6G6-B Bassman On The Bench
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I appreciate the concern, fellas, but all is well. The parts arrived Thursday and I got everything in order. The controls function flawlessly and I didn't even bother with the cleaner. All the blue molds seem to be fine as well with regard to leakage. I also got the stapler out and fixed up the tolex a bit where needed. The amp sounds great through my 2x12 with EVs. A really fantastic sounding clean amp.
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Re: 6G6-B Bassman On The Bench
Out of interest has yours got a 12AX7 in the PI as original or has it been changed out for a 12AT7 like the later amps? Does change the character of the amp and 12AX7 in my mind does give you the perfect balance between Tweed overdrive and Blackface cleans. I also love with these amps that the normal channel tone control is the tapped pot type where the top end is a warmer Blackface tone and the bottom end rolls off the highs (sloped roll off rather than shelf) which is like a Tweed.
Re: 6G6-B Bassman On The Bench
My 64 is all original one owner before me, Blond with black face plate with fawn coloured front grill.
Geoff
Geoff
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This one had a 12AX7 and I replaced it with one of my oldies I have here. I realized when I played it that the treble pot was tapped and hadn't even looked at that part of the schem. I don't necessarily like those myself, but never the less, I really liked the clean sounds I heard from that amp and my EVs. Funny though, the owner is a bass player and uses it for that. He should be quite happy with it now.katopan wrote:Out of interest has yours got a 12AX7 in the PI as original or has it been changed out for a 12AT7 like the later amps? Does change the character of the amp and 12AX7 in my mind does give you the perfect balance between Tweed overdrive and Blackface cleans. I also love with these amps that the normal channel tone control is the tapped pot type where the top end is a warmer Blackface tone and the bottom end rolls off the highs (sloped roll off rather than shelf) which is like a Tweed.
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Is that still with white knobs?lovetone wrote:My 64 is all original one owner before me, Blond with black face plate with fawn coloured front grill.
Geoff
I'm lead to believe that all combinations appeared in that transition era. Blond cab with black faceplate is pretty rare I think.
Thanks!Blackburn wrote:This one had a 12AX7
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Yes it has white knobs it is the export model so also has the as input voltage selector on the inside with ¼" spade type tags.
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Cool! The one I worked on was an export (in Australia) and had the voltage selector tags as well.lovetone wrote:Yes it has white knobs it is the export model so also has the as input voltage selector on the inside with ¼" spade type tags.
Re: 6G6-B Bassman On The Bench
Its a great sounding amp, the only problem is the 2 x 12, (matching blond with original speakers) does have a lot of bass.
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Re: 6G6-B Bassman On The Bench
That is so ugly... Great to see you pulling it out of the depths of despair though. I feel compelled to donate to some underprivileged cause after seeing that.
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