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Re: Bass amp heads

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:57 pm
by Ironbird13
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:. A lot of old tube amps never had dedicated bass and guitar models, just the model that You used for the instrument You used. :idk:


my amp is an old late '60's early '70's Gunn (NZ made) with 2 inputs, pretty much one is bass and the other for guitar, but i mainly use the bass side as its got a good low end, the 2 side is modeled after a blackface fender, has awesome clean but as soon as you put distortion in front its instant black metal, whereas the bass side is brutal chug material

Re: Bass amp heads

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 12:02 pm
by Bassus Sanguinis
Ironbird13 wrote:
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:. A lot of old tube amps never had dedicated bass and guitar models, just the model that You used for the instrument You used. :idk:


my amp is an old late '60's early '70's Gunn (NZ made) with 2 inputs, pretty much one is bass and the other for guitar, but i mainly use the bass side as its got a good low end, the 2 side is modeled after a blackface fender, has awesome clean but as soon as you put distortion in front its instant black metal, whereas the bass side is brutal chug material


Sounds terrific! :thumb: Gunn, huh? I'll have to study a bit.

Anyway, the moral of the stry is: BUY AN OLD TUBE AMP - IT WILL TURN OUT GREAT! Preferably from a remote small town guitar store or the pawn shop where You can find forgotten treasures. :thumb:

Re: Bass amp heads

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 3:20 pm
by Ironbird13
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:Sounds terrific! :thumb: Gunn, huh? I'll have to study a bit.


good luck, theres not much info on them. it was originally 50w but has been modded to 100w with 2x 6550's :!!!:
only starts to break up at around 4-5 on the volume, but thats feckin loud, i have it on 1 at band practice, and got it up to just over 2 when we played a pub gig with out it miced up. loves pedals
i did have to get a choke installed in it as apparently the modern production valves dont like the 700 odd volts to the plates that they were getting :lol: (3 pairs of kt88's later :cry: )

heres a pic for ya
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and yes that is a small 4x12 :thumb: (VS4x12)