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

[JimmyM]

$3850, eh? Bad news for you, good news for me!

Tim1, sorry but I just had to talk about how much I missed my SVT while it was down. I still really dig the Markbass stuff and it will get used occasionally. And if I had a 400+ and a Berg, I certainly wouldn't feel the least bit inadequate. I almost feel inadequate because I don't have either. I refuse to try the NV610 because I know I will like it too much and it will cause many problems between me and my wife.

The grass is always greener, eh?

 

[coreyfyfe]

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.

The shop I went to is great. The owner was in some band in the 70's (can't remember which one), retired to Rhode Island, and started up this pawn business. They make enough money from the pawn business that they opened up the vintage guitar part of the business and they get in some really good stuff. I bought my fretless P there, for just a bit over market price, but it was worth it to me. They have some lower end random stuff that's been pawned, but for the most part they deal in vintage guitars and amps that they've bought on ebay or through other sources. They have every color of kustom tuck and roll head/cab you can imagine, and their prized possession is an original Fender Broadcaster (or it might be an Esquire). Like you said, because of the internet most shops know what they have and price appropriately, but this place can be a little above market on some things. Besides the SVT, they're selling an early 70's V4 with two matching 4x12's for $1667. But the reason the place is so great is that they're very open to letting people try out any of their stuff. They know that 90% of the people that walk in there aren't going to buy anything, but the owner wanted to have a place for people to be able to check out good vintage gear, and the guys running the place are pretty cool.

 

[JimmyM]

Sounds like he just wants an excuse to collect and show off vintage gear and doesn't really want to sell it. Not at those prices. Well, if his wife buys it, it's cool with me

 

[Tim1]

Thanks for that, Jimmy. It is not so much feeling inadequate, it is just that you have voiced what all of us who have owed an SVT before recognise -there are other great amps, but there is only one way to get THAT sound. Having spent the last few years in denial I am now looking out for one again.