Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

[SongsForTheDeaf]

saw one at my local shop for 350 and it has 2 el84s and 2 other smaller tubes one of which was in a metal casing. It sounded great with a clean jazzmaster and was wondering how it takes fuzz and dirt pedals. I wound up putting it on hold

any info appreciated thanks it looks like this

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

I like the slightly older 6V6 version myself but both are cool amps and thats a good price!

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

Great for guitar, but not for bass. I'm not sure what they're worth now, but it sure used to be less than $350. I remember that I got my YGM-III for $150 in about 1997 or so.

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

cool I think I'm goanna snatch it up and I just thought of maybe taking my board into the store and trying it out with the amp in the soundroom

I don't play bass so it would just be for guitar

 

[MetalManiac]

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I really wasn't aware that there was ever a Yba-2b Bassmate with 6v6's. Must have been early 60's, I thought they were all el84's.

I got one myself , Its an earlier version than yours..I got the loaded working chassis for 160.00 shipped on ebay buy it now, and found the cabinet for 175.00. On ebay the scalpers are looking for 600.00+ for them, which is absurd. Id say 300-375, maybe 450 tops for a mint one.

I promptly proceeded to blow mine up by putting a 6BM8 ( which looks a lot like a el84/6bq5).
I
just recapped it myself this month , but both tubes are redplating, so evidently , form what they tell me, I damaged either the bias cap,grid return or bias feed resistors ( whatever those are). I could replace them, but i cannot read a schematic , so I'll have to take it to a tech. Problem is there arent any worthy techs here , the closest is Austin.

First order of buisness is to put a three prong cord, and change all those filter caps.
I'll post pics of mine of you want. I'm hoping when all is said and done , that I have a neat littel practice amp.

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

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yeah from the looks of the one I put on hold the tubes are original... It sounded great with no noise and I'm hoping with my pedals it will be a decent medium volume amp and an amp I can crank from time to time. Was curious what the wattage is on these though

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

yeah from the looks of the one I put on hold the tubes are original... It sounded great with no noise and I'm hoping with my pedals it will be a decent medium volume amp and an amp I can crank from time to time. Was curious what the wattage is on these though

15 watts fior the 6v6, 25 watts for our el84's. does yours have a three prong safety cord? Heres my Bassmate. I put an old Alnico Organ speaker in, which is mostly a woofer, and would be good jammin' low on bass with an acoustic , but I'd like to get a new Jensen 50 watt 15" cermaic eventually.;

Heres the Recap of it I did myself;

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

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I gotta say I like the look of the earlier bass mates then the one i'm getting. It has a 3 prong cord and looks ready to go... really curious to how it sounds cranked with fuzz though I like a lot of heavy sputter tones

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

Finally picked up the amp, not sure if I'm goanna keep it because it keeps getting a touch fizzy then cutting out in volume a bit then comes back in but that could just be the tubes or the cheap patch cable I was using to play just between a Semi Hollow and the amp

So far clean I found its not a super loud amp but has nice beefy round cleans and sounds really good with humbuckers but VERY bassman like with single coils.

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

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Does anyone know if it would damage the speaker using a Ibanez with active pickups on this amp ? its a 15" speaker but I don't know how powerful it really is and if it can handle the active signal.. It has a normal and high input which should I use ?

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

Does anyone know if it would damage the speaker using a Ibanez with active pickups on this amp ? its a 15" speaker but I don't know how powerful it really is and if it can handle the active signal.. It has a normal and high input which should I use ?

THose are loevely amps, built like tanks, and stupid good for the money. What you need to do now is have it recapped. Thats the noise you are hearing is wasted filter caps. There arent really tailored for actives, unless you wanna play some nice cleans. Cleans are very nice on that amp, but the tone stack was redsigned vs. the older bassmates, and the older bassmates are a littel richer sounding under breakup. You should plan on upgrading that speaker. I like the Jensen C12N 50 watt, I think it is.

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

THose are loevely amps, and stupid good for the money. What you need to do now is have it recapped. Thats the noise you are hearing is wasted filter caps. There arent really tailored for actives, unless you wanna play some nice cleans. You should plan on upgrading that speaker. I like the Jensen C12N 50 watt, I think it is.

thanks for the advice I actually really like the sound of the speaker in it now whatever it is...with the original tubes there is no noise either just a humming of the tubes behind it but that does not come out of the speaker. I was planning on trying the active bass with a catalinbread SFT into it but again I don't wanna damage the speaker either , I won't be playing TOO loud.

I really like this amps cleans with single coils... even though it is closed back it fills the room nicely plus it has character and vintage looks ... such a good find for 350

 

[MetalManiac]

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well, its a 25 watt amp. Its a better guitar amp. Not much headroom to speak of... Bass would be just practice or to play along with acoustic at low volumes, and , that old speaker sholdnt be trusted with bass under much volume, then agin, if you blow it, its not worth much to begin with and it'd give you an excuse to go out and get a Jensen 100 watt C12n 100 watt that can take a pounding and still keep sounding. Youll lose some tone for guitar though, thats why I like the 50 watt Jensen.

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

Re: Traynor 70's YBA-2b Bassmate any good?

well, its a 25 watt amp. Its a better guitar amp. Not much headroom to speak of... Bass would be just practice or to play along with acoustic at low volumes, and , that old speaker sholdnt be trusted with bass under much volume, then agin, if you blow it, its not worth much to begin with and it'd give you an excuse to go out and get a Jensen 100 watt C12n 100 watt that can take a pounding and still keep sounding. Youll lose some tone for guitar though, thats why I like the 50 watt Jensen.

that's a good way to look at it... thanks metal maniac! I will look into that Jensen speaker.. I'm a big fan of their speakers so I'm sure it would be great I have not plugged in my pedalboard yet with it which has a lot of fuzz and dirt pedals so hopefully that all sounds good too..