What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

[britishgeetah]

Tell me everything.

 

[therizzla]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

Which model - Tweed, Brownface, Blackface...?

I'll assume you're talking blackface though.

http://www.ampwares.com/ffg/bandmaster_bf.html

If that wasn't the model then just cut that URL down to www.ampwares.com/ffg and look under Bandmaster.

Hope that helped, a great old Fender for sure!

- R

 

[jeremy]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

i know a little about the tweed versions but not much about the others

 

[britishgeetah]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

what's the difference?
how do they sound?
how much would they cost?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

what's the difference?
how do they sound?
how much would they cost?

Which one are you looking at?

There are Tweed Versions, brownface versions, blone ones, BF ones, SF ones and the kicker is that they are all different...as for prices you will see numbers ranging from $350 to 5k+ depending on which one you want.

 

[Stratman]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

The good one has the TFL 5005 circuit (Bandmaster Reverb)

It can be changed / modified into a Super Reverb or Vibroverb quite easily.

Bandmasters in native state are clean, but wimpy.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

Old tweeds are great!

 

[Quencho092]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

i like them. My blonde bandmaster has a VERY crisp 'soaring' sound....thats the best i could describe it. The high end is very defined but not painful, it just sounds beautiful. I need to fix it up though

 

[ES350]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

The tweed 3x10" Bandmasters (there aren't that many) go for big bucks these days...one went for 18K not long ago. OTOH, a beat one went for just about 2,700 last few days...

The brown 3x10" version lasted one year...also hard to find, but a lot cheaper.

The later versions (blonde/BF/SF) were all head/cab...they all sound good with a little (or a lot of) help and with the right speakers.

 

[britishgeetah]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

Which one are you looking at?

There are Tweed Versions, brownface versions, blone ones, BF ones, SF ones and the kicker is that they are all different...as for prices you will see numbers ranging from $350 to 5k+ depending on which one you want.

yeah, i want to know the difference for all of them.

I do like the look of the blonde ones.

 

[Quencho092]

Re: What do you know about Fender Bandmasters?

but again, the last time i heard my bandmaster at full capacity was when it had a 15 inch JBL D130F from the 60's in it....awesome clean tone!