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Mosfet Marshall