fender M-80 - was not expecting that from a fender. take it good or bad either way.
alchemist was a huge letdown.
splawn QR's - ive played 3 of them, didnt like the tone at all - was not "wierd mids" based
metro 50 watter - what marshall tone is all about. i definately want a decent marshall 100W metro kit. great sounding amplifiers
VH4 - only got to spend a few minutes with one. was a great experience. definately gassing for a VH4 in the future.
my 5150 cranked to 6.5 in a church with nothing but a guitar. still nothing has floored me that much.
5150 combo - what i think all the 5150 heads and 5150 II's should have originally sounded like. great amplifier.
bugera when they first came out - first one i ever saw was in a buddies repair shop. what a POS.
fender 5150 III - love/hate relationship. i would not own one unless someone gave me one, then i wouldnt mind.
herbert - what a huge letdown. in some ways simillar to a VH4 - but in other ways its way off.
mesa stilletto - 5 seconds was as long as that amplifier stayed on. definately nothing i knew i could coax out of it.
mesa single rectifier - it actually didnt sound that bad once i used code001's tips for dialing in a mesa. had i not known the right way to set it, it would have sounded like ass. a decent amplifier but not for me at all.
SLO 100 - i just expected more from that amplifier. it was nothing more than a cleaner/clearer sounding than my 5150 II at 3x the price and alot less features.
original fender vibrolux - people speak of fender cleans. i was pretty let down. it was a great clean tone, but lacked the spank of a carvin early model blue voodoo clean and the fullness/3D character of a marshall. sounded surprisinly great with a metal zone in front of it
frenzel FM800 - great, great cleans. what fender and marshall cleans are all about. i want one of these preamps very badly.
vox EL84 push/pull - vox cleans are awsome for blues jams. a buddy has one. totally floored by what i have heard/exierienced. a few people know my intentions with this.
5150 EVH block letter - great amplifier except when its time to retube. these amplifiers depend too much on the preamp types to get tone. if/when its time to replace the preamp tubes, your tone drastically changes.
crate blue voodoo - had the chance to demo one this year. great noodling clean tone - not as bluesy as the fender i played or a marshall. was really surprised at the spank and jingle that clean had. the lead channel sounded like ass.
peavey vypyr - best practice amplifiers out there i think. if only the build quality and design was better on the larger ones.
axe-fx - i hate toying with knobs. and it lacks the punch factor that i like with amplifiers - at least i couldnt get it how i liked with the amount of time i spent playing a friends over at his house. reminded me how much i hated tweaking my G-major
laney GH100TI - silky smoothe gain, silky smoothe cleans. a vanilla shake reminds me of that amplifier - totally out of this world and an amplifier all its own - really cool. i did not expect that from such a guit head.
randall collossus (sp?) - there was one traded in at a GC - and surprisingly it nailed dimebags tone to a T with nothing but the amplifier. that was pretty cool experience - granted the tone wasnt tubed it did sound cold and sterile. but i didnt expect that at all
marshall DSL/TSL - a great platform amplifier - wasnt expecting what i heard though.
marshall JVM - what gained marshall tone is all about - it sounded great i thought. but i would never want to own one.
marshall vintage modern - there must have been something wrong with the one i demoed. i couldnt get it to gain up even with the volume dimed. for some reason i was expecting it to be closer to yngzaklynch's VM. i hope to get a second chance with one in the future.
i think that is all that i have played
