T H E M O N A R C H

So I missed out on like a year in review thing for 2015, so I wanted to try and piece together all the amp deals I got this last year starting in December of 2014…

In the Fall of 2014 I had a Bassman with a Peavey 2x12 and then a Twin Reverb from 1965 that didn’t have speakers. 

I ended up selling the bassman and fixing up the Twin Reverb into a headshell I got from @mmguitarbar. 

I was digging that setup but I wasn’t in love, so in December I traded my Twin and Peavey cab for the Sovtek Mig 100u and the Avatar 4x12 with some cash on top. That was rad, really cool setup but that fucking cabinet was bassy as balls. I ended up selling that to my buddy when we found these Orange cabs SUPER cheap. I got a vintage OR Lead 2x12 and the 90′s OR Lead 4x12. That was a crazy setup. 

I ended up moving the 4x12 because I didn’t really need it for the mesa 2x12 and cash IIRC. 

I had that VTM briefly because I was able to trade that and the Mesa cabinet for the Engl Fireball. Cool trade, rad amp. Somewhere along the lines the Engl was modified and then sold. Before that though I tried out one of the newer Budda Superdrive 30′s and realized that it wasn’t as good as the older Superdrive 30 combo I used to have… I returned it and got the Bandmaster and matching cabinet. 

This is when I sold the Engl and then actually sold the Orange to my buddy. We sold that Avatar finally to another buddy and the Gibson V was just my other friend’s guitar I was doing some work to. Haha. 

Earlier that year, my house had been broken into and I had my entire drumset, a bunch of other valuable things, and tons of other stuff stolen from my house while my dad was away and I was at school. My dad and his lovely girlfriend got me the Rockerverb and SBG1200 as a gift and to try and mend the hell that was the robbery and everything surrounding that. It was and still is the most generous gift I have ever been given. 

I moved the Bandmaster for a Heritage Gold Top that I eventually sold. I took a greenback from that Bandmaster’s cabinet and dropped it in the RV50 combo. Since then I have replaced the one V30 and the one Greenback with a pair of WGS ET-90s and I have also had the gain channel tweaked a bit.

This year was crazy as hell. I think I got that all right… 

Right now I’m the happiest I’ve been with gear. 2015 was pretty crazy

I’m going to try and do this again later with pedals, but it probably won’t work. hahahahaha. I didn’t document enough of the pedals I’ve gotten.

Seen outside a BORIS gig.