Yamaha G100-115

Benjamin Franz · Post by **Benjamin Franz** » 17 Jul 2020 3:50 am

Does anybody have experience with these amps? Specifically the 1st generation, no parametric eq, Iâ€™m guessing seventies. Single stock Yamaha fifteen inch speaker.

Paul Wade · Post by **Paul Wade** » 20 Jul 2020 7:24 am

ben,

here is some insight on the amp...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyBMvjxII-8

paul

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 20 Jul 2020 8:01 am

That Paul Rivera interview is specifically about the 2nd generation with parametric EQ, not 1st.

I like the 2nd generation with parametric EQ best. Clean is very nice - surprisingly nice, in fact - and distortion not bad for a solid-state amp. I had one of them years and years ago, picked it up for practically nothing.

I've played the 1st generation. Clean was good, but I thought the distortion was pretty shrill.

3rd generation was weakest, in my view. I didn't even like the clean channel, it didn't sparkle like the first two.

But the first two generations are pretty nice clean machines if you can get them reasonable. I thought the original speakers sounded good - and I think having a good, clean speaker that can handle the power cleanly is important in these. Either way, I strongly suggest you try out before buying - we're talking 40-45 year old amps at this point.

Benjamin Franz · Post by **Benjamin Franz** » 20 Jul 2020 3:47 pm

Thanks for the replies. I had watched that YouTube, Paul, but Dave is right in that the one I was looking at was pre Paul Riviera. I ended up buying it at a bargain. It’s a great sounding amp, And loud and clean as all get go. Reverb is pretty underwhelming, so I’ll be using a reverb pedal.