Greetings from the North,
I have a Bassman 412 pyramid cab (actually I had 2) since new from the early 1970's. I ran them with an early 1969 SVT head. Sold one of them and replaced it with an 18" reflex cabinet that I gave away. I kept the 412 and used it thru my straight ahead rock, funk/dance, punk, new wave, post punk, grunge, alter Native periods until now.
There were quite a few of these produced in the early 70's. A few are still used live but like most big ole cabs they're obsolete, heavy and languishing in dank basements, garages, storage lockers etc
I know the naysayers are wriggling in their seats beginning to scream blasphemy! It's the worst thing that came out of the 20 year Fender CBS time. Poor design, materials and construction yada yada yada. Mine, of course, was made with CBS Fender's finest selected tone wood & tone mdf
But.... Over this past winter I got bored and began to start assessing what cabs I really needed. The 412 was first up because I had replaced the tired Utah speakers with Jensen Mod 50 watters in an effort turn it into more of a Treble Bass/Guitar cab. The result was...awful. Started thinking about putting the Utahs back in. Then I started looking at the specs of the Eminence Basslite S2012 neo. I pulled the trigger on four of them and I am so glad that I did.
It's alive! It's alive! This thing is so bombastic I wished I had done this years ago. With the Fender Super Bassman powering it sounds phenomenal. The Eminence Basslite S2012s are 8 ohms so I wired them Parallel/Series for a final 8 ohm load. No need for tweeters or horns. If you do have one of these cabs I highly recommend refurbishing it and inserting these. You may seriously consider actually gigging it. The Eminence Basslites are indeed the solution.
Rezdog
I have a Bassman 412 pyramid cab (actually I had 2) since new from the early 1970's. I ran them with an early 1969 SVT head. Sold one of them and replaced it with an 18" reflex cabinet that I gave away. I kept the 412 and used it thru my straight ahead rock, funk/dance, punk, new wave, post punk, grunge, alter Native periods until now.
There were quite a few of these produced in the early 70's. A few are still used live but like most big ole cabs they're obsolete, heavy and languishing in dank basements, garages, storage lockers etc
I know the naysayers are wriggling in their seats beginning to scream blasphemy! It's the worst thing that came out of the 20 year Fender CBS time. Poor design, materials and construction yada yada yada. Mine, of course, was made with CBS Fender's finest selected tone wood & tone mdf
But.... Over this past winter I got bored and began to start assessing what cabs I really needed. The 412 was first up because I had replaced the tired Utah speakers with Jensen Mod 50 watters in an effort turn it into more of a Treble Bass/Guitar cab. The result was...awful. Started thinking about putting the Utahs back in. Then I started looking at the specs of the Eminence Basslite S2012 neo. I pulled the trigger on four of them and I am so glad that I did.
It's alive! It's alive! This thing is so bombastic I wished I had done this years ago. With the Fender Super Bassman powering it sounds phenomenal. The Eminence Basslite S2012s are 8 ohms so I wired them Parallel/Series for a final 8 ohm load. No need for tweeters or horns. If you do have one of these cabs I highly recommend refurbishing it and inserting these. You may seriously consider actually gigging it. The Eminence Basslites are indeed the solution.
Rezdog
