The silverface fender bassman amp from the 1970s has a great reputation as an affordable, vintage tube rig for guitarists, delivering plenty of volume, great tone, and an excellent chassis, offering easy preamp and tone stack modification. Looking to get a fender head for an avatar 2x12 with a vintage 30 and greenback. The fender bassman pro 100t is a very nice tube amp with two input channels, 4 6550 power tubes and am auto bias circuit. Guitar is a 20 gibson les paul r9 tobacco burst available at lavg. In early 1952, the fender bassman amplified a great new invention the fender precision bass guitar. The original fender tvfront bassman of 1952 was a barebones amp with two knobs volume and tone and two instrument inputs on a topmounted control panel, a bottommounted copperplated steel chassis and what fender billed as a specially designed jensen p15n speaker. The bassman was a combo amp in the tweed era with the 1. The bassman has become so synonymous with the sixstring fraternity that when fender reissued the. Personally i think it is important not to think of this amp as an update of the old fender bassman it is a new amp in its own right and should be judged as such. Sunn 300t fender bassman 300 pro crackling noise help discussion in amps and cabs bg started by thedude77md, jul 21, 2010. Does anyone use the fender bassman for bass anymore.
This 50 watt reissue features a lacquered tweed covered, fingerjointed pine cabinet, 4 jensen special design speakers, and internal bias pot to adjust bias on the two 6l6gc power tubes. The next example will demonstrate this quite nicely. Replace it with a 10kohm potentiometer, and thats it. Fender barrel knob, cream white with brass inset and setscrew as used by. This kind of crack generally occurs around a dental filling. A word about purchasing any of these rare vintage amps, these amps need to be regularly cared for. Think it also has a high end gain channel for some more marshall crunch type of stuff. Fender just continued to use up old tube charts til they were gone. At 50 watts, it competed easily with the common instrumentation of the day. The silverface bassman amps are also awesome, but they dont sound like the tweed combos except in a vague fender sense. I had an older 6g6b circuit bassman with teh presence knob but like the ab165 better.
Fender bassman 59 reissue settings gretschtalk forum. During the different eras the bassman amp came in many different shapes and. It has 4 new hand coned alnicos and sounds incredible. The video below compares a bassman ab165 to a princeton reverb and a deluxe reverb. Screw spacing is 5 inches centertocenter, strap length is 5 58 endtoend. The 50s fender bassman was the pro bassists answer to amplifying a great new invention. Discussion in amps and cabs started by hadden, sep 7, 2009. This included a transistorized version of the bassmana 105watt piggyback beast with. I had an amp tech go through and replace all of the tone caps to match that of the fender super reverb specs.
Just had the mods on my 1978 fender bassman ten completed. Revisit chassis straps for fender large 5 for twin, bassman, super, showman, vibroking, pro, pro reverb, prosonic, etc. Ive been researching the riveraera range of amps since 2004 and it looks like they made around three thousand bassman 20s. He also used a 1962 or 1963 fender tremolux head in the same manner, as pictured below. He said hed lose money trying to sell it and hed rather give it to someone who would use it. Besides being a popular and important amplifier in its own right, the bassman also became the foundation on which. Although the tube chart remnant indicated what was probably a ab165 circuit, inspection of the circuit was clearly an aa864. So, to make the reissue amp look like and be safer than an original bassman, fender eliminated the death cap but just installed the unconnected ground switch to fill the hole and installed a safer 3 wire power cord. Aug 30, 2007 the silverface fender bassman amp from the 1970s has a great reputation as an affordable, vintage tube rig for guitarists, delivering plenty of volume, great tone, and an excellent chassis, offering easy preamp and tone stack modification. Hes looking for a really clean 50s rockabilly sound. I have a 1966 fender bassman that id like more info about. In this video and at the end of this description, i document all of the differences in two original fender tweed bassman amps, 1959.
This amp is exactly what youd expect from a handwired 5f6a circuit tweed bassman, it was built by john grammatico of this one is not a kingsville circuit. The mystery of the fender bassman 5f6a schematic cracking the. Product type bass amplifiers 6 series bassman pro 6 platforms pro tube 5. Bassman 100 pn 0224503000 120v service manual contents. Originally intended to amplify electric bass, many guitarists found the tone to be very pleasing and began using this amp for guitar. The original bassman had a ground switch and a death capacitor to help with line noise when everything had 2 wire power cords. In this episode i show you my fender bassman 100 head and its strange 4x12 speaker. Most of the bassman tens ive cracked open use the same pt as bandmaster reverb and super reverb from the same era. Bassman 10 mods in pg mag discussion in amp central station started by stratohiker, nov 20, 2010. Every serious guitarist should have some sort of 50s bassman in their arsenal. It was introduced in 1951, primarily targeted for bass guitar players and promoted as a bass amp for the fender precision bass guitar, the first massproduced electric bass guitar ever. This powerful 50watt rig could easily compete with the common instrumentation of the day.
Add to this the fact that the first marshall amplifiers were largely leveraged from the bassmans circuit design which in turn spawned a countless array of further clones as time passed, and its easy to understand why the fender bassman was the. A simple circuit, but supposedly a fantastic sounding one if you can open it up. Unfollow fender bassman amp to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Thats why fender introduced the new bassman tv series whose look and sound is very close to the bassman amps of the early 50s. Ive been working on this amp for an extended period as im able to carve out some bench time. This was a period that encompassed fenders 1965 sale to cbs and the summer 1966 start of fenders illfated experiment with solidstate electronics. The photo on the left shows the cabinet after the old tolex was stripped off. The blackface bassman with black tolex covering and black knobs existed basically unchanged until 1967.
