The Amp Garage

Don't forget the old tweed 5E3 Deluxe. Tons of hit rock records have been recorded using that baby. I have a 6G6-b Bassman, a 5E3 Deluxe and a black face 65 Deluxe - all of them are great in their own way. Three different types of distortion but all have been used on plenty of great recordings. The ...

ToneMerc wrote:If I was going to gut and modify a Bassman to any particular Fender circuit, it would be a 6G6B and never look back. That circuit is a sleeper.

TM

That's what I did to my 67 Silver face Bassman and I absolutely love it.
See thread below.
http://ampgarage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20817

Both clips sound good really need to get serious about a bassman build... TM after hearing that clip and seeing your builds I think I' moving in the 6G6B direction. Did you get the brown faceplate or have it made? Darin Darin, I built those when Marsh was selling the brown repro faceplates They are...

Ran across this on Youtube, who needs a Marshall. I actually think is a transitional 6G6B circuit and not a AA165 w/pres. Kind of hard to believe this is the normal channel and not the cascaded bass channel though. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTfwHtgWQXo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxTfwHtgWQXo TM[/...

M Fowler wrote:Sorry, I pay the same price for tolexed complete cabs.

Mark

Just saw this old thread and was wondering if you have a contact number, email address since I've been looking for a fender 2 - 12 guitar cabinet to go along with my 6G6-B Bassman head.

Well I Did IT! It turned out great! I bought the parts I needed for the conversion from Marsh amps and I used parts from the Silver face Bassman including the transformers and the amp sounds fantastic. I have owned and still own some really nice amps including 1965 Vox AC 30, Vox AC 15, Fender Delux...

I would like to add a bias pot to the original 6G6-B Bassman circuit. Can anyone provide a diagram on how to wire the pot into the circuit. I have a spare 10K biasing pot from a 67 silverface AB 165 amp. P.S. It was suggested that I could use the Bassman AA864 diagram layout to add the bias control ...

Take a look at both layouts and schematics and mod away. :D My problem is that I have seen 6 or more 6G6 schematics and don't know which one is the best to use. I owned a blonde Tremolux with 6l6s in it and the presence control and I loved the way it sounded (until the output transformer blew). I w...

Structo wrote:This belongs in the Fender forum

Wow - I thought you meant the forum over at Fender.com.
I didn't realize there was one right here.
Maybe now someone will see this and help me out.
Thanks.

Have you the actual SF Bassman? Modding them is pie as they are laid out clearly and have no extras like reverb and tremolo. I modded the power amp of my 864 to 6G6 specs. I then used the bright switch as a presence for both channels (moving the switch to "On" switched in a .1UF cap with a 4.7K res...

Any more suggestions on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Is this doable?
Anyone out there that's done this mod? - late 60s Bassman to mid 60's Bassman Head.
Is there a kit available?

azatplayer wrote:I loved that show too, never did like much he did after it tho.

Blue Bloods is a pretty good show.

I have a 1965 Grey Panel Vox AC 30. I replaced the original Egen 500K log volume pot on the top boost channel with a new CTS 500K log pot and now the taper feels wrong. Instead of a gradual smooth volume build the amp gets loud too fast. On my meter the Egen pot is 491 K - the CTS is 460K. Are those...

I've played thousands of gigs since the 1970s & done thousands of recording sessions- most of my amps have had tube rectifiers - maybe I've been lucky but I've never had one fail. My biggest tube problems have been power tubes - that said they haven't been too big of a problem. I have tried SS recti...