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Since there are no shops in Northern Nevada that can repair my Musicmaster Bass amp, and since I would likely electrocute myself if I tried to do it myself, I've decided to kill three birds with one cog.

I plan on buying a Fender Champion 600 in new condition, take it apart so that I can learn how to muddle around in a tube amp, and then put it together into something like this:

that's a terrible speaker design.

if you know not to touch anything when it's plugged in and you learn how to drain caps then you won't kill yourself.

a new amp will have a pcb which will be much more confusing. musicmaster bass amps are very simple circuits and will be much easier to figure out and "muddle" with than a new pcb based amp.

rebuilding an amp into a chassis that looks that nice will be way more work than figuring out what's wrong with your musicmaster.

plesiosaurus wrote:that's a terrible speaker design.

if you know not to touch anything when it's plugged in and you learn how to drain caps then you won't kill yourself.

a new amp will have a pcb which will be much more confusing. musicmaster bass amps are very simple circuits and will be much easier to figure out and "muddle" with than a new pcb based amp.

rebuilding an amp into a chassis that looks that nice will be way more work than figuring out what's wrong with your musicmaster.

My specific concern with the musicmaster bass amp is that there is something in there that is no longer working, last time I plugged it in and played with it, it shocked me repeatedly (it has a three prong cable) There is something wrong, and I don't know what the realm of possibilities is. It's in the "I don't know what I don't know" category.

With a brand new amp, I can just focus on moving things around, without worrying that anything is broken. And if I screw up and kill it, no big deal.

I'd be really bummed if I killed my MMB.