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The '80s ruined more. Or were the '80s just a continuation of the
'70s? Silverface amps aren't as bad as some of the stuff Fender made
in the '80s. I would actually enjoy owning a silverface. The Bambi
Molesters get awesome tone out of their SF Super Reverbs live with
vintage Jazzmasters.
--- In , "supertwangreverb"
<supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
>
> Yeah, but, our bassist has had some pretty loud new Ampeg amps, and
> none have the thunder that his '66 Dual Showman has. The 70s ruined
> so much....
>
>
> --- In , "mono_tones_1" <rockverb@h...>
> wrote:
> >
> > that's my impression too - it mostly the speakers though, not the
> > amps so much - it seems to me that speaker's power handling has
> > improved tremendously. If you consider that even the JBL's are
> rated
> > at 150RMS or so. I just looked in to them, and the 15" eminences
> > don't go under 250 RMS - most are between 300 and 500...
> >
> > I tried, and one JBL D140F can't handle a 100 watt bassman... so
> > you'd need that headroom, and a 100 wat bassamp is considered weak
> > these days. go figure, back then they had to do it with a 40w amp
> and
> > 2 75 watt speakers...
> >
> >
> > --- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I've always heard that back in the first wave days
> > > there wasn't much in the way of bass amps...at least
> > > not compared to the kind of clout the guitar players
> > > had. I was told that bass players did the best they
> > > could but they didn't have near the kind of luxury we
> > > do now in terms of equipment.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >
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