hmmmm if he cranks the fucker... yeah. The baseman 20 is only 18 watts and a 18 watt bass amp against a 65 watt guitar amp... not good. I use mine for recording for the most part [it really is my pedal trial amp, pedals sound great though it] and have just grabbed it a few time last minute.
I think you're thinking of the Pro Reverb...Deluxe Reverb is 22 watts, yeah? Reason I ask is the last set up I was running was a git through a Ampeg J20 (20 watts - 2 6v6s) and I felt like that was a good volume. Trying to get something for bass that is relatively compact, and would do that amount of volume.
I've looked a little at the Bassman 20 as a DIY template for a little head. It's pretty much along classic blackface/silverface lines circuit wise. Surprising thing is that the power transformer doesn't do the typical bass amp trick of having extra current capacity so I would expect some squish in high volume playing and the output transformer is the same little one in the SuperChamp so expect it to saturate fairly easily with loose-ish bass response. Whether this is good or bad is probably a matter of opinion. Adds up to cheap transformers to do a build, though.
D.o.S. wrote:Broadly speaking, if we at ILF are dropping 300 bucks on a pedal it probably sounds like an SNES holocaust.
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