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So, who digs em?
I've been rocking a solid state little 35 watt bogen Challenger at home, and it rules. It's probably my favourite new amp. It is exactly the sound I hear in my head for fuzzy distorted stuff. Too bad it's not louder.

What have you guys got? Anyone else use them?

I've seen a few people use Sound City 200 and 400 for bass amps.

ive had GAs for a fender pa 100 or 135 for a while, they pop up on ebay, but i just dont have a cab that would handle 100 watts atm.

Some of the old Traynor PA amps are vintage Marshall plexis in disguise for $100 on CL if you're lucky.

i use a sunn alpha four PA amp for guitar/bass sometimes. sounds better than almost any amp i've ever owned...cleaner than my concert bass and the spring reverb is titz.

There are those old plush pa's as well. I've always wanted to try one.

devnulljp wrote:Some of the old Traynor PA amps are vintage Marshall plexis in disguise for $100 on CL if you're lucky.

A pal of mine had a Traynor Voice Master, late 60's all og tubes, worked great for jamming for both PA and not having to haul an amp to his place. He sold it for $200 when he was in need of cash. I've seen them converted into amps with three or four different voices and turned into plexi's like the Bass Masters too.

I used to use a 1500 watt solid state QSC power amp for a guitar amp. Just add pre-amp and pedals. It sounded great for fugly grindcore-sludgecore we were playing at the time.

Doesn't one of the guitarists from Fu Manchu preamp his Marshall with an old Peavey PA head? Pretty sure I read that in an interview.

i rock a fender pa100 as my main amp and it's great! in the past i converted a few random old pas to amps with varying degrees of success - some of them i messed with were really dark and would probably need significant changes to make it useful for playing with a band. for use alone they were nice, though.

the coolest thing i did on a 2 channel was to convert 1 of the channels to a gain stage in the amp, so channel 1 was gain and channel 2 was master.

I have one of the old Kustom 200 watt PA heads, have used it for both guitar and bass and it sounds awesome. If it was lighter I would use it all the time for everything.
I used to hvae 2 vertical 4x12 cabs that matched it and would use the whole set up as a full stack, they were stolen a while back but I kept the head.

Simms Watts stuff sounds pretty excellent.

+1 for the Fender PA100. I just picked one up for $100, sounds amazing!

Pulling the trigger on that 200 watt Kustom... $170 for that plus a cab. Shit, I'm pumped. :shrug:

Marshall Super PA?

I've been looking into this since my "Simple Amps" thread.