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Post Your 70's Ampeg SVT

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JagStang68

Feb 12, 2010
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Saint Paul MN
www.pairofsevens.net
#1
ill start it here is my blue line 1970
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JagStang68 said:
that is so beautiful!! it was really iron butterflys? where did you score that?
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yep, doug confirmed it through myspace last year. i found it in a music store in orlando in like 87 or 88, looking just like it does in that pic. had an 810 that looked even worse. i used it and dogged it for another few years until it broke down and i got lazy for 10 years and used hybrids, then thru tb i learned how rare it was and got a conscience and fixed it back up. now it's my #1 amp and i use it all the time.

and hey, nothing at all wrong with yours, dude!
 
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JimmyM said:
yep, doug confirmed it through myspace last year. i found it in a music store in orlando in like 87 or 88, looking just like it does in that pic. had an 810 that looked even worse. i used it and dogged it for another few years until it broke down and i got lazy for 10 years and used hybrids, then thru tb i learned how rare it was and got a conscience and fixed it back up. now it's my #1 amp and i use it all the time.

and hey, nothing at all wrong with yours, dude!
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id like to think mine is a 69 also ;) i just assume its a 1970
 
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does yours have a tube socket next to the power tubes? might be if it does, though i have heard that others with that socket dated theirs to 70. but i am not going to bother looking. i am just going to assume that doug ingle, who was a huge superstar in music in 1969, would have gotten one of the very first, and i'm not checking the date codes on the pots just to get bummed out ;)
 
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johnk_10 said:
Hey Jimmy, my keyboardist that took his place after he left IB, told that Doug always had three of them on hand.
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he apparently got newer ones as they came out too because he said he only used this one in 1970 on the metamorphosis tour. used it with a 412 cab. i was kind of surprised his rig was that small, quite honestly. i expected 2 heads and 2 810's at least.
 
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JimmyM said:
does yours have a tube socket next to the power tubes? might be if it does, though i have heard that others with that socket dated theirs to 70. but i am not going to bother looking. i am just going to assume that doug ingle, who was a huge superstar in music in 1969, would have gotten one of the very first, and i'm not checking the date codes on the pots just to get bummed out ;)
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heres the deal with mine i bought it about 3 months ago for 800. i noticed that one power tube was burning brighter so i found some 6146 nos 2 of the pots were broken. it has been in the shop for a month now and i have not gotten it back yet. so when i get it back i will look for the tube relay. the repair man did say the pots date anywhere from 68-70 btw what does the tube relay do?
sorry im new with the vintage ampegs
 
#12
the tube relay just keeps the amp in standby while it warms up. but they quit using it because if the relay went out, the whole amp went out, so almost all of them have had shorting plugs installed in their place.
 
#16
Not to hijack, but I made sort of a sandwich frame with some mesh metal type of stuff for rigidity and protection for speakers, then wrapped with cloth.
 

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