Beagle216 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 I'll take it for $300!!!! =) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
slider313 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 I'm guessing by the silverface grillcloth that it's a '68 Bandmaster Reverb head. Does the head cabinet look like it's been cut down? I see corner protectors on it. Does it have a cut out on the bottom with metal slides for cabinet mounting?
skydog52 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Tone Heaven! Nice find Brently. Love the Brent Emporium.
LK155 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Disclaimer: I'm a long way from being a Fender amp expert, so take these comments in that context. Possibly not a Deluxe Reverb if it's got 6L6's in it. They were 6V6 amps. That one's got 7 pots on channel 2 and I don't know what the extra one would be. My Vibrolux Reverb has only 6: Volume, treble, bass, reverb. trem speed, intensity. Perhaps somebody added a master volume? And the fact that you had reverb while plugged into channel 1 seems to indicate some mods there. Likely if you were to post a couple of gut shots of the wiring one of the HOC amp gurus could identify the beast. Whatever it is, it certainly sounds great.
DetroitBlues Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 It must have both channels tied to the reverb channel. Lots of mods on that.... Still very cool! Of all the amps Brent has demonstrated for us, this sounds the best.
yoslate Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 I love a mongrel! No, not you, Brent, the amp....
Redsand Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Some nice tone coming out of that one…nice rescue! Is there an official "no sleeves" policy at the Emporium?
brentrocks Posted January 28, 2014 Author Posted January 28, 2014 Some nice tone coming out of that one…nice rescue! Is there an official "no sleeves" policy at the Emporium? LOL
Genericmusic Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 I love a mongrel! No, not you, Brent, the amp....
peterbright Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Great rescue! Great find. What else did you buy?
schundog Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 I'm guessing by the silverface grillcloth that it's a '68 Bandmaster Reverb head. Does the head cabinet look like it's been cut down? I see corner protectors on it. Does it have a cut out on the bottom with metal slides for cabinet mounting? It looks like The Amp Whisperer is right again! It sure looks like this beast that is sitting down the road at Monster Pawn. http://www.ebay.com/itm/PICKUP-ONLY-Vintage-1969-Fender-Bandmaster-Reverb-Guitar-Head-2x12-Cabinet-/321294786430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4acea95f7e I had this mod done to my DRRI to put reverb on both channels. I don't know schematics from a hole in the ground, so I don't know if this makes any sense for this PTP amp, but It's obviously been done to this amp, too. Great job, Brent, it sounded awesome! The Fritz Mod: http://www.fenderforum.com/userphotos/index.html?recid=48201
Guest HRB853370 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 It looks like The Amp Whisperer is right again! It sure looks like this beast that is sitting down the road at Monster Pawn. http://www.ebay.com/itm/PICKUP-ONLY-Vintage-1969-Fender-Bandmaster-Reverb-Guitar-Head-2x12-Cabinet-/321294786430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4acea95f7e I had this mod done to my DRRI to put reverb on both channels. I don't know schematics from a hole in the ground, so I don't know if this makes any sense for this PTP amp, but It's obviously been done to this amp, too. Great job, Brent, it sounded awesome! The Fritz Mod: http://www.fenderforum.com/userphotos/index.html?recid=48201 I kind of like having a normal channel and a vibrato channel. Gives me choices. I use the normal channel when plugging FX boxes into the amp.
schundog Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 I kind of like having a normal channel and a vibrato channel. Gives me choices. I use the normal channel when plugging FX boxes into the amp. It does give more options than just reverb on both channels. Here's what he says in the link you may have missed... This mod gives the reverb and vibrato to both channels. The normal channel now sounds very much like the vibrato channel with the bright cap clipped. They are now in phase, have similar gain, and may be bootstrapped (jumpered) together with a patch cord, which now works fine at any volume and gives a satisfying OD tone and some more volume. That said, I currently don't use the normal channel at all now, as I pulled the first 12AX7 per Rockabilly's advice to make the Vibrato channel break up sooner. Very easy to put back in when I want, then I can use both channels again. BTW, I've used the Vibrato channel with pedals, and not had any problems. I just turn the Reverb all the way down.
duhvoodooman Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 It looks like The Amp Whisperer is right again! It sure looks like this beast that is sitting down the road at Monster Pawn. http://www.ebay.com/itm/PICKUP-ONLY-Vintage-1969-Fender-Bandmaster-Reverb-Guitar-Head-2x12-Cabinet-/321294786430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4acea95f7e Yup, sure looks to be a silverface Bandmaster that got hacked up a bit. First time I've seen one "blackfaced" by removing the silver faceplate and painting the exposed chassis black! LOL! Sure sounds a lot better than it looks.
tsp17 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Tone Heaven! Nice find Brently. Love the Brent Emporium. +1.
Guest HRB853370 Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 It does give more options than just reverb on both channels. Here's what he says in the link you may have missed... This mod gives the reverb and vibrato to both channels. The normal channel now sounds very much like the vibrato channel with the bright cap clipped. They are now in phase, have similar gain, and may be bootstrapped (jumpered) together with a patch cord, which now works fine at any volume and gives a satisfying OD tone and some more volume. That said, I currently don't use the normal channel at all now, as I pulled the first 12AX7 per Rockabilly's advice to make the Vibrato channel break up sooner. Very easy to put back in when I want, then I can use both channels again. BTW, I've used the Vibrato channel with pedals, and not had any problems. I just turn the Reverb all the way down. Can you do the jumper thing between channels without the mod?
brentrocks Posted January 29, 2014 Author Posted January 29, 2014 Can you do the jumper thing between channels without the mod? nope...only 1 input works
smokedtires Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Nice sounding amp. I'm always envious of people that have such great recordings to the PC, haven't gotten there yet to share my own tones, someday
Dell18 Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 "picked it up from a customer of mine. An older lady...." Just a Gigilo and everywhere Brent goes... I laughed my ass off when you said "I'm gonna plug this Lollar loaded 137 in and that's pretty much gonna equal tone heaven." I gotta drops the girls off at school around 8 but me and my $300 should be in the K-zoo area shortly after 10am to pick this up!!!! SEE YA SOON
tonedeaf Posted January 31, 2014 Posted January 31, 2014 Dibs on the lava lamp. (It's gotta be for sale soon.)
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