Should I sell my Bassman, and what are they even worth??

[panoramic]

fascinating, would play

Same. Utterly insane but I bet it's fun. Put it on top of an 810 and blow some minds

the treble would be MENACING but worth every second of it, could you run both trem circuits at once? I need so much more info.

[JSett]

fascinating, would play

Same. Utterly insane but I bet it's fun. Put it on top of an 810 and blow some minds

the treble would be MENACING but worth every second of it, could you run both trem circuits at once? I need so much more info.

They're not actually that bright an amp...just the stock speakers are bass-deficient so they often sound bright because of that. My '65 has a Weber in it and, if anything, could do with a little more treble on tap! It gets brighter the louder you turn it up but never piercing.

Run it into a stereo cab, with two different tremolo speeds - or two spaced cabs - and it'd blow your mind I reckon

[hulakatt]

Why am I seeing so many "racks" with BF/SF amp chassis in them lately? What in the holy ****?

[OffYourFace]

I don't know if you sold it or not but I was in the same boat recently. Mine is a '67 and has always been a basketcase. It was converted to AA864 specs but something in the bass channel was off. The circuit looked correct but there's a gremlin somewhere... the eyelet board was a mess in that section so who knows. So today I said fuggit and completely rebuilt it.

I omitted the 2nd gain stage and pulled out V2. I basically turned the amp into a bandmaster minus the more beefy Bassman OT. I transformed the bass channel into Rob Robinette's Lead Channel. I really like it. It's tight and I've got more headroom. It responds to pedals better now IMO.

My bright switch was changed to a midrange selector switch (goes from 2.7k to 6.8k but I may change it from 6.8k to 10k) and my negative feedback resistor is now 1.5k. It's kinda more Marshall-y now but def still fender. The normal channel is stock but I did add a .047 coupling cap before it hits the phase inverter to make it more Bandmaster-y.

I AM SO HAPPY with this amp now.
I'll probably experiment with adding the 2nd tube stage back in but I'm very happy for now.

[Brock the Mod]

This has gotta have *some* bearing on things...

[Jonesie]

This has gotta have *some* bearing on things...

[GreenKnee]

Johnny's not around to reply sadly
I bought the Bassman from him a couple of months ago and I absolutely love it. It's really changed my approach to effects compared to the Twin Reverb I also use - the Bassman doesn't need OD pedals or heavy gain, just boosts and a fuzz for fun to get great sounds. I've gigged it a few times now and couldn't be happier.

The mods you've done sound really interesting. I don't use the Bass channel much so I'd be up for potentially modding it to get some different sounds out of the amp. I'll have to look in to them a bit more when I get some time

Here it is, currently living in the dining room which the Mrs isn't too happy about

[MattK]

Huh, clearly the Bassman isn’t as big as I imagined, it looks quite dainty, so does the tiny Jaguar and those mini pedals beside the OH MY GOD THAT CAT

[GreenKnee]

He's a gentle giant

[MattK]

Magnificent!

[Chippertheripper]

Those Ron Perlman cats are sweet.