Fender bassman 1965 circuit ab165 amp demo youtube. The incidences of cracks in teeth seem to have increased during the past decade. Weve yet to use the amp at a gig, but hes worried about breakup at higher volumes. This leads to some poor soul complaining that his bassman doesnt sound like the one used by his favorite guitar player. Vor allem bei plotzlich stechenden aufbissschmerzen oder einem. Fender 19601964 for the fender bassman, showman and bandmaster amp, and for several fender custom shop and fender reissue amps. Fender bassman 5b6 amplifier projects audio artillery.
I did not change any resistor value in the bias voltage divider circuit, which may have been a mistake. Fender has always made good use of the desire most guitar and bass players have for legendary instruments that are very difficult to get a hold of nowadays. Tokai les paul directly through fender bassman with line6 4x12. Nov 16, 2010 i was recently given an early70s fender bassman 10 by a dear friend of mine who said he couldnt get it to overdrive. Tone master, custom vibrolux reverb, vibroking, super sonic amp blonde etc. Id heard good things about the fender bassman line and found the 5b6 model over at the fender amp field guide. Pcb assypreamp pcb assy pwramp chassis assy cabinet assy end item drawings fender musical instruments corp. Even though its called a bassman its really just like another guitar amp circuit. Apr 16, 2017 in this episode i show you my fender bassman 100 head and its strange 4x12 speaker.
Adding a midrange control to fender amps that have no midrange control. How to bias a fender bassman ab165 the 6l6 amplifier i chose is a 1969 fender bassman head ab165. The fender ultra linear bassman 70 is not a bad amp at all 2 6l6 power tubes, 70 watts thought 6l6 was a 25 watt tube. Ej, 4 x 10 speakers, has been fully serviced and sounds amazing. Fender literally wrote the book on electric basses, laying the foundation for musical innovation and evolution. Ive never heard it but its a bit simpler than the more popular 5f6a model and i think lower power. There are many versions of the blackface bassman out there. Oct, 2015 fender 1966 bassman head modded by roy blankenship into a kerry wright 2 x 10 cabinet. From the blonde era fender made the bassman as a amp head and 2. At the time the bassman was designed there wasnt much difference between a guitar and bass amp. Mods for fender blonde, blackface, and silverface bassman heads. I love this rig for its sound, looks and light weight. Unfollow fender bassman to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
The pt was original, but the ot was a fender bassman ot with a date code of 1965 and the choke was also from 1967. Original power and output transformers, choke coil replaced. The fender bassman 100t thread discussion in amps and cabs bg started by tim1, apr 6, 2012. Dental practitioners need to be aware of cracked tooth syndrome cts in.
The confusion arises when people misread the tables at. Sold 1955 fender bassman, tweed, narrow panel, two input version, tube chart code. The early silverface bassman amps could have an ab165 circuit or an ac568 circuit. There are a plethora of bassman heads out there, and just as many circuit variations.
New listing evh 5150iii 50watt 6l6 112 combo amp black. I told him it was never designed to overdriveit was built to stay clean. The vlei, a parched saltpan with cracked shards of dried mud and eroded clay soil. In 1991 fender saw fit to reissue the bassman as the fender vintage reissue 59 bassman ltd. Mods for fender blonde, blackface, and silverface bassman. These are very old and may need to be or may have been serviced in the past. I am playing the amp with matching fender 410 neo cabinet for over a year now yes, the cab is light weight too. I rewired the gawdawful bias balance circuit into a true bias adjust circuit. Been checking out fender bassmans but someone told me that the fender supersonic sounds much like the old 66 bassman, but with extra components to model the 65 vibrolux. Since my last post ive actually had a fender bassman 100 on loan, and when comparing what was inside that amp to wally bills layout noticed another discrepancy the bass channels deep switch on his layout has the 1m resistor going to the middle pin of the volume pot, contrary to the amp i had open in front of me. I wanted a nice clean amp to play rockabilly tunes on.
The fender bassman is a legendary guitar amp known to both guitar and bass players. Sunn 300t fender bassman 300 pro crackling noise help. Tooled from the original fender part, nickel plated. The fender bassman is a great amp, even by todays standards. Well, by following this guide, you can decide which bassman head is best suited to you. Dont ever open up a tube amp unless you clearly understand which. My other son plays a mexican fender telecaster through a fender bassman 59 reissue amp. All of these behaviors place the teeth under extra strain and render them more susceptible to cracking. Tube amps on the left hand tab of the bass control looking at it from the back is a 6.
Fender bassman 100 doctor guitar episode 42 youtube. Have had so many good years playing and gigging with this amp. Save 1963 fender bassman to get email alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Fender 1966 bassman head modded by roy blankenship into a kerry wright 2 x 10 cabinet.
Hi, up for sale is my fender bassman 800 hybrid head and 810 neo cab. Allgemeine zahnheilkunde crackedtoothsyndrom risse in. However, the reality is that fender made many improvements to the blackface circuit, so there isnt really one single blackface circuit. That being said i own a 65 pre cbs bassman with the ab165 circuit even though the chart says aa165 and love it. Tone master, custom vibrolux reverb, vibroking, super sonic amp.
The fender bassman is a bass amplifier introduced by fender during 1952. Pete townshends 64 blonde fender bassman amplifier head with gold weave grille. Fender blue label 10 oxford vintage speaker for bassman 10 need recone. It appears to be a heavy relicd early 90s fender 59 ri that was gutted, rebuilt ptp with quality parts.