Fender Bassman - What Did SRV Love About This Amp?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- In today's video, Paul Drew and James Ivey take a look at the awesome Fender Bassman.
Combining the best of authentic Fender bass sound with modern power, the Bassman 800 Head is an easily portable powerhouse with a flexible, thunderous tone. Designed for the ultimate bass-playing experience, it offers two versatile channels, classic good looks, and ultra-musical Fender tube tones-all in a lightweight chassis (only 17 lbs.) that mates perfectly with Bassman Pro Neo speaker cabinets to create a tonal monster.
FEATURES
Two-channel hybrid bass amplifier head
Tube preamp, solid-state power amp; 800W
Vintage and Overdrive preamp channels
XLR line output, tuner output and effects loop
Lightweight 17 lbs. (7.7kg)
Mates perfectly with Bassman Pro series Neo speaker enclosures
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
Bassman 70 (77-83)----Fender switched back to the blackface era cosmetics some time in 1980. Bassmans produced between late 1980 and 1983 have a black control panel and silver sparkle grille cloth.
I’ve had a 64’ BF Bassman AA864 circuit for many years- it’s a fantastic amp that goes from clean to mean very easily. Kept it vs a 79’ Marshall 1959 head.
I have the exact same amp love it!
My high school amp. In "71" with 2 cabs 2 Jensen speakers each cab!❤
I played thru a pair of 66 Bassman heads for years going into a nice pair of Marshall 4x12's. There was no need to attenuate since we were bringing the balls to the party!
Oh ok
I believe that I read that Jimi plugged into a Bassman that was in the studio, to record
Little Wing.
I have a 1969/70 model. Silver face. I’ve had it since 1972. I don’t need a Marshall or a Vox. Best amp I’ve ever had
What do you use for a cabinet with it ?
Have a 72 baseman bought in ,,74 my graduation present too me.
IMO the bassman is the most important amp of all time. There would be no Marshall without it. I love my Victoria 45410 (tweed bassman). Big punchy tone
that probably holds true for the original Mesa Boogie Mk 1 which I believe was designed after the Fender Bassman amp.
@@jimdep6542 Yep kept my Mk2C as it keeps going and has amazing tones and reliable. Bought a Boss katana for weight/simplicity at gigs but it doesn't come close to any of my valve amps
@@Geetarhed I agree. There's nothing like the real thing.
Too true Nick, can't beat tubes. Keep up the good work in NZ
If you love the Bassman, you should check out a Friedman Buxom Betty. They are killer. The Synergy version Dave Friedman designed is fantastic as well.
YES! Glad this one is getting captured for the ToneX Vol. 2 pack. Hoping the Budda is too...and if you want to also capture the Suhr PT-100 everyone would be thrilled with that one too - cough cough. :)
I love the sound of Bassmans, but hate maintaining vintage amps. I got the Synergy Bassman module, and it sounds fantastic. Best of both worlds.
Tonex Pack 2!!!
So true! I had an early 70s (silverface) Fender Bassman 100 that was the best-sounding amp I ever heard, for guitar or bass.
All that I know about the Bassman is that Mike Ness of Social Distortion uses modified 1967 Fender Bassman amps with Marshall reissue 4X10 cabs with P90 equipped Les Paul's to get his tone. I had a Fender Mustang modeling amp and the Bassman setting was my favorite tone that it had.
He also has a Klon on the way into the amp for some extra push when he wants it.
4-10 is the BEST way to go with a bassman
They are colourful and fucking load as hell !
My biggest gear selling regret is a 1969 Bassman Export Amp.
Picked it up at Macari's for £100 in 1990.
This isn’t a blackface in the normally accepted sense. It’s probably from the 80s, when Fender produced several amps with the black panel - like the Concert, the Fender 30 etc - but these are not ‘blackface’ amps. The real blackface amps preceded the silverface amps in the 60s. Whilst this is maybe ~40 years old, it does have a black panel, and it might sound great, it is not a ‘vintage blackface’.
@Alan McDonald called it right. This isn't a true Blackface. It's merely a later release with a black face plate and a different font for "Bassman". It also uses the ultralinear transformer, which are somewhere between very costly to impossible to mod, from what I understand.
