chrisanthony1211

Traded a blue sparkle Flea bass for an awsome Ampeg Heritage B-15, we met up at a train station mid way and did the deal, all was good and Chris is a pleasure to deal with.

Also sold Chris my black Flea bass, unfortunately Parcel Force are useless and it arrived a couple of day late, but Chris was understanding and patient, thanks, i'm looking forward to our next bit of business!,

Well i am looking for a Precision, but i wasnt looking to spend quite that much........but it is very nice!!!!!

Well these have been on for a month now and they look great, I've gigged and practised and they're still there looking good, I can highly recommend this to anyone having similar problems

Sold subject to the usual.

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Ampeg Heritage B-15n guts and internal organs.....!!!!!

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This is now available for £1800 as I'm wanting to put this towards another bass I've seen, it will be a cash sale, and meeting up within an hour of my home.

If the other bass sells, this will be removed.

It's still here..

For those interested, here are the guts....

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Seen something I want for £1900, so willing to let it go for this...

I've been after a 1972 P bass, but this jazz looks very nice indeed.....

Quite happy to take some snaps on the guts, I shall get onto it when I get a bit of time.

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Do those old pots still work???

Gigged with this at WSL in Sheffield last night and she sounded truely awesome, she's strung with Elixir nano webs and absolutely thumps.......!

I obviously don't intend to play on a stage this dark, but they do seem to be pretty good in the dark!!

Do those original pots work??

I've been buying rosette transfer dots for my vintage precision, the clay dots have sucked up the oil from the wood can't be seen on a dim stage, but the rosette markers whilst good, don't last particularly long, so, I've been trying to come up with an alternative. I used some glow in the dark tape and a belt hole maker to punch out some small dots to the appropriate size and stuck them over the existing dots, and to my surprise they seem to work really well. I shall be trying a few different types of tape to see which is the best, I've currently used a roll, however some glow dots arrived today which look to have a lower profile, each dot should make 3 or 4 smaller dots. I shall put some photos of them glowing later on, but I'm pretty pleased, and of course they just peel off without causing any damage.

It's a win, loved my amp one and the customer services from AER were second to none. I bought mine second hand off basschat, it was about six years old and it developed a farty fault, I sent it off to AER for repair, they had it for a while and couldn't actually find the fault, so they sent me a brand new one back free of charge, now that's customer service!

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I got this off Beadster a couple of months ago and now have the opportunity to gig and practise with it. It certainly looks the business but can it deliver, and will it stay with me?

This is a very expensive reissue of the classic Ampeg B-15, it has two channels, one based on the 1964 circuit and one based on the 1966 circuit, the 1964 being 25 watts and the 1966 the full 30 watts which may appear somewhat modest, however these are Ampeg Valve watts that we're talking about!

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Well it's first run out was at a rehersal and it held its own quite nicely with an un miked drummer, guitarist and Hammond keyboards, with the volume at about 1 o'clock through either channel, i was concerned that this would not be loud enough but it certainly did not appear to be the case at rehearsal, I found the 1966 channel a little thin for my liking, but the 1964 channel was pure silk and sexiness, I'm sure that some people would prefer the 1966 channel but for what I play the 1964 channel sits pretty perfectly. (Plus my Precision is from 1964!!)

Did another rehearsal with a brass section who were also un miked and had to turn down so they could be heard, (three saxaphones and a trumpet)

I've now gigged with it twice, once in a pretty average size pub with a decent turn out of punters, and the second in a medium sized hall, I found pretty much the same, the volume slightly higher at 2 o'clock, the first set through the 1966 channel and the second set through the 1964, and again I found the 1964 channel was silk sexy but not so keen on the 1966, and the feedback from those that came to watch was it sounded pretty awesom regardless of the channel....

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Where most combos I've had you really have to think twice when the volume knob gets towards 2/3 o'clock, this thing just breezes on past all the way to maximum, and it will give you great tones and more volume all the way through, with just a touch of overdrive and break up as you get towards the top end. I found that I would need the eq so that the bass was about 3 o'clock and treble at 1 o'clock for a nice fat sound. My worries that it would not be loud enough were totally unfounded, it is way louder than the SWR Redhead I previously owned, and I think it would keep up pretty well with a Walkabout. I did a decibel test alongside my Mark bass CMD121p and she was lagging behind by 1 or 2 decibels, but certainly sounded better at those volumes.

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Not only does this thing look super sexy, but it sounds it too, it's perfectly able to gig small to medium venues and of course you can drop it down to 4 ohms and throw an extension cabinet at it if needed!

So will I be keeping her is a decision I need to make now, and that brings about the two negatives with this Amp. The first being that it is an extremely expensive piece of kit, you have to pay for this type of quality! I've been very careful where I take it so far, and I certainly don't want this to be banged about by other people's gear whilst they're setting up, it has a high quality Ampeg cover, but still a crazy legged Guitarist could do quite a bit of damage trying to squeeze past and giving it an expansive blow with his roadworn strat.....

The second negative is the weight of this thing, again there is always the argument that the weight is a sign of the quality, but I've got used to taking my super lightweight Mark bass gear with me which also happens to sound pretty good, and although this does have casters and the head folds down very nicely into the cab for transport, I have found transporting this a little bit of a hassle...

I may decide just to leave it set up in my lounge and use it as a rather extravagant practise amp that just gets the occasional runout, or it may be in the classified section in six months time, time will tell, but this is a rather fine Amplifier of bass guitars which certainly sets the benchmark when you want the best of tones.

Such is my fickle nature, I may change my mind and keep it yet though...

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I think in 66 they were hand writing the dates, in the 70s the last three of the four digits were usually week and year, being 46th week of 1976......but I'm not sure when they went to the six digit codes......