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2013 Ampeg V-4B 100W Reissue Pt2

#144
It had great smooth clean tone, but I'm more of a tube overdrive person. The tech said you could get some gnarly tone but I couldn't get it no matter how hard I tried. The 100t has the.overdrive and features I dig. Totally just personal preference and I'm sure the ampeg would suit some people great
 
#149
I am Soma said:
My friends owns a little tube amp company and he couldn't get anything either.
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I know you are telling the truth, of course, just odd. Man, it is easy to get it dirty from my perspective and haven't heard otherwise yet from anyone. But, I can't knock your experience not being there.
 
#151
Laurent said:
A very low gain tube in the preamp section perhaps?
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Would have to be. I don't have the reissue, I have an original non-MV, but you can't dial it above 11 without getting into distortion territory. It's not metal distortion type distortion, but it's real life tube amp dirt. I would think if you cranked the gain and controlled your volume with the master on a MV amp you should have plenty of gain unless you had a bad tube.

Interesting experience at least, glad you got an amp you enjoy though.
 
#152
Take an instrument cable and run it from the preamp out into the power amp in and see if does the same thing. If yes, plug the preamp out into the power amp in of another amp and test that.

If you don't have another power amp, run the preamp out into the input of another amp. Be careful with the volume levels. If the V4B's pre is working properly and you don't watch the volume levels, it will overpower the other amp's input and it will distort.

This will help you determine if the V4B's preamp is working properly.
 
#154
Mine gets pretty close to fuzz when you crank the power tubes hard. Not quite fuzz but very heavy distortion. And when you crank the gain, you can get a moderate amount of distortion.
 
#156
I think the v4b is a very clean tube amp. Doesn't do the fuzz box thing.
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This was very much my impression of the V4B. I loved the way it goes into a warm, gritty bloom rather than overdrive as such. My 100T goes into a much more obvious overdrive at a certain point, but in my limited play with the V4B it just became richer and fuller. Some may interpret this as a lack of overdrive since it is not overdrive/fuzz in the traditional sense, rather it seemed to be a very useable coloration of tone.
Re the negative review, the 100T had all sorts of problems with the auto-bias system, but it did not seem to affect sales and Fender seemed to deal with the issues quickly for customers. The reviewer should obviously have returned it for a warranty check on hum bias etc, then written the review if he still felt so inclined.
I still want a V4B, but am having difficulty selling my 100T at the moment. I figure having the V4B and the Super Bassman in the arsenal together should cover me for most tones :D.
 
#158
danis said:
Is there a problem if I wanted to connect one 8 ohm cabinet and one 4 ohm cabinet? Cause I checked the manual and says never to connect different impedance cabinets.
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IIRC That would give a total load of roughly 2.6 OHMS. If the head has a 2 OHM tap you would probably be OK. Can't say for sure though. Maybe somebody can chime in on that.
 

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