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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:49 pm
by tribi9
dodgedartdave wrote:
tribi9 wrote:Sweet price, very sweet! All the items I ever bid on get ridiculously high!!
You've gotta watch stuff for a while. I've been watching the musicmaster bass amps for a while now.... You gotta get a feel for what the ebay worth is and then when a deal comes along, jump on it in the last second. You win some, you lose some.

Did you get a load of all those mods that have been done to that amp?

:wink:
Those sound like some kick ass mods, some are more of an upgrade than a mod!

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:38 am
by dodgedartdave
tribi9 wrote:
dodgedartdave wrote:
tribi9 wrote:Sweet price, very sweet! All the items I ever bid on get ridiculously high!!
You've gotta watch stuff for a while. I've been watching the musicmaster bass amps for a while now.... You gotta get a feel for what the ebay worth is and then when a deal comes along, jump on it in the last second. You win some, you lose some.

Did you get a load of all those mods that have been done to that amp?

:wink:
Those sound like some kick ass mods, some are more of an upgrade than a mod!
I agree, but I don't wanna get into a debate over that.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:45 am
by dodgedartdave
matt69vdub wrote:Nice score. I love mine. Its all stock though. That one said its setup for guitar? How do they do that?
I don't really know what they mean by that either. I guess I'll find out.

I'm finding out that the musicmaster bass amp is kinda known as a crappy bass amp and a fantastic guitar amp. I guess I'll find out how different this one sounds.

I may end up making a seperate head and 2 seperate cabs for the speakers. Then I'd just sell the cabs on ebay.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:27 am
by filtercap
I'm guessing they said it's been set up for guitar because the Torres kit they added is marketed as a way to make the MM into a better guitar amp. The kit might be some different bypass capacitors and whatnot to crank up the gain, and maybe a different cap for the tone knob.

I'd never looked at the schematic before now. Two cathode-biased 6V6 tubes -- an unusual approach for Fender, though it looks like they did this with some of their very first amps in the 1940's. It uses a transformer for a phase splitter. Never seen that before either.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:25 am
by Mike
I've played that amp stock, and it doesn't need modding to be great for guitar. It already is great for guitar, what it suffers at ironically is being a bass amp.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:18 am
by mickie08
Mike wrote:I've played that amp stock, and it doesn't need modding to be great for guitar. It already is great for guitar, what it suffers at ironically is being a bass amp.
Honestly, that's the same for the fender bassmans. They can do OK, but not verstatile, and probably not loud enough for a more modern rock band.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:31 pm
by NickD
The stock one breaks up to easily for a bass amp, and that is what makes it great for guitar.

DDD, upgrades or not, the market prefers original, irrespective of whether the changes sound better.