Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: plexi50 on August 20, 2012, 05:33:52 pm
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Which Bassman head do you like the best. The reason i ask is i have a 1966 AB165 and it sounds like crap. Breaks up too soon. Little headroom. I know why because the PI is totally different than the AA versions
I prefer the AA864 or AA165. I really like the AA165
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Which Bassman head do you like the best. The reason i ask is i have a 1966 AB165 and it sounds like crap. Breaks up too soon. Little headroom. I know why because the PI is totally different than the AA versions
I prefer the AA864 or AA165. I really like the AA165
+1....AA165 is a great circuit...doesn't even need any mods and sounds killer. good do-all amp.
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I like the AA864 best,next to the Blonde bassman 6G6A and B circuits.
I did work on a few AA165's that sounded great too.Don't like the AB165 much.
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Yes i forgot about the 6G6A. Shame on me. That is one fine sounding brown face amp too
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I vote for the AA864 circuit------clean and beautiful until cranked way up--- then breaks up nicely.
This is just considering BF Fender Bassman amps--- the earlier Brownface 6G6 series amps are great in their own right but are a different animal----- i like them all......................gldtp99
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6G6A
which channel; bass or normal? bass channel seems to have a lot of gain. both tone ckts are intriguing.
have heard a AA165 & liked it. did a breadboard build of a 5F6A - it was OK. bassman 100 - not at all. no opinion on the rest...
--DL
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6G6A
which channel; bass or normal? bass channel seems to have a lot of gain. both tone ckts are intriguing.
have heard a AA165 & liked it. did a breadboard build of a 5F6A - it was OK. bassman 100 - not at all. no opinion on the rest...
--DL
Bassman 10 and 100 are different beasts entirely. The actually sound for bass! I have a Bassman 10 converted to a head that gets a lot of use in my studio as a recording amp. For bass. One of these older amps for guitar has been on my to build list for a while. An old practice space I used had a blonde 6G6 (can't remember if A or B) that I loved for guitar.
Chris
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6G6A
which channel; bass or normal? bass channel seems to have a lot of gain. both tone ckts are intriguing.
--DL
The Vibroverb 6G16 Normal (not "Bright" c/w Reverb) Channel is very similar to the Brown Bassman 6G6 A/B Normal channel.
Really like this tonestack, very usable. Is the Bass channel on the Brown / Blackface Bassmans popular with guitar players? I know Pete Townshend used Brownface / Blonde Bassmans, Pros & Tremolux amps in the early Who & many Beatles mid period recordings used Brown / Blonde Bassmans.
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I have tweaked, mod and whatever you want to call it to ab's, aa's and the 6g's. The brown face are sweet, but 1 trick ponies as well as the rest are 1 trick ponies in their own rights.
I prefer the silverface bassman 100.
It has the most versitile stock config. So its no a 1 trick pony.
It has a platform that can be modifide extreemly easy.
The transformers allow for alot tube variations and you can even add a couple preamp tubes if you want.
The OT will work well with el's, 6l6's, kt 88, ect.. just know and understand speaker loading and OT pr:sec ratio's.
It is IMHO the best and most versitile bassman ever built.
BUT the pro reverb is still my #1 for that classic fender tone. :laugh:
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AB864 is my favorite, but I just got a 6g6a yesterday with matching 2 12 cab. I have to say I like it better, but the honeymoon is not over. These are for playing. My favorite is the side mounted first JTM-45 cause it looks so cool.
I don't know what is meant by them being a one trick pony.
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1 trick pony means they do 1 thing very well
but
lack at most other things.
such as the jcm 800, bogner ubershall, vox ac30 ect.... these are all amps that do 1 sound realy well,
but lack the ability to cross over into other tones and genre's without sacraficing some tone or performance.
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I'm doing my best to reproduce from pics, the schematics and layout for the 5D6. :BangHead:
Found the pics on guitar forum, Alledgedly, this is suppose to be better sounding than the 5F6a
:dontknow: Do we have a Fender convert? with a handle like Plexi, I thought you would be a Marshall person. :w2:
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I'm doing my best to reproduce from pics, the schematics and layout for the 5D6. :BangHead:
Found the pics on guitar forum, Alledgedly, this is suppose to be better sounding than the 5F6a
:dontknow: Do we have a Fender convert? with a handle like Plexi, I thought you would be a Marshall person. :w2:
In the begining i was all marshall this and marshall that. Eventually i got burned out after several years and started to discover there was another world of different sounding amps. Seems like it took forever.