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I messed myself over (Warning: Long post with Ampeg content)

#81
davelowell2 said:
Do it! It's easy!

My NV425.
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Hey Dave, looks like someone relocated your standby to the front like my 72 was. My standby's back on the rear now and I gotta remember to track down a stainless plug for the hole someone drilled... :bawl:

I'd bought a Fliptop blueline faceplate only to discovered they're not etched like the originals. We also discovered it was incorrectly labeled just like the 73-75 style (just painted blue instead of black) so I decided to return it.

For anyone interested, Bruce told me he's planning to have a new batch of corectly etched/labeled blueline face plates made up within a year or so...
 
#85
im tired of people bitching about the weight of svt amps...i have been hauling around an svt for 12 yrs now...ok so its heavy...who cares...your tone is everything it says more than your actual playing does...and we all know that nothing...comes close to a true svt rig...shove your markbass italian POS where the sun doesnt shine and grow some nuts!
 
#88
I'm a few days from picking up a 69 SVT. Original head and cab. the owner has both cabs but is keeping the better looking one. He won't be swayed for love or money. The head is being redone as we speak. It was great to read Jimmy's post, as this is right where I'm gonna be in about a week. I'm currently running a B2R with a 2x10. Gig ends and I'm warming the van up and looking for the money man before the gtr player unplugs,or the drummer gets his cases together. The big boy is mechanically excellent, but like Jim's it's on the bad side of scruffy. This works well with transporting it. If it was cosmetically mint? I'd have to leave it home as it's gonna be bumped and ground around. As far as moving it? I had one with both cabs once. Suffice it to say I had a few friends who saw every show provided they could lift and carry,worked out for me inspite of my being in my late 20's and fit enough to do it m'self. There's some great courses on physics available or get a trainer, remember it's all in the Leverage. Once again it's the god amp. Did my heart good to see it's on the rise again! there wasn't an amp like it before it and there hasn't been one to beat it at it's game since. Great post Jimmy.
 
#89
Since this is about vintage SVT rigs, I feel compelled to show mine! :smug:



1973 head and cab. I have decided (with Jimmy's inspiration) to use this rig exclusively every time the band plays!

I am now a one amp, one cab, one bass guy! :eek:

The bass is an 08 P sunburst/rosewood with a 75 pickup and pots.

So P > SVT > straightback 8x10 :bassist:

I'll keep a little BA115 for living room jams.
 
#91
Lovin' the vintage Ampeg as usual, Denton! It's funny...there's about a 1-second period right before I pick it up where I'm hating life, but once I get into picking it up, it's not so bad. I've done way worse for less money, I'll tell you that.
 
#94
svtscruggs said:
im tired of people bitching about the weight of svt amps...i have been hauling around an svt for 12 yrs now...ok so its heavy...who cares...your tone is everything it says more than your actual playing does...and we all know that nothing...comes close to a true svt rig...shove your markbass italian POS where the sun doesnt shine and grow some nuts!
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ROTFLMAO

Now THAT'S a bassplayer!!!:eek::eek::eek:

Ain't afraid to muscle that rig around and got the balls to do it!

I salute you;)
 
#96
Letter to Jimmy:
Dear Jimmy,
Thank you for introducing me to Markbass. Thank you for destroying my satisfaction with my Mesa 400+/ Bergantino rig. Thank you for taking the satisfied smirk off my face. Thank you for introducing this thread which has reminded me what my old SVT sounded like. I have now become obsessed with trying to find a USA SVT to add to the arsenal. Perhaps now you could discover a treasure trove of NOS SVTs and let me know about it first.
Letter to self:
Must stop reading this thread.
 
#97
svtscruggs said:
im tired of people bitching about the weight of svt amps...i have been hauling around an svt for 12 yrs now...ok so its heavy...who cares...your tone is everything it says more than your actual playing does...and we all know that nothing...comes close to a true svt rig...shove your markbass italian POS where the sun doesnt shine and grow some nuts!
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+10000
If I would have said that I'm sure I would have gotten banned again. Thanks.
 
#99
All this SVT talk has started to make me itch. My V4 handles all my gigs very nicely, no complaints what so ever, but I still keep seeing vintage blue lines dancing around my head. So I went and checked one out yesterday, at this little pawn shop/vintage guitar store in Providence. I knew going into it that they charge collectors prices on everything, so the amp was probably going to be out of my price range (that and I won't really be buying one until the fall anyways) but why not go try it out right?

It was a closet classic. Seriously. One owner, sold it to the pawn shop recently. Patent pending chasis. Blue line. Attached speaker cable. A few scuffs in the front tolex were the only marks on it. The only mod that had been done was the a switch to 6550's at the Ampeg factory in Linden. Came stock with the original pre-amp tubes, and some vintage tung-sol power tubes.

The cab was a different story. I guess it came in separately, and had no tolex left, plus a few knicks in the grill. A little shabby looking, but overall in good sonic condition.

Their price? $3850.

A little rich for my blood. But, by the time I'm ready to buy one, I'm sure there will be something good up on ebay. Just not anything as pristine as this thing was.
 
#100
Used to be many years ago that pawn shops did not know what they had and you could get some good buys. The net seems to have stopped that with all the easily available info. At least in America you can still walk into second hand shops and see an SVT.
 

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