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The Fender Super Bassman 300 thread
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Which seems to work just fine & dandy on the Super Bassman.
I don't take much notice of it and I've never tried adjusting it to run hotter or colder. .... But. .. Yep it's another feature.
No. Input 2 is padded some iirc. . I never use it unless I'm using both my bass and my keyboard bass.
They both go to either ch1 or ch2 depending on which you've got the amp switched to
They both go to either ch1 or ch2 depending on which you've got the amp switched to
Super Bassman arrived today. Had the NV610 for a few weeks and have been waiting to pair it with the SB.
Have only had a brief chance to try it out tonight but some of my initial impressions are ;
- The clean channel is great. Great tone with my active PJ and J basses. This is great because I was a little worried it was going to be more suited to a passive P and most of the clips online are of the distortion channel.
- It sounds good at modest volume. Wasn't sure how it would go 'not cranked' and I'm glad to say it still sounds very good at lower levels. Even with the 6x10.
- The bias adjustment feature is a cool feature and makes a subtle but noticeable difference to the tone. Surprisingly, and counter to what I was expecting, I found myself preferring the cooler biasing (-2, -3 steps). To me it seems to sound tighter and less wooly in the low bass frequencies. Kind of cool if that setting extends tube life as well.
My only criticisms so far is that the fan seems a bit noisier than I would like (would only be an issue for recording with a mic) and the tolex glued joints do seem a little bit less than optimum quality. Oh and I received the 100T manual and spec card with it for some reason. Might have been packed in the the factory on a Friday afternoon!
Have only had a brief chance to try it out tonight but some of my initial impressions are ;
- The clean channel is great. Great tone with my active PJ and J basses. This is great because I was a little worried it was going to be more suited to a passive P and most of the clips online are of the distortion channel.
- It sounds good at modest volume. Wasn't sure how it would go 'not cranked' and I'm glad to say it still sounds very good at lower levels. Even with the 6x10.
- The bias adjustment feature is a cool feature and makes a subtle but noticeable difference to the tone. Surprisingly, and counter to what I was expecting, I found myself preferring the cooler biasing (-2, -3 steps). To me it seems to sound tighter and less wooly in the low bass frequencies. Kind of cool if that setting extends tube life as well.
My only criticisms so far is that the fan seems a bit noisier than I would like (would only be an issue for recording with a mic) and the tolex glued joints do seem a little bit less than optimum quality. Oh and I received the 100T manual and spec card with it for some reason. Might have been packed in the the factory on a Friday afternoon!
As a few others have said, I too have had the same thing going on with the glued tolex joints on the top of the amp. Mine totally came free. I tried some contact glue with not so good results. Then I put a very small amount of gorilla glue , applied with a small brush making sure to cover all the exposed undersides of the tolex. (This glue will foam up like a bass&!?/ if you use too much, so be careful and use sparingly) . Let it sit with some weight on it overnight. I'm sure it will hold now forever!
Hey, when you all turn your amp on with standby off, what do your bias LEDs do? Yesterday I watched them and they stayed in the "moving from left to right" configuration for a long time, at least 6 or 7 minutes. I went ahead and turned standby on, and then all the lights flashed together for a minute before they went all on.
Is this normal? It's scary enough learning how to turn a tube amp on and off, the biasing stuff adds another layer of mystery.
Is this normal? It's scary enough learning how to turn a tube amp on and off, the biasing stuff adds another layer of mystery.
I go ahead and turn the amp power on keeping it in standby mode, after a few minutes I turn the standby off and start playing. When I'm done, I put the amp back in standby and power it down. It takes a few minutes for the auto bias to go through its "routine" , but I think as long as you have all green, I would say its good to go.
Thats TOTALLY normal. They will keep moving while in standby. once you take it out of standby is when the auto bias circuit starts to actually work and do its job. it usually takes about 30 seconds. it's best to let it do that without any signal being played into the amp for the truest balancing of the bias. then play like crazy. Rinse. Repeat.
i posted this in the 100T thread but ill post it here too since the auto bias is on both amps.
is this normal? i have a brand new 100t, literally one week old. i was playing awhile today on the 25 watt setting and all the lights were green. i left the room for a half hour without putting the amp on standby, but the bass was muted and there was no sound being played. when i cam back one was orange and one was red. i shut the amp off, waited about a minute and turned it back on. after turning on the standby switch the amp did the blinking light thing and all tubes were green again. i dont know how long that would have lasted because i had to leave.
is this normal? i have a brand new 100t, literally one week old. i was playing awhile today on the 25 watt setting and all the lights were green. i left the room for a half hour without putting the amp on standby, but the bass was muted and there was no sound being played. when i cam back one was orange and one was red. i shut the amp off, waited about a minute and turned it back on. after turning on the standby switch the amp did the blinking light thing and all tubes were green again. i dont know how long that would have lasted because i had to leave.
Firstly. you should be aware that the autobias works slightly differently in the SB3oo to the 100T. There have been decidedly fewer issues with the autobias in the SB300 than the 1ooT. The answer FreightTrain gave you in the 100T thread pretty well nails it, but if in doubt just take it back - the five year warranty is a pretty good deal and tubes will still be covered at this point.
Need some opinions please!
Last night at practice during our set my amp made a really weird sound like a cord being unplugged so of course I turned everything off and checked all connections and nothing was loose.
I then waited a few mins and fired it back up and it was fine for about 30 minutes. then during a song I heard a really loud squeal like a terribly loud mic feedback which I thought was coming from our PA system.
Unfortunately it was coming from my amp! I shut it down for the night after that.
I'm going to take it in to a tech but can anyone tell me what could cause that?
Last night at practice during our set my amp made a really weird sound like a cord being unplugged so of course I turned everything off and checked all connections and nothing was loose.
I then waited a few mins and fired it back up and it was fine for about 30 minutes. then during a song I heard a really loud squeal like a terribly loud mic feedback which I thought was coming from our PA system.
Unfortunately it was coming from my amp! I shut it down for the night after that.
I'm going to take it in to a tech but can anyone tell me what could cause that?
So I brought my amp to a tech this past Tuesday, came home with it today. The guy is personal friends with some people from Fender, happened to have them on the line yesterday, so he told them my situation. Turns out it was something to do with a component controlling the low-to-high voltage conversion in the amp? Something to that effect. Impossible to have been caused from user error, which is a relief. The techs all agreed it's one of the best sounding amps they've heard and that it absolutely replicates the "SVT" thing and more. Told me to never get rid of it!
Just playing low volume in my studio, I am blown away at how mean and aggressive a mellow clean tone can get just by digging in, even with flatwounds. I assume it's compression and distortion, although it still sounds clean. On my SS and hybrid amps I have to use eq to get aggression like that. Cool!
So in everybody's estimation, what are some lightish/smallish cabinets that can capture the vibe of a sealed 810? I know about the Berg NV610, but that's still pretty big. Anything else?
So in everybody's estimation, what are some lightish/smallish cabinets that can capture the vibe of a sealed 810? I know about the Berg NV610, but that's still pretty big. Anything else?
