Bassman question

[skyboltone]

An interesting addition to bassman lore Solderstain. Welcome to the neighborhood!

[martin manning]

While poking around elsewhere on the 'net, I found a site that suggested that the "best" Bassman for a rock guitar person is actually a hybrid: The AB165 preamp section, and the AA864 output section.

Hi, and welcome! Any chance you could post a link to the site you mention?

MPM

[solderstain]

Hi, and welcome! Any chance you could post a link to the site you mention?

Click here.

I found it via Google.

In fact, I love the sound so much, I just finished converting my 'project' '71 Pro Reverb into a clone of the Bassman, and did the grunt work to figure out how to retain the reverb, AND have the reverb work on both channels.

One of the other things I did on the '66 Bassman was to make the "Bass" channel a duplicate of the "Normal" channel. In the AB165, it's a miniscule change to the tone stack. So I set one channel to a basic clean, and the other channel as my kick-ass channel, and use an A/B/Y switcher to mix things around. Great fun.

When I cloned that arrangement into the Pro Reverb's chassis, I wanted to retain the reverb, and have the reverb work on both channels. Took some experimentation, but it works!

I also set it up to have both a tube rectifier (which the Pro came with) and a SS rectifier (using a Mojo rectifier board). I have a three-position Standby switch - UP for the SS rectifier, DOWN for the tube rectifier, and MIDDLE for Standby. I can have it be stiff and punchy or soft and squishy, and it sounds like a bad-ass Bassman and it has reverb and it's all in one cabinet. I'm getting too lazy to haul separate heads and speaker cabs these days. I've become a combo amp junky.

[martin manning]

Thanks, I had passed by there before at some point, but lost the trail to get back. There is lots of Bassman info here, too, if you haven't seen it already:

http://tone-lizard.com/Bassman_Modifications.htm

Maybe a Bassman head project would be a good one for me somewhere down the line, so thanks for the suggestions. Maybe it's time for me to start a file on it...

MPM