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07-09-2010, 07:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | | | Fender Showmans
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07-09-2010, 08:02 AM
| | | | That's a beautiful 'old school' collection there. I think I even see that JBL chrome dust cap peaking out from one of the cabs.
Beautiful collection. |
07-09-2010, 08:59 AM
|  | Hey, what does this knob do? | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: New Hampshire | | | Boy does that take me back.
How did those 1x15 cabs sound? Did they go low, and were they peaky in the mid-bass? I've never heard one. |
07-09-2010, 09:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | mmmm Showmen..... 
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Originally Posted by Calaverasgrande  It sounded like gods forming mountain ranges. | |
07-09-2010, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | | | The single Showman cab has always been my favourite. I have had this and the head since 1975.
The cab has an E140-8.
Does go super low, but has great low mids that cut through a band nicely.
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07-09-2010, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by audiorep2 The single Showman cab has always been my favourite. I have had this and the head since 1975.
The cab has an E140-8.
It is a quasi-ported box.
Does go super low, but has great low mids that cut through a band nicely. | NICE! I want one now....
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CLUBS Gallien-Krueger #722, Pedulla #113 Quote:
Originally Posted by Calaverasgrande It sounded like gods forming mountain ranges. | |
07-09-2010, 10:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by audiorep2 Sorry, but I must .......... | no need to apologize  . . . great pics! |
07-09-2010, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chicago area | | | I remember a sockhop at my Jr. High school in the late '60s. We had live bands in those days (mostly highschool kids having just put together their first band). The guitarist had a Dual Showman, with a Fuzzface and a Crybaby, and he could really play! They did Jumpin' Jack Flash and I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen or heard! I still think those are the finest looking amps ever, though I have never owned one. |
07-09-2010, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Columbine Valley, Colorado | | | I used Showman, and later a Dual Showman, back in the day. Both were loaded with JBL D140Fs. I loved those beasts.
What's in the larger cab?
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07-09-2010, 11:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | | Yo quiero. I don't care what people say. IMO vintage Fender tube heads are the best sounding bass amps out there. |
07-09-2010, 12:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Canada | | Very sweet amps... but blondes have more fun  |
07-09-2010, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by audiorep2 Sorry, but I must .......... | ...and you should. Beautiful collecton.
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07-09-2010, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | | | The large cab has D130s in it. However, I have a pair of E140s just hanging around......
But then I'd have to deal with the 200 odd screws holding the back on !! |
07-09-2010, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by cripula Very sweet amps... but blondes have more fun | imo the best bass amp (for sheer tone) that fender ever made. i have a bud who gigs with a Pair of those heads into two matching 2-15 cabs (D140's) when the mood strikes. the tone of the gods. please tell us more about that tone ring cab; sound/efficiency etc |
07-09-2010, 01:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scotia, NY | | Audiorep,
I hate you! 
Just kidding, nice basses & amps! I had a Showman with a single 15" tone ring cabinet years ago. I loved the head for bass, but the cabinet just didn't sound that great (to me...). It was incredible for guitar, but I generally used the head with a standard 2-15" Fender cab. |
07-09-2010, 02:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Southwest USA | | | Loved Showman's for years, started out with a SUNN 1200 which was powerful, but found out the preamp in the Showman was more musical. Had up to three (one blond, two blackface) at one time, all through JBL K140F loaded cabinets, kept one (two were stolen), and finally in the late 70's went the big power amp and Alembic F2B route. While being more powerful, didn't ever get back to that Showman crunch | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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