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For sale Trinity Trip Top B15 clone with custom fliptop cab

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Kit-built head and custom cab, trade for your Mustang bass or...?
$1,500.00
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Oakland California, United States
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Begrudgingly putting my Trinity Trip Top amp on the trading block. I bought it for recording projects but there's a vintage B15 at the studio where I work, and all my home recordings are in the box, so this has become expendable.

From what I recall, this started out as a kit build by a local bassist and woodworker. He wanted the full Portaflex experience and set out to build a legit vintage-style cab. These are the results.

Trip-Top specs are available on the Trinity Amps site. Pricing things like this is tough since it's truly a 1-of-1 item, but a Trinity-built head is $2100 and unassembled kits are close to $900. Having a flip-top cab built would be an arm and a leg. I'm valuing this at $1800 $1500 in trade value, but that's just a jumping off point.

I'd prefer a local deal, as shipping would be prohibitively expensive. In terms of trade wants, I'm looking for Fender short scales, vintage Japanese 4-strings, maybe a Status or a low-end Alembic (4's only please). If there's not a trade match there, we can discuss other options. Come play it in my home studio in Oakland and see if it's for you.

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maxvockner

I love the way music can heal the soul
Jun 10, 2010
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Nome / Anchorage , AK
i have an identical rig from trinity but with their portaflex cab that i tolexed. great sounding bass rig. looks amazing as well. curious to how it compares to original. i have a jensen 100w 15" speaker in my cab. good luck with trade.
 
Jul 3, 2014
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What I like most about these is that people think that it's just a B15 clone. Here are some key differences:
  1. You can use either side independently or blend them
  2. One side has the Volume before the EQ and one side has it after for 2 distinct tones
  3. Each side has a "pull bright" on the volume, which adds top end similar to a modern amp
  4. With the flip of a switch, you can swap the bias type for even more tonal variety.
Even with the 2 band EQ, this amp is very tonally diverse.
 
Jul 3, 2014
3,505
6,519
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Earth
What I like most about these is that people think that it's just a B15 clone. Here are some key differences:
  1. You can use either side independently or blend them
  2. One side has the Volume before the EQ and one side has it after for 2 distinct tones
  3. Each side has a "pull bright" on the volume, which adds top end similar to a modern amp
  4. With the flip of a switch, you can swap the bias type for even more tonal variety.
Even with the 2 band EQ, this amp is very tonally diverse.
 
Jul 3, 2014
3,505
6,519
56
Earth
The Trip Top is designed to output approximately 30 watts in cathode bias mode and 40 watts in fixed bias mode using 6L6 power tubes. These two modes are switch selectable.

It has two channels each have Volume with a 'Pull Bright' switch, Treble and Bass controls. The first channel, NORMAL, from the B-15-NF, has the volume control section before the tone stack. The second channel, CASCADE, comes from the B-15-NC which has the volume control section after the tone controls. There is a third input that LINKS the two channels for additional grit and drive.

The power amp section has two switch selectable bias modes – fixed (B-15NF) and cathode (B-15NC).

The Output Transformer has multiple impedance secondaries which allow a choice of 4, 8 or 16 ohm speaker loads. The primary output impedance is 6800 ohms.

Fixed bias has a more forward, clear, present sound… Cathode bias gives it a saggier feel but adds this gorgeous rich high harmonic overtone to everything.
 

maxvockner

I love the way music can heal the soul
Jun 10, 2010
83
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Nome / Anchorage , AK
i cant believe this is still for sale. This is the tone! any one considering an original B15 would be better off with this bad boy. you got the sound and more options and the looks with modern wiring.
 

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