Post Your 70's Ampeg SVT

[JagStang68]

ill start it here is my blue line 1970

[JimmyM]

sorry, i can't play. mine's a 69.

oh, what the hey...



i fixed it up quite a bit since this pic, though.

[JagStang68]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

sorry, i can't play. mine's a 69.

oh, what the hey...



i fixed it up quite a bit since this pic, though.

that is so beautiful!! it was really iron butterflys? where did you score that?

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by JagStang68

that is so beautiful!! it was really iron butterflys? where did you score that?

yep, doug confirmed it through myspace last year. i found it in a music store in orlando in like 87 or 88, looking just like it does in that pic. had an 810 that looked even worse. i used it and dogged it for another few years until it broke down and i got lazy for 10 years and used hybrids, then thru tb i learned how rare it was and got a conscience and fixed it back up. now it's my #1 amp and i use it all the time.

and hey, nothing at all wrong with yours, dude!

[johnk_10]

only one of mine was made in the 70's (top: '07 VR, middle:'69, bottom: '75):

[JagStang68]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

yep, doug confirmed it through myspace last year. i found it in a music store in orlando in like 87 or 88, looking just like it does in that pic. had an 810 that looked even worse. i used it and dogged it for another few years until it broke down and i got lazy for 10 years and used hybrids, then thru tb i learned how rare it was and got a conscience and fixed it back up. now it's my #1 amp and i use it all the time.

and hey, nothing at all wrong with yours, dude!

id like to think mine is a 69 also i just assume its a 1970

[JagStang68]

Originally Posted by johnk_10

only one of mine was made in the 70's (top: '07 VR, middle:'69, bottom: '75):

im diggin the bottom one who owned ampeg at that time?

[JimmyM]

does yours have a tube socket next to the power tubes? might be if it does, though i have heard that others with that socket dated theirs to 70. but i am not going to bother looking. i am just going to assume that doug ingle, who was a huge superstar in music in 1969, would have gotten one of the very first, and i'm not checking the date codes on the pots just to get bummed out

[johnk_10]

Hey Jimmy, my keyboardist that took his place after he left IB, told that Doug always had three of them on hand.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by johnk_10

Hey Jimmy, my keyboardist that took his place after he left IB, told that Doug always had three of them on hand.

he apparently got newer ones as they came out too because he said he only used this one in 1970 on the metamorphosis tour. used it with a 412 cab. i was kind of surprised his rig was that small, quite honestly. i expected 2 heads and 2 810's at least.

[JagStang68]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

does yours have a tube socket next to the power tubes? might be if it does, though i have heard that others with that socket dated theirs to 70. but i am not going to bother looking. i am just going to assume that doug ingle, who was a huge superstar in music in 1969, would have gotten one of the very first, and i'm not checking the date codes on the pots just to get bummed out

heres the deal with mine i bought it about 3 months ago for 800. i noticed that one power tube was burning brighter so i found some 6146 nos 2 of the pots were broken. it has been in the shop for a month now and i have not gotten it back yet. so when i get it back i will look for the tube relay. the repair man did say the pots date anywhere from 68-70 btw what does the tube relay do?
sorry im new with the vintage ampegs

[JimmyM]

the tube relay just keeps the amp in standby while it warms up. but they quit using it because if the relay went out, the whole amp went out, so almost all of them have had shorting plugs installed in their place.

[demon666]

Here are mine







Here is a shot of the "blueline" before it got it's blue checkered suit


I haven't bothered to try and date them yet. Maybe I'll get around to it soon.

[davelowell2]

Here's my early 70's and Berg NV 425 with new cloth.

[Groover]

^ Cool idea. Do you have braces to hold cloth across?

Edit:

Originally Posted by davelowell2

Not to hijack...

Ooops, you are correct.... That NV cab with cover really makes that 70's SVT really stand out!

[davelowell2]

Not to hijack, but I made sort of a sandwich frame with some mesh metal type of stuff for rigidity and protection for speakers, then wrapped with cloth.

[Seans]

Here's mine, Dec 70 SVT, all original and still with original valves, Tungsol 6550's and Mullards/GE's etc.

[Funkster]

74 on top of the Berg NV610 and a 69 head and cab.

[JimmyM]

i thought the berg was a pretty big cab, but it looks pretty puny next to the 810. bet it doesn't sound puny, though!

[blockinlay]

73 head and friends. Not sure the year of the cab, but 70's.