Best line of ampeg

BassMan02 · Tiger Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 848

I know everybody will probably say bass amps, but I know people that swear there guitar stuff is better.
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supermau · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:02 am Post subject:

I've got an old V4 head that's pretty cool. It must weigh about 3 megatons. Ain't no fun to haul around.

Of course Ampeg bass gear is tops. I'd love to get my hands on one of those old Scroll basses they used to make. Those are so cool looking.

BassMan02 · Tiger Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 848

I got a V-6b head and that thing out weighed on of my mesa 4x10 cab
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BassMan02 · Tiger Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 848

My friend had on of those scroll basses about a year ago. He since traded it in towards a Marshall proxy head.
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gibson_thunder · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:08 pm Post subject:

now the question...what was Ampegs best head? I vote for the original tube-SVT...anybody have any ol` Ampegs they wanna get rid of? Very Happy

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BassMan02 · Tiger Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 848

I like the SVT-AV myself. It is simple but has everything you could want in a head.
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supermau · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 8:25 am Post subject:

I'm not that picky on this crap. The old stuff has it's merits and so does the new stuff.

bassman80189 · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject:

Ampeg makes great amps. Period. I've heard a lot of praise about their guitar amps from many guitarists as well. I beleive that they're guitar amps are mainly jazz amps and therefore there bass amps are more versital and have overall better quality.

bobyoung · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 12:31 pm Post subject:

SVT is definitely the best amp they ever made, it's still around after 34 years although not as good as the original and I'm talking of course about the all tube SVT, the classic is an updated all tube SVT and is a good amp but the old ones kill them in sound. The old V4's were nice sounding amps also, V4-B's (bass) VT22's, VT40's they made a lot of nice guitar amps but knew where their bread and butter lie: bass amps, starting with the old B-15N which was and still is a great amp.

SLAPBASSPLAYA5 · Newbie Alert Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 4

i've got a BA-115 bass amp. its wonderfull Very Happy

ehiunno · Newbie Alert Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

the b-15N has the best sound of any of ampegs bass amps in my opinion... but then again thats not a head... well it is, but its not

mayB its just cuz i have one and have never played an SVT or V-4B
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BassMan02 · Tiger Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 848

b-15n's are excellent I prefer the b-18n's because it is an 18 and you can't go wrong with an 18.
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ehiunno · Newbie Alert Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

most definatly the fliptops have thier own sound that i cant get enough of

except for those new solid state ones ampeg is making...

i saw on another thread you had one and sold it quickly.. why??
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BassMan02 · Tiger Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 848

gees that was a while ago....I sold the thing to a friend for $100 more that I paid for it and I also wanted a Gibson EBO and I used the money from the ampeg to pay for the EBO. Plus at the time at plenty of bass amps. I still see the thing once in a while though.
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chebass88 · Not So Newbie Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

I have an old B-15N Portaflex and a new BA-115. I only practice with the portaflex, and use the other for gigging. I am in love with the Ampeg sound. I read somewhere that the B-15 portaflex is the most recorded amplifier of all time. Could someone provide a reference for this fact?

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