I have a 1968 Silver Face and a 1965 Black Face. There is also a early 60's Brown face which is right after the Holy Grail 1959 Bassman. All these amps are super special and price wise (except for the 59 Bassman) they are still very reasonable in cost to own. My goal is to pick up the Brown-face at some point and my collection will be done. For classic rock they can do the job quite well. My Wet Dry Wet rig is the 2 Bassman's I own in stereo with my Marshall JCM2000 dry in the middle. Wow!! what a sound :) A great speaker choice for this amp in a 12" would be the JBL D131, Jensen Vintage C12N or I use in a lot of my fender's the Neo Cream back's. I own all these speakers and they sound great with these old amps. If you have a 2x12 cab one of my favorite setups is the Jensen C12N with a Green back both are 8ohm speakers wired to be Parallel 4ohm (which is a match for these old Fenders) This cab is great for RocknROLL! As always thanks for the great videos!
Got a 64' Bassman. Sounds great!
Sounds great
The 15" cabs were for bass guitars, and apparently weren't suited to guitar frequencies. Guitar players would normally pair them with a 2x12 Showman cab.
Did I hear them right when they said the Fender bassman cabinet we just heard had Peavey Black Widow speakers in it ? I know they said they don't care for the Black Widows, but it sounded pretty nice to my ears.
I had one. Flipped upside down painted black face with tan silvertone record player cloth and mxr knobs it was stolen i had it teched new tubed and about 3 hours on it. Wgc westinghouse 6l6's tech said it was the loudest in town on the scope he ever saw in 35 years
You should actually get the 1x15 speaker srv used the jbl or the EV speaker and keep it the 15in speakers have a very unique fat sound and also sound phenomenal clean and cranked
Jensen C15N or P15N would be cool for the cab - especially for bass! That amp sounds excellent cranked!
Firstly… Paul! Did you fly over to James studio? I know it’s too far to drive 🤣 when I was a kid I owned a 68 or 69 Bassman and as a dumb kid never really thought about making it a guitar amp. Of course I had a Princeton to fool around with. Live and learn
I believe certain Marshall heads were copies of the earlier bassman circuits
ehh the thumbnail for the video shows a mid 60's bassman. I would've rather you reviewed what was depicted in the thumbnail
Me too !
Your wrong about models and additions. Stevie loved the original Blackface 50 watt Bassman heads but his favorite Bassman was the 1959 4X10 Tweed Bassman. Blackface went from late 63’ to early 68’ when the Silverface Bassman’s came out.
I use with my tele mim..superb amp soundbody it out!..love this amp..
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Another great vid guys. Very interesting.
the first time I hear and realize the Bassman ( and the era Fender amps) attraction: Dynamics WITH the players tweaking vol n tone..., and with a Tele thanks: from chirpy acoustic to Marshally bass...: I am a dynamic player, but REALLY not used to fiddle with my gtr VOL nor Treb, nor prone to interest me in the tube amps complicated hi maintens...! BUTT really Thanks for this intimate sound check! My ZOOM G2s fav now is Fender Clean, which is: Twin Reverb 65´, the year I was born : Ill go test it right away: in the TH-cam! ha n ha! Cheers Kimmo
Brilliant!!! Thanks guys!!
I have an export bassman silver face '69 (it doesn't have a master volume), and it's the most vintage thing I own, great marshall clean tones and takes pedals amazingly well. It's more Marshall than Fender sounding but that's why I like it
What do use for a cabinet with t ?
@@benallmark9671I have a few small 1 12 cabinets, a Marshall, a Fender Bassbreaker, a Vox 1 10, a homemade one, i use it with any of them, I don't have the matching one
@@user-jt1ug2eu4w which of the bunch would you recommend the most ?
@@benallmark9671 i like them all, i think i prefer a closed back kind of cabinet, like the Bassbreaker. I have heard though that this amp should run through a 4ohm cabinet and you can't find cabinets like this so easy...
@@user-jt1ug2eu4w ya eh. Great point and thanks bringing it up. I have a silver face 65 and no cabinet yet , this is why I’m asking all these questions.
These Bassmans have circuitry not much different from the Tweed Bassmans. There is not a tube rectifier and a few other parts changed, but the circuitry is very similar, and the transformers are hefty.
They sound great.
Great tone. I wonder if you can approximate that sound on a Katana 100 mk ll ? That would be a great video. Cheers 😊
Lol
Works good on a Clavinet also!
