Ampeg B-100r Rocket Aficionados

[Rob Martinez]

I just plugged my B-100r in today after sitting for a couple yrs..and it Sounds Sweet. I normally play thru a SWR SM-500 and a mesa deisel 2x10 which sounds amazing too but this just has that nice warm tone.
Obviously the SWR can do a lot more but for a combo amp this little Ampeg is great. I got this B-100r in 2000? i think back when they were still made in the USA

Agreed. Nice, warm tone. It doesn't do a lot, but what it does, it does amazingly well! Cheers to the Ampeg B100R!

 

[RC52]

+1 for the B100R! I run a Squier CV Jazz into it, and it absolutley rocks!!!

 

[stiles72]

End of year bump for the B-100R.

I've posted this pic in other threads, but not here. This is the B-100R running alongside my '63 B15NA when my oldies project opened for Gretchen Wilson last summer. I used a Fender tuner with stereo outs as a splitter, and ran one send to each amp. Even though I normally would have preferred to mic the B15 for FOH, we used the direct line out from the B-100R and it sounded great.

 

[lowend1]

I recently bought my second B100R on CL. Now the pair are stacked with a Radial Big Shot in front splitting the signal. Just plain wonderful.

 

[RC52]

The amazing thing is, This combo just does not fart out!!! Incredible for a small rig that sounds this good!!!!!

 

[stiles72]

This was posted in another thread- thought I would share.

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From a recording forum, posted by Ross Hogarth who engineered the new Van Halen album:

Wolfie's bass rig and sound covers the whole gamut. First the warmth comes from a Ampeg B100R this amp has a rear port, so I mic the front 15" with a fet 47 and stick a 421 out of phase in the rear port for a sub type quotient. He is also split into one of Ed's EVH heads and that goes out to an EVH 4 x 12
for serious grind. THis was micd with a 57 and a 421. Then also we were using a new Fender Super Bass heads into one of their new 8 x 10 cabs. For quite a while early on we were using an ampeg svt and bottom but it was actually bleeding some much into everything up at 5150 that we canned it early on. The new Fender has a blend between clean and dirty
I also had a radial DI but actually never used any DI sound in the mix. All the sound was from the cabinets
So if you look at the bass sound it is components
The Ampeg front 15 is tone the rear port is sub
The Fender is middle ground between clean and dirt
and the EVH is just total grind
and of course you have to make it all in phase by moving mic and placement
a challenge but it seemed to be exactly what Ed and Wolf were looking for in the end.

 

[MrLenny1]

I read that Mark Anthony recorded Chickenfoot CD's with an Ampeg combo
because it worked so well.

 

[mtlbasslad]

Hi all, just joined...

After my 2nd B15 was ripped off (along with my '65 Fender Super Reverb) I picked up a 'Made in USA' B100R.

I guess it was a question of 'retail therapy' - the B100R had that same blue sparkle tolex & Ampeg logo... but no tubes...

I was very pleasantly surprised by the tone, I'm going to agree with many here - Ampeg magic is going on here !

We (my lovely lady & I) have a lot of amps, Joanie plays her standup thru a GK MB150S - but in a healthy relationship it's good that we each have our own amp LOL.

Anybody have any ideas about replacing original speaker with new neo-types? (we are both in our 60's and prefer to save our backs)

Thanks

 

[mtlbasslad]

End of year bump for the B-100R.

I've posted this pic in other threads, but not here. This is the B-100R running alongside my '63 B15NA when my oldies project opened for Gretchen Wilson last summer. I used a Fender tuner with stereo outs as a splitter, and ran one send to each amp. Even though I normally would have preferred to mic the B15 for FOH, we used the direct line out from the B-100R and it sounded great.

Ahh Gretchen... my lady & I have just started playing "I'd Love to be your Last"

 

[HotelX]

Sometimes I miss my b100r when I remember the crazy jams where I could run it wide open and it would take everything I could throw at it.

I've moved on to lighter rigs but I would not hesitate to recommend this little powerhouse.

 

[KF2B]

Hey guys, time for a bump!

What kind of settings are you using on yours? Anxious to experiment if there is something that could be "labelled" as "THE setting" for the B-100R...



Thanks,

 

[lowend1]

I don't think that there is a bad setting for the B100R, and a lot depends on the bass itself. Generally speaking, the master is dimed and the gain is set at 12-1 o'clock. The tone stack is usually around noon (pretty sure this is flat). Since I'm running two amps stacked, the bottom one has the Ultra Low engaged and the top amp either has the Ultra High engaged or nothing - again, depending on which bass I'm using (ALL are passive, except for my ABGs). One other thing I will mention is the inclusion of a Yamaha NE-1 parametric EQ and Radial Big Shot in front of the amps. The NE-1 does the 70s V-Series midrange thing, while providing a master volume control for the amps as a pair. The Radial has two outputs, plus a isolation transformer (kills hum) and a phase reversal.

 

[Bobby Bass]

Just saw on YouTube.

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Not too much on live B100R Videos.

 

[Garden Variety]

Just saw on YouTube.

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Wassup with that mic placement?

 

[precijazz]

I bought a B100R off eBay a few weeks ago as an old school alternative to my Tecamp rig.

Last week I took it to practice with a seven piece funk band. More than enough power, and my Jazz bass never sounded that good with that band. I'm tempted to try it live, although we play without PA most of the time.

Great combo.

 

[Dark Horse]

I love those amps...I should get one. Great "old school" fat bass tone.

 

[whitespikebass]

Ive been playing one of these in my new band's drummer's rehearsal space. Sounds incredible at practice. I have never used one live, although I am skeptical that it could hold up. Still saving for a smaller amp (from my SVT) and am curious at 400 bones used if this thing packs enough power value ... plenty of tone value for sure.

 

[stiles72]

It all depends on the band, the venue, and the PA available. I have used mine with no reservations at a wide variety of clubs and stages, but mostly with a roots/classic rock group. The guitarist uses a tele through a Fender combo, so sonicly we aren't competing with each others frequencies. Don't think it would be my first choice with a five string and playing doom/death metal though.

 

[P Town]

I really like the B100R for guitar, as well as bass.

 

[Lync]

And I was "Back in the B100r, you don't know how lucky you are boy" last night. Here's what I came up with for a DI:

XLR male to 1/4" TRS (for the line out).

Like this:

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Works great and no noise/hum...soundguy said it is a very hot signal. You just have to watch your settings so they are not too extreme as the line out is post-eq. Killer tone though.