loudriver23
New member
SF Bassman has been in the house for a month now, so yesterday my Avatar 212 cabinet finally showed up to complete the package!
I know the SF fenders generally aren't considered all that desirable especially compared to their BF, Blonde, and Tweed ancestors. I however am starting to love the tone straight away! Very smooth round cleans as I was hoping for. The bass at least at moderate volumes isn't farty or flabby with either single coils or humbuckers.
It's nice when a plan comes together the way I hoped it would. I now believe that I have a great foundation of sound on which I can build "My Tone" upon.
The cabinet sounds great with the Helltone celestions from Avatar! I got the open back cabinet and so far I'm happy I did. Of course not playing thru the closed back as a comparison is a disadvantage, but I feel if I need a closed back cab I can just have one built custom down the road.
My next steps are to get the Bassman serviced as I'm noticing some noisy pots and possibly some microphonic tubes. I also just want to have a sanity check and determine exactely which circuit I have and if any silly mods have been made.
Then it's pedals, pedals, pedals, fuzz, distortion, overdrive, tremolo, and delay.
One other unexpected surprise, I've always used amps with built in spring reverb, but for some reason I am absolutely NOT missing having it on the Bassman! It's strange, I know it's a dry tone, but something about the creamy mids rounds it out enough to really please my ears.
Hopefully the honeymoon will yield into a long and prosperous marriage!
Thanks for listening and for all the amp/speaker/cab suggestions I've received over the past several months.
I know the SF fenders generally aren't considered all that desirable especially compared to their BF, Blonde, and Tweed ancestors. I however am starting to love the tone straight away! Very smooth round cleans as I was hoping for. The bass at least at moderate volumes isn't farty or flabby with either single coils or humbuckers.
It's nice when a plan comes together the way I hoped it would. I now believe that I have a great foundation of sound on which I can build "My Tone" upon.
The cabinet sounds great with the Helltone celestions from Avatar! I got the open back cabinet and so far I'm happy I did. Of course not playing thru the closed back as a comparison is a disadvantage, but I feel if I need a closed back cab I can just have one built custom down the road.
My next steps are to get the Bassman serviced as I'm noticing some noisy pots and possibly some microphonic tubes. I also just want to have a sanity check and determine exactely which circuit I have and if any silly mods have been made.
Then it's pedals, pedals, pedals, fuzz, distortion, overdrive, tremolo, and delay.
One other unexpected surprise, I've always used amps with built in spring reverb, but for some reason I am absolutely NOT missing having it on the Bassman! It's strange, I know it's a dry tone, but something about the creamy mids rounds it out enough to really please my ears.
Hopefully the honeymoon will yield into a long and prosperous marriage!
Thanks for listening and for all the amp/speaker/cab suggestions I've received over the past several months.
