New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
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danglybanger
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Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
Chopstherocker's is amazing with a uhh Tubescreamer was it? in front of it.
Hell yeah
Find a silverface faceplate. Cause silverfaces look cooler :smokin:
JK. I need an amp like that.
Chopstherocker's is amazing with a uhh Tubescreamer was it? in front of it.
Hell yeah
Find a silverface faceplate. Cause silverfaces look cooler :smokin:JK. I need an amp like that.
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
That's a fun amp head. Unlike the reverb models, you can jumper the channels. Not sure what you'll hear. If you get a chance, be careful and pop the little dog house cover on the underside of the chassis near the tubes. Check the ends of those big electrolytic caps for bubbling. If you dont' see any, put the can back on. If they are original, you might want to consider changing them if they show any damage. It's an easy thing to do for a tech. It's like changing the tires on your car. Even a perfect vintage piece has to have good rubber on the road in order to make it handle well.
As far as all the caps on the inside of the amp, leave them alone.
That's a fun amp head. Unlike the reverb models, you can jumper the channels. Not sure what you'll hear. If you get a chance, be careful and pop the little dog house cover on the underside of the chassis near the tubes. Check the ends of those big electrolytic caps for bubbling. If you dont' see any, put the can back on. If they are original, you might want to consider changing them if they show any damage. It's an easy thing to do for a tech. It's like changing the tires on your car. Even a perfect vintage piece has to have good rubber on the road in order to make it handle well.
As far as all the caps on the inside of the amp, leave them alone.
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
Another fun thing would be to make it into a 1x12 or 1x15 combo amp. That way you can just use the chassis and put the head up in the closet somewhere and keep it looking pretty good. Just measure the exact dimensions of the chassis and have another blackface combo made. Pretty straight forward stuff and probably about as expensive as buying a new external speaker cab.
Another fun thing would be to make it into a 1x12 or 1x15 combo amp. That way you can just use the chassis and put the head up in the closet somewhere and keep it looking pretty good. Just measure the exact dimensions of the chassis and have another blackface combo made. Pretty straight forward stuff and probably about as expensive as buying a new external speaker cab.
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
I guess that was a tweed BM on the Who's Next stuff---a lot more grit than the BF/SF, esp. with the P10R's. This amp eats alnicos for breakfast (blew a couple of Jensens and Emis), so I loaded it with C10Q's. With the raw control (dials out the tone stack insertion loss), you can get a tweed flavor out of it.
I guess that was a tweed BM on the Who's Next stuff---a lot more grit than the BF/SF, esp. with the P10R's. This amp eats alnicos for breakfast (blew a couple of Jensens and Emis), so I loaded it with C10Q's. With the raw control (dials out the tone stack insertion loss), you can get a tweed flavor out of it.
Gunny47
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Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
I'm definitely getting a blackface amp after my Tweed when I raise enough cash after working a few more months and into the summer. I think I'm going to go this route also, the heads and hopefully find a matching cab off ebay. Looks great dude, have fun with it!
I'm definitely getting a blackface amp after my Tweed when I raise enough cash after working a few more months and into the summer. I think I'm going to go this route also, the heads and hopefully find a matching cab off ebay. Looks great dude, have fun with it!
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
Nice Piece, Tone to the Bone.:smokin:
Great cleans so far but I haven't had a chance to turn it up much. Haven't jumpered the channels or used any boosts/ODs on it yet either.
1964 Fender Bandmaster, blackface/AB763
mJ
Nice Piece, Tone to the Bone.:smokin:
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
I have a '63 transitional BF/blonde Tremolux, which is pretty similar to the '64 Bandmaster. The channels are in phase, so you can jumper them. For a cool spin on that try running a delay or reverb pedal (or even an OD pedal) in the loop between channels (i.e., gtr > Ch1-in1 > Ch1-in2 > pedal > Ch2-in1. Totally, tonally integrated sonic goodness...
