Recent content by Ray Latvala

The Fender Bassman 10 chassis and transformers are the same ones used in the Fender Super reverb..The schematic is so so and it blows power tubes(6L6's)'cause they run the plates at 480 volts(too high) but perfect for a super reverb with a 5U4 rectifier which lowers the voltage to about...

My first bass amp was a 1963 St. George combo. It had 6v6's and 12ax7's about 15 watts, 2 channels with volume and tone each and a 12" speaker. St. George amps then were built by former Fender employee I'm told..In 1965 I bought my Fender Jazz Bass which I still own and built the same amp for...