Shop for the fender vintage reissue 59 bassman ltd 4x10 guitar combo and. First, i prefer a small footprint, hopefully not significantly larger than my bandmaster 25w x 10d x d. Fender literally wrote the book on electric basses, laying the foundation for musical innovation and evolution. Mods for fender blonde, blackface, and silverface bassman. Dating early fender amplifiers is sometimes quite challenging. Here is a simple mod i did to make it come alive and sound lots better. Amplifier fender bassman 59 operating instructions manual 20 pages amplifier fender bdec30 midi manual. The cab was cracked open on one end and i took it to my friend danny for repair. Will check it out after work, if i like it, will be adding it. If you need to keep a regular check on your blood pressure, this.
Thank you for choosing the fender bassman 100t, 100 watt tube bass head. Im really wanting a 60s bassman head and cab, but im afraid that it would be too loud for the small venues and churches that i play at. Determining production date by serial number and transformer codes is better, and you. View and download fender bassman 25 service manual online. Its completely possible that fender didnt calculate the bias correctly when converting over for the reissue, or didnt change the bias values, to run 6l6, and simply carried over the stock bias specs, which were running 5881s. In this case we remove some parts and add a few too. Discussion in amparidifiers started by hudsonnh, jun.
Fender bassman 25 25 watt bass combo amplifier reverb. The fender bassman is a bass amplifier introduced by fender during 1952. The history of the fender bassman amplifier fender. Unfollow fender bassman amp to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. This amp challenges the notion that a lower wattage bass amp has to be featureless junk. Unfollow fender bassman to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Fender vintage reissue 59 bassman ltd 4x10 guitar combo. I have a fender bassman 10 combo dated between 1972 1976. Fender rumble 25 1x8 25w bass combo amp musicians friend. Been checking out fender bassmans but someone told me that the fender supersonic sounds much like the old 66 bassman, but with extra components to model the 65 vibrolux.
The fender bassman is a legendary guitar amp known to both guitar and. Ive been researching the riveraera range of amps since 2004 and it looks like they made around three thousand bassman 20s. At 50 watts, it competed easily with the common instrumentation of the day. Fender 59 bassman ltd 50watt 4x10inch tube bass combo amp. How does the small volume cab impact tone and sound projection.
There are a plethora of bassman heads out there, and just as many circuit variations. Its dualchannel design uses modern technology to maximize classic technology, with classic fender 60s blackface styling and. I have converted a bassman 100 to a fender custom shop tone master. Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, my my dad and his brother were looking to buy new amps. Fender super bassman head 300w tube bass head black. While dating fender amps made before 1994 by serial number is all but impossible as records of. Electronic service vlog, episode 64 fender bassman 500. Dec family of amplifiers, guitar digital entertainment center and bass digital entertainment center 36 pages. Guitar by grego misterioso idioms for dummies by pete international airport. Some later bassman 10s had a mid control on the bass channel. However, i found that i rarely if ever used the bass channel.
This repair requires the removal of all the circuit. This leads to some poor soul complaining that his bassman doesnt sound like the one used by his favorite guitar player. Output increased to 70 watts when cbs switched to an ultralinear output transformer. One of the guys there showed me the fender bassman 25, because it was his personal favorite amp.
Taking apart and fixing a fender rumble 25 bass combo amplifier. I went in search of a bass amp that could be heard over the drums. Up for sale is an excellent condition fender bassman 25 25 watt bass combo amplifier. With the exception of a few years in the 1980s, the bassman has been part of fenders lineup since it was introduced. Bxr 15 bxr 25 bxr 60 bxr 100 bxr 200 bxr 300c300r bxr dual. I guess my question to the bassman owners is, can you dial it down without compromising the tone. The 70s fender circuitry wasnt all that great for guitar, so i rebuilt the amp to resemble the 60s ab763 fender blackface circuit. Bassman 10s produced between late 1980 and 1982 have a black control panel and black white silver grill cloth. Beyond the improvements themselves, the the fender 59 bassman ltd shares the same fourinput, twochannel design with independent controls for volume on each channel in addition to presence, bass, middle, and treble controls that go to 12. It removes the air between the transistors and the heatsink, allowing more efficient heat transfer. Negative feedback, fender bassman 10 premier guitar. The bassman 500 head combines fenders worldstandard blackface tube preamp with a lightweight 500 watt class d power amp. For starters, the 25s wedge design put its beefy, flexible tone where you can hear it.
It is not even broken in yet and the sounds at lower volumes make you play. Leo fender and his staff were building a new tvfront 1. Looking to get a fender head for an avatar 2x12 with a vintage 30 and greenback. My uncle bought a fender deluxe reverb from someone else for about the same price. Electronic service vlog, episode 64 fender bassman 500 bassdeep control replacement. The 18watt, 1x15 fender bassman 20 represents the last bassman tube amp released during the cbs days. The confusion arises when people misread the tables at. Some info i pulled off the web says this amp 8ohm model with four 32ohm speakers wired in parallel has fixed bias. Measuring the fender bassman 20 discussion in amps and cabs bg started by corsa, aug 3, 2012. Since my last post ive actually had a fender bassman 100 on loan, and when comparing what was inside that amp to wally bills layout noticed another discrepancy the bass channels deep switch on his layout has the 1m resistor going to the. Fender bass amplifiers and speaker enclosure owners manuals. Ive got a somewhat rare fender frontman 25b bass amp that i bought to have around for our bass player to. Get the guaranteed best price on solid state combo bass amplifiers like the fender rumble 25 1x8 25w bass combo amp at musicians friend.
How to fix an input jack crackling sound on a bass guitar. Up to the blonde bassman with blonde colored tolex circuit 6g6 they all had tube rectifier, but since then a diode rectifier was used. A more cost effective solution might be to look for a rough used bassman 25 and put the head in your cab. From 1952 through the spring of 1954, fender produced approximately 660 model 5b6 bassman amplifiers serial. Checking out my new drip edge bassman with my les paul standard.
Think it also has a high end gain channel for some more marshall crunch type of stuff. The new fender rumble 1x8 25w bass combo is an ideal choice for practice or studio play, with its great tone, small size and easytouse controls. Tokai les paul directly through fender bassman with line6 4x12. No highs, too much bass, and general dull is how i would describe the channel. Used, 1978 fender bassman 70 silverface cabinet an. Gear buying a 1973 fender bassman 50 head tomorrow at a. This amplifier was designed to provide the ultimate bass playing experience, with. Repair of a fender bassman 25 that was having problems with noise on one of the input jacks.
Well, by following this guide, you can decide which bassman head is best suited to you. In early 1952, the fender bassman amplified a great new invention the fender precision bass guitar. Auxiliary inputs and a level control make rehearsing to cds and tapes a blast. The tone master schematic is not that complicated, and you could get distortion from the distortion channel in the preamp.