That was my biggest problem with the Bassman the one time I tried it. I was struggling to be heard over the drums. I went back to the old Peavey Mark III head I was using at the time.
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In the 70's I had a Bassman 135. I could never get the tone that I wanted. It always sounded very clinical and uninteresting - not valvey at all. [Having played some SVTs recently, they seem very coloured, which of course I no longer like!]
Part of my dislike of the Bassman I put down to the fact that I didn't understand the EQ. Apparently a neutral EQ is 3 5 and 7 or whatever it is on bass/mid/treble. Not knowing this (and obviously I still don't) I didn't start from flat and work from there boosting and cutting each in turn to get the EQ I was after in my head. This was married to a brand new 70's P. It should have worked just dandy but after a year or so I sold it.
Not much help I'm sure. Davo
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i have played through the fender 400 pro head and 210 combo before. i liked it well enough. i got a chance to sample a TB-600 pro series head at summer NAMM over the weekend. i won't be buying it, but it was pretty decent.
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If you're talking about old blackface tube fender amps sure. A 50 watt bassman is a tone machine, forget about flat this is what the electric bass is supposed to sound like. Plug it into any modern 4 ohm speaker cabinet and prepare for sonic nirvana.
They aren't loud enough for most gigs but the tone is the classic sound of thousands of R&B and rock albums.
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Originally Posted By: Big Daddy from Motown
If you're talking about old blackface tube fender amps sure. A 50 watt bassman is a tone machine, forget about flat this is what the electric bass is supposed to sound like. Plug it into any modern 4 ohm speaker cabinet and prepare for sonic nirvana.
They aren't loud enough for most gigs but the tone is the classic sound of thousands of R&B and rock albums.
