Jess Oliver interview on bass player mag

[selloutrr]

http://bassplayer.com/article/the-ampeg ... 011/128073

[KT66]

Thanks for posting that, interesting stuff. Did I catch that right that they are shipping with NOS tubes ? I don't know why, but I like hearing those stories about how Everett Hull hated rock and roll haha. Nice to hear George M is keeping busy.

[selloutrr]

I'm not sure about the NOS tubes.

The new (50 produced) has the correct double baffle of the vintage B-15 opposed to the reissue which had a single baffle.

The new B-15 has the addition of a filter choke.

Ampeg gave the builder the ability to source / fabricate whatever he needed to make a true clone of the vintage B-15, But Jess said they used current production parts and captured the vintage tone. I'm not sure what all they used. But for $5k I'm not in a hurry to find out.

I thought the time line was the most interesting.

[Drumslinger]

Jess Oliver.....very nice man and VERY helpful. A friend of mine has 3 of his amps and one of them was working subpar. I conversed with Mr. Oliver through various e-mails on the B-120 in order to get the amp back up to normal. Very nice man. I believe the B-120 schematic is somewhere on my hard drive at home.