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hey man, I'm from the 70's, gimme break!
silverfaces are decent - and very modable. even the UL's can be made
to sound okay - but nothing better - the older ones are better, and
easaly blackfacable. that's the problem; you see a silverface, and
you don't have clue what it is: anything can be inside, from '63
schematic 'til a '79 schematic - huge difference!
claiming a ss ampeg is an ampeg is like claiming a fender sidekick is
a fender haha. A friend of mine has a 65 watt solid state bass
sidekick. Just last week i referred to him as "the guy who does not
own an amp." - he never uses it too, always borrows one of mine, and
is currently looking for a real amp. there you go.
another former bassist had the 300RMS SVT with 8X10 - sounded great
if you set it way too loud. at normal volume, i'd prefer pushing a
100w fender, pushed tubes just sound a lot abetter, imho. matter of
tatse probably, and of how much you really need.
WR
--- 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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