50 watts. The tweed Bassman is more popular as a harp amp. There are tons of sound clips on YT............... Mike

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clips of bass players or guitar players?

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Try this one. Straight in , no pedals .......... Mike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N8wNmi9B40

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man tht sure sounds sweet.
ok is there a major difference over the blk face than the non-blk face?
is there a bassman out there that i should avoid? ive not see the one this guy has nor do i have any info on it.
i dont know if its a head or a combo or the time frame it was made. the info came from a friend at work as to it being for sale.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

12" JBL's sound great in Fender Bassman cabs also.

I have a 68 Bassman head with a 69 2-15 cab although the cab is great for bass it's not really suited for guitar but when I run the head through my 4-12 Marshall cab or my Leslie Model 16 with a JBL K-120 the sound is deadly ,absolutely sublime.The tone gets deliciously dirty when the little brute is cranked-very addictive.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

JBL's sound great, period......



(15-inch D130Fs in a '65 Dual Showman cab)

Arjay

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I used to have a much-maligned 1970's silverface, master volume Bassman Ten...it was a combo with 4x10 closed-back speaker cab.

Now, I know what you're saying, "That was from possibly the worst era of Fender tube amplifiers ever...", and that might possibly be true, but I loved that amp...it sounded great for guitar and harmonica, it did pretty well for a make-do PA system, and it was as durable as hardened steel...ironically, it wasn't a great bass amp, but it wasn't bad, either.

Many a gear snob was surprised by how good the amp sounded, especially after I had it re-tubed & re-capped. Conventional wisdom says "silverface + master volume=crud"...conventional wisdom is often wrong, and it was in this case as well.

Rich, thick tones that weren't woofy or muddy, spectacular top end, great headroom (if you dimed out the Master Volume) and killer overdriven tones (if you dimed out the slave volume and tweaked the Master to about two or three). Plus, I could out-LOUD anybody I needed to...LOL.

It was lost in the Great Guitar & Amp Collection Mortgage-Payment Massacre of '99; the only thing I don't miss about it was how much it weighed. Other than that, it was dang near perfect!

I agree about how great the old piggy-back blackface Bassman amps were, and I like the old tweed ones (reissues weren't bad, either), but this amp was a great "sleeper" that nobody seems to know about or care about...

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Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

I used a Bassman 50 and a 2 X 12 back in gigging days (1967 - 1976) and it was a very sweet combination for blues oriented rock and pop covers. Weak for anything resembling metal and in those pre-decent PA days, I often got lost in any kind of large room. But I loved it for the very warm and deep tones I got out of it.

I used no FX except a wah and a fuzz on a few tunes. The guitar was a cheap LP clone with "unknown brand" humbuckers of some kind and even that sounded great.

Sometimes, I even used it for bass ... in a adult soft jazz trio I was in. In a lounge, the rig was more than enough for backing a pianist and sax.

ok lets get it straight. what yrs do i need to aviod in the bassman?

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

I have a 2000 Bassman 400 combo amp that I play my guitar through. I use my Digitech RP-1 for effects. Together, they sound very good!

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I think this is too subjective to give a specific "don't buy an XYZABC Bassman amp"...

There were a dozen different models of "Bassman" amp (Bassman Amp, Bassman Ten, tweed Bassman combos, Bassman 50, Bassman TV, etc.)

Find out what sounds good to you and don't worry what anybody else thinks or says.

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Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

i agree with this statement.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Avoid the late 70's ultralinear high powered ones (Bassman 70, 100, and 135) unless you like that loud hi-fi sound. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bassman Every other era Bassman are good, they just have just different sounds as the circuit kept changing through the years. All that Fender offers now is the reissue of the narrow panel tweed era 5F6-A Basman. Even the reissues are good too. The only thing you need to consider is price, keeping in mind the original 50's tweed Bassmans are going for something like $4,000+ these days.

p.s. Guitarists have been playing through Bassmans for 58 years now. Strat, Tele, SG, 335, Les Paul, Jazzmaster, etc etc. No one really uses it as a stand alone bass amp since the 50's unless for smaller intimate gigs like philip602 above.
Here's a bunch of guitarists that are Bassman users from Fender's spec page of the Bassman LTD reisssue:
Buddy Guy
ARC Angels
Greg Koch
Gavin Rossdale
Gin Blossoms
The Gaslight Anthem
Raul Pacheco / Ozomatli
Eileen Rose and the Holy Wreck
Wolf Marshall
Carolina Liar
The Green Lady Killers
Mike Beliveau / The Crash Kings
Dead Confederate
Joe Trohman / Fall Out Boy & The Damned Things
Camera Can't Lie
Deer Tick
Colin James
The Maine / The Maine
This Century
Train
A Place To Bury Strangers
Joe Robinson
Spoon
Sweet Thing
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Buddy Guy
Neon Trees

There are millions of others. The question should be "who has not played through a Bassman with a Strat"?

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Not the same thing as we're talking about here. Those modern Fender bass amps called "Bassman xxx" only share the name Bassman with the
Bassmans we're talking about here (if that makes sense ). Your Bassman 400 has a circuit, speaker, and cab specially designed for bass guitar. Sure a guitar can be played through it, but it has no resemblance to any iteration of past Bassman revisions. The only current Fender amp that resembles the Bassman of yore is the '59 reissue LTD.

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