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Just wondering what amp you are using with your 360?
Are you happy with it?

I'm using a 1964 Deluxe Reverb clone and I really like it. It has a Celestion G12H in it and has a mid boost on the normal channel.
I run both normal and vibrato channel at the same time with a Radial Switchbone JX-2.

What are you using with your 360 and how is it working for you?

I don't have a 360, but I do have a March '67 330, does that count for anything?

I plug it into my 1962 Fender Concert Amp (not a clone or reissue ). Sounds great, gets quite loud, too. I love the pitch shifting tremolo on the amp.

I love Fender amps. Mine actually started out as a Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue. I replaced the trannies with Mercury Mags and then I decided to point to point the amp back to 64/65 specs. Probably have as much money & time in it that I could have just bought a real 64/65 Deluxe - crazy but I love it. It sounds really good with my tele and Esquire. But the janglely sound is real nice with the 360.

This. It's all I want, although I'd like to get something smaller farther down the line, like a Princeton Reverb...

Since we are showing pics of our amps, here is mine the day it came home from the store (with the wrong color jewel, since rectified).

Vox AC15C1

I'm plugging into a Brown Vibroverb reissue, but I wish I were plugging into an AC-30.

Nowadays I'm very happy with my Mesa Boogie DC-5 for all my Ricks. I turn down the gain for my 12-string CW 360 and it sparkles. Turn up the gain for my sixers and it's Crunch City.

For the first time here are all three of my amps at home photographed in the Music Cave. The Vox and the MusicMan I use on stage, or at the Academy. The Kustom is my ummmm......practice amp

'68 Fender Super Reverb which I bought new with my 360-12FG. Both still sound AWESOME!

The main amp that runs with my 365 is a 1964 AC-30 head and cabinet. I've also got a 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb (the real thing, not the reissue). While both are cool amps, I prefer the AC-30 with my Ricks and my Gretsch 6119, as it doesn't muddy up as much when you slap a whole bunch of pedals between it and the guitar. My Gibson ES-335 CRR matches up better with the Deluxe Reverb, particularly when it's played as a single coil guitar.

'74 Marshall Lead & Bass 50 Combo.

TONE machine.

Looks like this one:

Vox AC30HWH LTD head with CV212LTD cab (made in England in 2003 just before they moved it all to China).....I'd say it's the best AC30 since the '60's JMI era amps - great tone with lovely onboard reverb.

Well, I guess I'll be the heretic. I run my 360 through an early 90s, Peavey Solo Series Bandit 112. These are an early version of Peavey's TransTube amps.

Photo isn't of mine


It ounds great clean, and killer distorted. Here's a soundclip I made a few weeks ago, of my 360 being played through my Bandit.

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11783294

I've tried my 360/12 through a variety of Fender amps, including a '65 Twin reissue, and a '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue. I still think it sounds the best with my 1997 solid state Fender Princeton Chorus amp (which is not too much different from a Roland Jazz Chorus), and my Vox AC15C1, which sports a real Alnico Blue speaker. When I'm playing through the Princeton Chorus, I always use my JangleBox JB2 (usually on the JangleBoost channel), but the Vox creates so much natural compression and chime that I usually just route the guitar directly into the Top Boost Channel and then tweak the knobs to my liking.