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Why does everyone love AMPEG so much?

#81
I was a nonbeliever until I bought my SVT-II to replace a Kustom Groove Bass 1200HD that I kind of hated the tone of. Bought a Bass VT to try, it was good, but not good enough. Worked great as an overdrive option on the SVT-II though. :D

Anyways, sold it, regretted it, bought an SVT-CL, '67 B15-N, and I'm still lusting after the new PortaFlex line. I like the 15's but not the 10's not due to their size but due to matter of minor tonal, cosmetic, and spatial (inside storage) differences in the cabs. The 10's were darker with a steeper top end roll off with the tweeter defeated. It added click but not much else. Plus I'd love to sit my B15, SVT, or Sound City 120 on top of that stack and go to town. :)
 
#87
I'm 55 and my first real amp to gig with was an ampeg B55-b or something like it. Then I saw the V4B and then the SVT. it was son, father,grandaddy. I don't really know what the hype is because once I saw a dude killing it in a funk band with a big afro, a Jazz bass and a big ass acuostic rig with that funky blue color the ampeg seemd like my dad's amp. I immediately lost any hype I had about ampeg on that one high school night. I was forever changed. never owned an ampeg anything soon after that.
 
#88
I didn't read this entire thread, but I like where it's going.

Jimmy, is that what you are rocking now? What is that - four 10s, 500 watts, about 70 pounds all in?

If we are still talking about the OP at all, I didn't get the Ampeg tone until I recorded with one. It's still not my favorite sound to hear coming out from behind me, which, selfishly, determines the tone I gravitate toward. But when I heard my playing on tape, in a mix, coming out of an Ampeg, I was like, "Oh". A lot of that was recognition (since I'm guessing 90% of the bass I've heard on an album was coming through a 'Peg), but also it just sounded cool.

My recorded GK tone has some of what the Ampeg had (plus I prefer how it sounds by itself), but the Ampeg had more.

--Bomb :bassist:

p.s.
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#91
Alex1984 said:
SVT, scooped? WHAT!?
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Well, in my defense, I did say limited Ampeg experience (a BA-110 practice amp that has a contour switch which cuts mid frequencies, and a VT Bass)... and I did denounce and reject myself for that factually incorrect comment in the last page after it being brought to my attention.

What I was hearing/seeing was based on the VT settings for an SVT. I realize that that is not a completely accurate representation of the real thing (hence the denouncement and rejection of my own comment).

Apparently I wasn't the only misguided one on this assumption either:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/vt-bass-settings-svt-sound-621717/

Regardless I stand corrected, but I hold my opinion that the redheads are hot and Coors light can be a drinkable beer on a hot day.
 
#95
Call me a bass conformist, but I love Fender and I love Ampeg.

These two name combined are responsible for a very high percentage of live and studio performances recorded in the last 50 years or so.

To me it's all about that classic tone that I love so much. In a live and studio environment they get the job done.
 
#97
P-oddz said:
Well, in my defense, I did say limited Ampeg experience (a BA-110 practice amp that has a contour switch which cuts mid frequencies, and a VT Bass)... and I did denounce and reject myself for that factually incorrect comment in the last page after it being brought to my attention.

What I was hearing/seeing was based on the VT settings for an SVT. I realize that that is not a completely accurate representation of the real thing (hence the denouncement and rejection of my own comment).

Apparently I wasn't the only misguided one on this assumption either:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/vt-bass-settings-svt-sound-621717/

Regardless I stand corrected, but I hold my opinion that the redheads are hot and Coors light can be a drinkable beer on a hot day.
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Oops, took me a while to get to page 5, I was just shocked. If the tone's enough to make so many bassists justify lugging it day in and day out, I think that speaks volumes as to how sweet the tone is. I resisted buying an Ampeg for a long time, but the first time I played an SVT-II, my eyes were opened.
 
#100
JimmyM said:
I got your bandwagon thing. I request SVT's for my backline because it's the best amp on the market. All the amps I own are Ampegs because it's the brand that consistently gives me the best sound for what I do. Now pipe down and go do something useful ;)
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Although I dig SVTs, and consider them to have certainly earned their legendary status, they're hardly "the best amp on the market"...

BTW, did you get yours straightened out yet???



- georgestrings
 

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