Bright switch works best with low volume. The more you turn it up the weaker bright cap effect is.
Semi-unrelated, but I picked up a 1966 Twin Reverb, and it’s loaded with the EV coffee can SRO 12s. Just wondering if you guys have any experience with those, because there was a matching 66 twin right next to mine with other EV drivers in it, and it was no contest. I had to have it.
Have a look at the schematic of a 60s era Bassman. Then look at a schematic of a Marshall JTM45...
Is he using effects ahead of the amp
Jensen would sound more authentic potentially but the Black Widows are great speakers for a different application.
And the plexi was identical to a bassman with different tubes el34 instead of 6l6 but yeah we wouldn't have Marshall without bassman i actually prefer the 59 tweed-era bassman there's a video on TH-cam a guy has an original 59 tweed bassman 4x10 and hes going through a bunch of hendrix tunes there's like 4 parts totally amazing literally the best tone i have ever heard
So cool and super helpful, Ty! What cab do you recommend for a Super Bassman used with a guitar?
We used a Marshall 4x12 as well as a UA OX box.
Did I miss hte cab yo are using here? Is it the 4/12 Marshall, What speakers?
I traded Stevie a Blackface piggy bank Bassman setup for a 68’ Blonde Tele. Still have pictures of the amp and the Tele. Miss all of them but miss Stevie more
That’s incredible. Did the bassman have the 15” EV speakers in it already or did he do that? I have so many questions
@@igorbogdanoff6751 : No the entire EV speaker thing came from Cesar Diaz. The only amps that retained the JBL’s were 2 of the 3 15 inch Vibroverbs. When I traded him the amp it still had the original Oxford speakers in it. It did have D-120F JBL’s because I was a Duane Allman fanatic and I was close friend’s with Gregg. I didn’t know Duane due to the fact that I was 4 years old when he passed away. I had one of Duane’s rigs partially and that went back to Gregg through John who was the head roadie at the time. Long story on that gear it was during the Gregg Allman Band days before the ABB reunited. By the way it’s the EV Force series mostly that Cesar installed in Stevie’s amps which is a completely different sound & feel than an EVM12-L. It’s softer and gives a little bit not as stiff or as bright sounding so it was perfect for the Fender amps Stevie loved because most of the amps he used were 40 watts at best.
@@igorbogdanoff6751 : One of my favorite setups I ever owned came from Huey Thompson from the Outlaws. It was a blonde Fender Bassman 2x12 setup early with the Presence control on it. It had 2 Guass speakers in it and man!!! That amp sounded Tits!!!!!! $400 for the setup in 1988. The year I left Kramer between that and BC Rich I just had an incredible time! I wasn’t even 25 yet and worked with so many great musicians. I was working with Ken Fischer from Train Wreck and Dennis Kager from Sundown amps. Actually leaning more not so much working. The American Showster guitars were being built is my mother’s basement in New Jersey. Kenny’s days were actually early on for me some of the first because I hadn’t attended luthier school yet in Arizona where I was roommates with Joe Naylor who owns and operates Reverend Guitars. Another great guy and innovative person Joe is.
What speakers and microphones did you play / record this bassman through? It sounds great!
We were using an ua ox with a 4x 12 speaker
Can it be connected to 4ohms load on the transformer or just a 8ohm load with the head in the video please
were you guys sitting in front of a 4x12 with nothing between amp and box? ie, attenuator? i watched a video today where a bloke patched between the two channels and turned the bass to zero, treble to full, and exact opposite on other channel, and it sounded massive. i think deluxe reverb combo with isolated cab in garage mic'd. your video, i would have liked to hear it all maxed out, but bass at zero. try that, as the video i mentioned did that and the amp was full on rock tones.
5 grand on a bassman? Did Brian setzer deliver it on a harley? 😂It sounds great, I've bought a fender pa100 and this is kind of what I hoped for
A blackface bassman showed up in my area for sale so I had to grab it. AB165 - dated Febuary 1966
SRV was decades late to this conversation
it doesn’t really matter when he joined the conversation. He ran in circles around anybody else that used one and still does even being dead for 35 years.
Not recommending this video because the thumbnail shows a 60's blackface Bassman and the amp in the video is not that.
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what?, what ?
What's wrong with a CLEAN sound? every guitar player I've seen always has some distortion in their so-called clean sound.