I have a '63 transitional BF/blonde Tremolux, which is pretty similar to the '64 Bandmaster. The channels are in phase, so you can jumper them. For a cool spin on that try running a delay or reverb pedal (or even an OD pedal) in the loop between channels (i.e., gtr > Ch1-in1 > Ch1-in2 > pedal > Ch2-in1. Totally, tonally integrated sonic goodness...
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
it was the blond version on Who's Next i think... the model with the 3 10's... Jack Dougles said Pete got that Grestch and Bandmaster from Joe Walsh towards the end of the WN sessions... claims that most of the electric tones on that album are a Hiwatt in a booth, and a silver faced Fender Princton out on the band floor... the Princton was mic'd and the main sound on the album is a mix of the Hiwatt and Princton... You can hear the Grestch a lot on the overdubs done on Bargain with the volume pedal swells.. Quadrophenia is one album Pete claims to of used that amp and guitar a hell of a lot... Pete smashed that guitar in 73 on a tv show and had it repaired... he used it a lot after it was repaired, on almost every album he did since, but not on every track... Pete used many Fender's and Gibsons in the studio... a Pair of real 1952 Teles got used in the studio a hell of a lot.... as did a brown sunburst strat Pete got from Clapton, from the same batch of vintage guitars Clapton built Blackie... also used in the studio a lot here and there over the years was a Black RIC... that RIC was one Pete had made out of a bunch of smashed 60's RIC guitar parts lying around his basement. It was various pieces glued back together and sprayed Black. At onetime in the late 70's a friend of Petes named Irish Jack said in Petes Basement was a huge crate full of broken guitars.... He took that custom Black RIC out on the 1993 solo tour he did and played A Quick One with it
In 1965 Pete used Bandmaster heads like this one here.... mostly thru homemade cabnets, or thru early Marshall cabs.
it was the blond version on Who's Next i think... the model with the 3 10's... Jack Dougles said Pete got that Grestch and Bandmaster from Joe Walsh towards the end of the WN sessions... claims that most of the electric tones on that album are a Hiwatt in a booth, and a silver faced Fender Princton out on the band floor... the Princton was mic'd and the main sound on the album is a mix of the Hiwatt and Princton... You can hear the Grestch a lot on the overdubs done on Bargain with the volume pedal swells.. Quadrophenia is one album Pete claims to of used that amp and guitar a hell of a lot... Pete smashed that guitar in 73 on a tv show and had it repaired... he used it a lot after it was repaired, on almost every album he did since, but not on every track... Pete used many Fender's and Gibsons in the studio... a Pair of real 1952 Teles got used in the studio a hell of a lot.... as did a brown sunburst strat Pete got from Clapton, from the same batch of vintage guitars Clapton built Blackie... also used in the studio a lot here and there over the years was a Black RIC... that RIC was one Pete had made out of a bunch of smashed 60's RIC guitar parts lying around his basement. It was various pieces glued back together and sprayed Black. At onetime in the late 70's a friend of Petes named Irish Jack said in Petes Basement was a huge crate full of broken guitars.... He took that custom Black RIC out on the 1993 solo tour he did and played A Quick One with it
In 1965 Pete used Bandmaster heads like this one here.... mostly thru homemade cabnets, or thru early Marshall cabs.
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PUCKBOY99
Irish Flagologist
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
Farkus has my old one....nice amp for sure, CONGRATS !!! :beerchug:
The FD II 10th sounded great with it, but the BIG suprise was how good the Plexitone sounded with it :bigok:
Have fun trying things out...lots of cool tones in that one.
Farkus has my old one....nice amp for sure, CONGRATS !!! :beerchug:
The FD II 10th sounded great with it, but the BIG suprise was how good the Plexitone sounded with it :bigok:
Have fun trying things out...lots of cool tones in that one.
drew_half_empty
Looking for Real Life
Re: New amp day: 1964 Fender Bandmaster
very nice man, congrats
but you really need to jump the channels & crank that b****
you'll fall in love
very nice man, congrats
but you really need to jump the channels & crank that b****
you'll fall in love
