Members peavey_impact Posted January 4, 2013 Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 Originally Posted by teemuk - One was a Hitachi-made "Princeton" amp from late 60's. Single channel that sounded as warm and harmonically rich as tapping a phonebook with a stick ROFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wayne2 Posted January 4, 2013 Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 I've been lucky with amps but when I started out I made my own guitar cable using the stiff coax cable from Radioshack that's normally used for cable television. Bad idea. Not only bad materials but when I cut it up years later to salvage the connectors I found my young self didn't even solder the tabs correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NinjaRaf Posted January 4, 2013 Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 Ive had a few...starting with my marshall belt clip amp. I also had a crate blue voodoo and a little smokey...both were absolutely horrible lol. Everything else that Ive had Ive been able to get pretty good tones out of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phaeton Posted January 4, 2013 Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 Originally Posted by Wayne2 I've been lucky with amps but when I started out I made my own guitar cable using the stiff coax cable from Radioshack that's normally used for cable television. Bad idea. Not only bad materials but when I cut it up years later to salvage the connectors I found my young self didn't even solder the tabs correctly. Yeah, in my previous story about the G-Blaster amp project I also got a non-working guitar cable with brass ends on it. Never seen brass ones before or since. I ended up cutting the ends off and using other wire I had- I want to say unshielded 32-gauge stuff I probably yoinked out of a dead VCR or boombox. It seemed to work good enough for that application, but in any other situation I'm sure it would have resulted in moderate to severe bonerdeath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Turner Posted January 4, 2013 Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 The worst sounding amp I ever owned was a Squire Champ. It was a little POS practice amp I used for jazz lessons in college. Very anemic and cold sounding, but it did only cost me $15 The worst sounding tube amp I ever owned is ties between a Crate Blue Voodoo 60 and a Marshall DSL 50 w/ Mercury Magnetics transformers and power choke. Now don't me wrong, I love the Marshall JCM 2000 DSL amps. I used a stock DSL 50 for 4 years. But the "upgraded" MM iron neutered the hell out of this DSL. It became thin and buzzy and lost all that classic Marshall roar. Mercury Magnetic really botched that design. The Crate Blue Voodoo 60 was just bland and messy sounding on the overdrive channel. The clean channel was pretty decent, but it to was pretty meh sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i3oosted Posted January 4, 2013 Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 Originally Posted by Ovid9 Probably the 15 watt Fender SS practice amp I started with. It wasn't even a Frontman 15 watter. I mean, it worked for its purpose of practicing but it sounded amazingly horrible for anything except basic clean practicing. This. It had a distortion button that should be named white noise dubbed over your playing button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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