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Who here plays Fender amps?

#41
artdrtr said:
I have a Bassman 250/210. Love the sound. Had some issues with the input jack cutting in and out -- unscrewed the nut and did what is technically called "the jiggle", screwed back on the nut and its fine.
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That combo kills! I loved the ones I have played in shops. I still may go that route, or it's bigger brother the TB-600C. But, I am waiting on, well, one, the cash and two the new Peavey TNT 115 combo before I really get serious about a louder amp.....

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#42
All tube 300 Pro into a 410 Pro for me. Love the sound!

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#43
I have the one of the early versions of the Rumble 60 (before you could turn the red light off) and it is one of the best gear purchases I have ever made. It is a great little amp with plenty of power for low volume practices and small gigs. It has an effects loop, headphone out, mid scoop button, and a 1/4 out (not xlr). I was not sure how I would like the 12" speaker, but it is great. It handles everything great and when you dig in it breaks up well. I generally run mine with the bass and treble at about 9 0'clock and the mid-scoop button engaged. I also use a Behringer BDI 21 on the SVT setting. All in all, a great little amp.
 
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I have different cabs now, but this is the most impressive picture. It's a '71 or so. At the time it was powering 2 Peavey 1820s (2X10, 1X18) and 2 Bergantino 15" subs. I had to get rid of the 1820s, the amp was too much for the 18s in them.

Nothing they make now impresses me, but that is true of most every amp company.
 
#45
I had a Fender Studio Bass, amazing amp, maybe one of the the best sounding bass amp I've played through, especially on low volumes. Sold it recently since it's a beast to move around and I got an amazing deal on an Orange set up which I love the sound of as well. I've owned a lot of amps and that Fender was definitely something special.
 
#46
I really love my 1x15 Rumble 100. A nice fat tone to my ears and more than loud enough power for most occasions.
The reviews here at TB seem to be love or hate. For the $200 I spent on mine I am defiantly in the love column.
 
#49
billfitzmaurice said:
I never saw an Ampeg until '66, that being my friend Tom Hamilton's. Yes, that Tom Hamilton.
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The baseball player? The real estate agent? My neighbor at my old apartment complex in 1988?

Or maybe the Tom Hamilton that uses this now:

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Looks like he didn't learn a thing from you, bro ;) OTOH, since only the middle 810 part is being used (powered by an SVT 5 Pro, and not the B-15R heads you see), maybe he did what I did and learned from you to a point :bassist:
 
#50
Fender tube amps are anything but vanilla Great tube amp sound especially with their aquisition of Sunn And the fender bassman 300 Pro . Not many heads with tube compression out there . Fender has a reputation for crappy Cabs and mostly underpowered Heads for bass. They were underpowered but sounded great when used within their design limits.
 
#54
Back in the early 90's I had a BXR-300 combo. For what I was doing at the time, it was a great amp and I liked what I could get out of it.

When that band broke up, I knew I would be out of bands for a few years, so I went ahead and sold it due to lack of space in my apartment. Years later, I was wishing that I had the room to keep it, because I was never happy with the Ampeg BA-115 that I acquired after that...

...But that purchase of the BA-115 (and the resulting dissatisfaction) helped send me down the Genz Benz route. My current setup blows away anything else I've ever had -- but I still look back at the BXR-300C with affection.
 
#55
This thread has covered a lot of cool vintage stuff, which I remember seeing on many a stage, but I just wanted to chime in on one combo amp that I owned until just recently that I really liked. The Bassman 150 combo is a terrific bass amplifier. It is lightweight at only 39 lbs. had parametric mids on the EQ, aux-in, compression, DI out, and 150 watts of solid state power. It has a deep and pillowy kind of sound that is unexpected in a small box.

I sold mine because I got a lightweight head and that rendered the Bassman redundant as my "throw in the car for practice" amp.

I quite liked it.
 
#57
JimmyM said:
For a long time, Fender bass amps were crap. Not so much the amps, but the cabs. They were great for guitar, but Ampeg's bass amps and cabs blew them away, so they pretty much let Ampeg win unchallenged for decades. But in the last 10-15 years, Fender has really gotten their bass amp act together. Trouble is, they have a stigma from the old days.
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+1

The old tube heads & amps are great for guitar (I'm thinking of the bassmans); but a little farty at higher volumes for bass. I have a '72ish Fender Bassman 10 (a 4x10 50w combo amp) that's great with a tele going through it, but not so good for bass. It's kinda like a super-reverb without the reverb (aka 'poor mans uper reverb', haha)...
 
#58
Mastermold said:
That would have been my guess. When they were advertising their new pro series stuff all over the GC and MF ads I wondered if people would play them more, but no one really seems to care.

I wonder too if the absence of a micro amp has something to do with it, as those are so popular of late.
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I also own an old 70's fender musicmaster bass amp (a 12 watt tube combo amp with a special design 12" speaker) that sounds great for bass or guitar; if you want a small bass amp with lots of tone & volume (for it's size) pick one of these up...

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