6/10/2023 0 Comments Musicmaster amp![]() A lot of owners go for an upgrade like a Weber for more vol. I have a '74 and it sounds great with a pair of 6AQ5A's in it instead of the the 6V6 powered ones that some favor. Some would say what more do you need? I round out the tone of mine with an OD pedal, 6 band EQ and an Alesis nanoverb. Controls volume, tone and the on/off switch. You can get by with it in a small club doing Blues n' basic Rock. Mine rivals a friend's Princeton amp (for volume anyways). the 5 watts with a 8" speaker for the Champ. They sound quite like mid 60's through 70's Champs except louder having a 12 watt output and a 12" speaker vs. don't expect it to be much of an investment since no one famous that i know of ever played one but, to me they sound every bit as good as a champ from the same era. ![]() depending on how cheap you can buy it for and how much shipping will set you back you should probably get it. ![]() there was another version with a different tube setup but i can't remember now what it was. they are extremely stripped down (no reverb, no nothing) but they sound fabulous if its the 6v6 version. Thanks.Īs far as i can tell the musicmasters are the last of the "affordable" vintage fender amps. My question, basically, is whether it's worth it for me to buy the amp from her, have it shipped cross-country (she's in Seattle, I live in Boston), and get it fixed up? Or would I be better off just buying a new Blues Junior or something like that? I'm aware that there's no definitive answer to a question like this, I'm just curious what the forum opinion on the Musicmaster bass is (for guitar amplification, of course-I gather that these suck as bass amps). The pots are scratchy, and it makes a lot of static-type noise when it's on-I presume that means that it probably needs a recap? It sounds pretty decent, despite the noise, but the only guitar I have to try it out with here is an old DeArmond M65C (LP copy), and I'm a SC kinda guy. My guess is that everything is stock (well, maybe not the tubes-they're Sovteks). Is this a low-watt vintage tone machine? Or another piece of CBS-era low-end junk? It's a silverface, from 1976, so far as I can determine (it uses two 6V6s). ![]() Strong enough, loud enough, but more of a vehicle for pedals than something with enough character to carry its own.My sister has a Fender Musicmaster bass amp that she's planning to get rid of. It's also a bass guitar and I don't have a bass to put through it unlike the amps that I enjoy most that are a musical end in themselves, this one isn't. I tried to get him to audition my Jensen P12N in it - that alnico and 6V6s were alchemy. Anyway, it isn't for me, it has plenty of volume for his needs, and he has pedals that convert it to what he wants it to do. He sticks a pedal in front of it, and he's Ted Nugent, in part because he can play like Ted Nugent. He's a strong musician and adept recorder so the application is different. Paul has a couple of pedals that Marshallize the amp. I turn it to 4 and I either like it or turn it off it's designed for loud, clean, and later breakup but I like dirty early breakup. Gotta remember other than turning up the volume, I'm pretty much a doofless toe-tapper of a musician. but I thought it a little limited or pinched sounding. Hi Walter Plenty of signal, good enough sound-stage as the stereo geeks would say. Every Fender Bassman has a 50uf cap in the same location. The preamp cap acts like a low-pass filter it prevents higher frequencies from passing while allowing the lower ones to pass. The Musicmaster schematic below showing a large value 50uf cap on the left bypassing the preamp cathode resistor and a conventionally sized 25uf cap bypassing the output tube's cathode resistor on the right. In LTG's Voicing Amps thread, there's a lot of discussion about the effects of cathode bypass capacitors on tone and frequency response. In this discussion of the differences between Black and Silverface Fender amps, they say the Musicmaster is a 'tone monster'! Additional Musicmaster specifications at Ampwares According to them, this is the only Fender design with a coupling/inverting transformer and explains why there is only one preamp tube, rare for a twin or push/pull amp. They go on to say that the function of the transformer is to couple the audio stage to the output and achieve phase inversion without the use of another tube and its necessary sidekick resistors and capacitors that, in most amps, act as the phase inverter. According to Teagle and Sprung's Fender Amps, the Musicmaster was in production from 1970 to 1982.
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