54 yrs old, and I love all kinds of music, but tend play heavier stuff. These days down tuned stuff on the thrashy side of stoner metal. Think High On Fire, COC, Orange Goblin, Goatsnake...
Peavy Rage 158
Crate G1500 half stack
Fender London Concert Reverb (this was actually a really awesome sounding SS amp through a good cab)
Yamaha T100C
Mesa Tremoverb 2x12 this was my first real amp imo, and I loved the hell out of this amp for years. I had it modded to use EL34's with the SS diodes, and got a custom Roadking headshell from Mesa to convert it to a head without flipping it to where everything was upside down and backwards. Ran it with a few different cabs.
Hiwatt Custom 100. Holy shit. When I was young after I started playing and every hard rock player either was playing through a Marshall or Boogie I saw Townshend and Gilmour's Hiwatts and was like
. It's been my grail amp for years, and once I got one I was blown away. There's nothing else like it imo. Huge, deep, percussive, and the upper midrange snarl is flat out nasty. With a really good distortion or fuzz I will take it for metal and doom over any amp out there. Where other amps flatten out and turn to mush, this amp spits it out with clarity and punch. Enough so that it sent my Tremoverb to GC used, and the T-Verb is an amazing amp.
Reeves Custom 100. Ditto the above.
Hi-Tone Custom 100. More of the same.
Dr Z Rt 66. Oh so fat rich and creamy. It's like the double fudge chocolate milkshake of amps.
Matamp GT150 - Like being bludgeoned by a spiked mace, or buried by an avalanche, or both at the same time.
Magnatone Panoramic Stereo head. What an amazing amp. There aren't a ton of tones in it that I'd use often, but the couple of tones I really loved out of it were amazing. It gets ratty and raw with it cranked, but the just past breakup tones that rolled back to gorgeous cleans and took OD's and fuzz were awesome. Lots of great retro tones. Then there's the real reason to buy a Magnatone, the switchable stereo Tremolo/Pitch Shifiting Vibe that is unlike anything I've ever heard and reverb that is second to none for drip and depth. Mine was stolen, but I will have another, or maybe go with the 6V6 powered Stereo Twilighter.
Ampeg VT22. There are so many tones in there for a NMV single channel amp, and damn that reverb is insane. Like playing in a giant cavern.
The amps I still have are the Hiwatt and Reeves Custom 100's, Matamp GT150, and Ampeg VT22. Played through various 4x12's, or an open back 2x12 and open back 1x15.
