BassmanPaul

Allows the controls on the front of the chassis to be at the top of the cabinet's front panel for easy access. Think of a Fender tube amp compared to say a Marshall.

Newbie! LOL I'm 77.

The way I look at it is that the smaller the size the easier it is for someone to steal. My main power amp is capable of 2KW and with it's pre-amp in a 4 space SKB case I can pick it up with two fingers. That's small enough and light enough for me.

@kevham How Long did it take before you learned which way around to hold the bass?? ;D

if the cabinet is from before the G4M purchase it will be a pretty superior product. Try it and see what you think.

Drummers are weird! It's why they play drums!!!

I could only gig mine when it was connected to a Marshal 4x12 speaker cabinet. I did have to rewire the cabinet for 4Ω to suit the output impedance of the amp. The pre-amp that you linked to was interesting. I'd never have thought to leave the tubes in such a precarious position. That said I do have a soft spot for the old octal based tubes!

Merthyr Tydfil eh? Nice town. In the early Seventies I helped commission your telephone exchange!! LOL

Yes I saw them both when I first took a gander. The seller described the Bassman as the best bass amp in the world. Ho ho ho!

A lot of us back In the Sixties played through Marshall amplifiers. I had a JTM45, I think that's right - it was a long time ago, that had a pair of KT66s as outputs. As an experiment I tried a pair of 6L6WGB in the amp and preferred them so I left them in. I still have that pair of KT66 tubes in my tube caddy.

Peavey do design some pretty nice stuff.

And apparently it's gone! LOL

I never took to Yorkvliles solid state offerings. That said to each his/her own.

I hope it meets all of your expectations.

Were you perchance standing too close to your amplifier? Magnetic pickups can handily react to the AC fields from an amplifiers' power supply.

Sadly this is so true but we can still try to educate. I feel that the pairing first came up when the marketing department of some company or other tried to show multiple cabinets in one photo shoot.

Is there an update? Did you get the problem sorted?

I attended an open jam on Queen St, Downtown Toronto. I was very pleasantly surprised at how well the supplied bass amp handled the Low B of my six string. It had no trouble pumping it out. When I asked what the amp was I was told it was a Fender Rumble350 combo with 2x10s. I don't think you can go wrong with a Rumble.

10s are quite capable of giving you a full, rich sound. My Acme B2 cabinets are amazing.

The positive side to this is that now you know why folk say that pairing a 1x15 with a 4x10 is a terrible idea. Sorry you had to find out the hard way!

What? A grub screw???

In 1968 I bought a Blonde Blackface Fender Bassman brand new from Dawson's music shop in Runcorn Cheshire. I set it up on stage, leaned it back on its legs and switched it on. What came out was the biggest disappointment of my playing career. The gig was pure torture. I took it back as soon as I could. They had sold my trade-in but I left the Bassman anyway. I still have nightmares about that amp! Giggable? I really hope that you find that it works for you. For myself and a lot of other players it was not! The Ampeg B15 series of amps were so much better.

I agree completely. My 'sound' was a clean clear bass tone. I didn't want to sound like I was playing through a fuzz box. The search led me down the path of designing my own amplification. The largest tube amp I ever built was 150W using six 6L6GC tubes. I had originally designed it before I left the UK for six EL34s. Being in North America I went with the US tubes. It worked very well but still gave me some distortion at loud volumes. I went Solid State and designed a 200W per channel @ 4Ω Stereo power amp and a pre-amp to drive it. That kept me happy for a few years. LOL

Break a string! Bass equivalent of break a leg for dancers. LOL