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The tough screw-in three-piece glides that used to be found on the bottom of a Fender amp have also been reduced to steel studs, which are simply hammered into place. These Brownface Bandmasters are widely regarded for their killer overdrive tone with way more low-mid chunk than the Blackface amps that followed a year later. The Bandmaster VM head has a simple cut-out underneath which slots over the loudspeaker cabinets handle, but it doesnt do a very good job of keeping it in place. At least in the US, you almost cant give them away. Those 70s cabinets were abnormally huge - and a real hassle to move around. This is a vintage 1962 Brownface Fender Bandmaster 2x12 piggyback amp. Re: Which cabinet for a bandmaster reverb head. That cab is louder than the Marshall 4x10" though, so I'd be reserving it for bigger gigs. Its blonde tolex and head and cabinet design made it a harbinger of changes on the horizon for Fender Amps. They're 16 ohms though, but can be easily rewired to 4 ohms. Different sound, but also very good and I'm still toying with the idea of getting one of those in addition to the Marshall cab. When I tested the amp in the store where I bought it, I also liked it very much through an Orange 2x12" cab. It sometimes feels as if the tones jump into your ears before you even hit the strings. I don't know if I'm making any sense now, but this seems to be a really "fast" and reactive combination. This cab doesn't exactly put out tons of low end or high end, so it's neither woofy nor shrill, which I like a lot.
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I'm still amazed about how good it sounds everytime I plug my Tele into John: At the moment, I run mine through an old Marshall 4x10" cab which is not terribly efficient but helps in getting the amp to overdrive pretty early. The clean sounds are also extremely nice and the amp is very pedal-friendly as well, besides being a very dynamic amp. The overdriven sounds are very sweet and warm and the amp really sings while retaining good clarity and string definition. It breaks up pretty early on the dial and has some nice compression going when it does. However, I think the BMR is a killer amp. Grille mounted, flat (63) or raised, chrome & black, script Fender (head and cab). I know that mine was a bit cheaper than 1200 $ and prices hereabouts tend to be (a lot) higher than across the pond, so the price seems to be a little steep. As mentioned by others, the tremolo is killer.I don't know about exact US prices for these amps, so I guess I'm of no real help there. The BM is far more "shimmery" and just overall sweeter (how's that for subjective!?). Thread starter cadaverdog Start date 4:22 am Jump to Latest C. Fender 1966 Bandmaster Blackface Head & 2x12 Cab. Fender Restoration of a Brown Concert Amplifier Cabinet. Custom Princeton Reverb Cabs with tilt legs and 12 speaker cut out. Vibrolux Replacement Cabinet by Armadillo Amp Works. My only concern is whether it'll have enough power for larger venues, but most bigger stages I've played have decent monitors, so by miking it, there shouldn't be too much of a problem.Īs I mentioned, I formerly used a Twin Reverb (a '65 RI, which I used to play at 4 or 5, volume-wise, compared to 8 or so on the BM) but much prefer the sound of the BM and outdoor reverb- I AB'd them, and the Twin RI sounds sterile by comparison. Custom 210 cabinet for a Fender Super Reverb. Of course, purists would say that surf should be played totally clean, but personally, I think the little bit of break-up makes the sound just a bit more exciting (i.e., it "sounds" loud, like an amp being pushed). A friend in the audience commented that it didn't let as much "attack" through (I guess that's the lower wattage, compared to my Twin, which he's used to hearing).
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It stays pretty clean, with just a bit of break-up when pushed a bit. It sounds absolutely fantastic, very lively and shimmery, and it totally captures the right tone for my style of music. I keep volume, bass and treble at 5 on the normal channel on the tremolo channel, I keep bass and treble around 5 or 6, but need to crank the volume to about 8 to get a good stage mix (in a small club, no less- loud bass and drummer!), and it needs a mike to get a decent house mix. Up for sale, a 1969 Fender Bandmaster Reverb cabinet.
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#Fender bandmaster head cabinet Patch
I play in an instrumental surf-type 3-piece combo, using a '65 Jaguar into a black RI Fender reverb into the normal channel, which I then patch into teh tremolo channel. I asked why they're looked down upon, because I recently picked up a '66 BM head & cab, and I love it.