What amp would your 16 year old self buy for at home jamming?

GilmourD said:
At 17 I had a Fender Dual Showman head from 1966 sitting on a Delta-logo era Peavey 412MS cabinet. That's close enough to 16. LOL I still have the 412MS.

At 16 I had a solid-state Fender Deluxe 90.

At 39 I sometimes use my son's Line6 Spider V 30 if plugging into my Jet City Amelia is too loud for the time.

For the record, at 16 I lived in the basement which was also where we kept my brother's drum kit and my father's Trace-Elliot 400W bass stack... So, "at home jamming" was a little different. LOL
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After reading this post, I looked back at the thread title and had a little laugh. At 16, I was lucky enough to have 1 amp and it had to be used for all of my jamming at home, band practice and gigs :grin:
 
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Chad said:
After reading this post, I looked back at the thread title and had a little laugh. At 16, I was lucky enough to have 1 amp and it had to be used for all of my jamming at home, band practice and gigs :grin:
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I forgot the part where I paid for the Dual Showman ($350) with student loans because I had a full tuition scholarship but took the loans to buy books and stuff. LOL The cab was a birthday gift from my parents.

I was financially responsible!!!

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At 16 I also owned a Foxx (the pedal manufacturer) AC30. It was an exact VOX AC30 replica with some VOX parts on it. I think VOX gave them rights to produce it for a couple of years. I never should have let go of that. I've only seen one other one for sale on eBay.


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I also had a Pignose at 17. Sounded amazing with my MXR Distortion + pedal.


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At 11 years old I had my dad's old Sony Superscope reel to reel tape recorder with a built in tube amp for playback. I discovered by plugging into the microphone phono jack that my guitar signal was extremely overdriven and I had incredible fuzz. I played out of that thing constantly.


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Now, when I was 16, this is the amp we thought we needed...
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335clone said:
At 16 my dad wired in a jack to our console stereo amp. :sad:
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Reminds me of my first 'electric' rig. I put headphones around the body of my dad's acoustic, plugged them into the input on my stereo, popped in a cassette and hit Rec+Play+Pause :grin:
 
I think I got my Peavey Classic Chorus 212 when I was 16.

I ended up getting a second one a year or two later and ran a Digitech GSP21 Legend as a preamp into the power sections of the amps.

I loved that rig. Sometimes I wish I still had it.

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