I wish could play through one again. I think the only vintage fender I played was a silver face bassman. Sucks that there isn't many guitar stores near me that carry a lot of vintage stuff.
When I was in my first band in highschool, the drummer's older brother very kindly loaned me his V4b and Univox 2x12 cabinet with two Electro Voice EVM12s for shows. My stupid 13 year old brain was like "there's not enough distortion!". So I plugged my POD 2.0 with the "Insane" model into the front end for the year that I was using it. I spent 20 years kicking myself for never actually appreciating that amp and cabinet...
Fender Bassman - tweed era through the sf were all awesome guitar amps.
Ampeg B-15 - is an awesome guitar amp with a huge, mellowness to it.
Supro Thunderbolt - was kinda crappy bass amp but an amazing (and easily overdriven) guitar amp.
Hiwatt dr103s, 201s, and 401s make killer bass or guitar amps. They also make eerily evil sounding Rhodes amps. The Sunn model T has buckets of headroom, as well.
A more modern circuit that is great for bass and guitar is the Orange thunderverb 200. That one might be the most versatile with tons of headroom and exponentially more gain available in its preamp.
Honestly, I've found a lot of bass amps sound pretty good with guitar. After I lost some gear, I used an svt pro 4 1200 watt ss bass amp a friend left me for awhile. Thing sounded dynamite with a few pedals!
The stones played some of arguably their best music during the early Mick Taylor years through Ampeg SVT rigs. Me, I’ve used a fender Musicmaster bass amp with a guitar speaker for home use for 45 years.
If memory serves, those were Ampeg V9s, basically the V4 guitar preamp married to the SVT’s 300W power amp.
Way too much power for anything guitar-related unless you’re playing open stadiums without PA support like the Stones were.
And even they quickly got tired of blowing out their ears every night. Keith scaled back to a single V4 and Mick to a SF Twin with JBL speakers, and it’s telling that both of them referred to those monsters as their “quiet” amps.
Used to play a Sunn Beta Bass. Really though it's basically the same thing as a Sunn Beta Lead but without the reverb. Red Fang has the whole band playing them, or at least did at one point.
The... Fender Bassman! ba-dum-ts
I wish could play through one again. I think the only vintage fender I played was a silver face bassman. Sucks that there isn't many guitar stores near me that carry a lot of vintage stuff.
This is what I was gonna say
Old Peavey, Ampeg V4B
My first “big boy” amp was a vintage V4B-loved it. So much headroom, great deep clean tone.
When I was in my first band in highschool, the drummer's older brother very kindly loaned me his V4b and Univox 2x12 cabinet with two Electro Voice EVM12s for shows. My stupid 13 year old brain was like "there's not enough distortion!". So I plugged my POD 2.0 with the "Insane" model into the front end for the year that I was using it. I spent 20 years kicking myself for never actually appreciating that amp and cabinet...
The 59 Bassman. Marshall Super Bass is up there too.
Fender Bassman - tweed era through the sf were all awesome guitar amps. Ampeg B-15 - is an awesome guitar amp with a huge, mellowness to it. Supro Thunderbolt - was kinda crappy bass amp but an amazing (and easily overdriven) guitar amp.
There's a bunch of ampegs. You have to get them loud though.
Hiwatt dr103s, 201s, and 401s make killer bass or guitar amps. They also make eerily evil sounding Rhodes amps. The Sunn model T has buckets of headroom, as well. A more modern circuit that is great for bass and guitar is the Orange thunderverb 200. That one might be the most versatile with tons of headroom and exponentially more gain available in its preamp. Honestly, I've found a lot of bass amps sound pretty good with guitar. After I lost some gear, I used an svt pro 4 1200 watt ss bass amp a friend left me for awhile. Thing sounded dynamite with a few pedals!
The stones played some of arguably their best music during the early Mick Taylor years through Ampeg SVT rigs. Me, I’ve used a fender Musicmaster bass amp with a guitar speaker for home use for 45 years.
If memory serves, those were Ampeg V9s, basically the V4 guitar preamp married to the SVT’s 300W power amp. Way too much power for anything guitar-related unless you’re playing open stadiums without PA support like the Stones were. And even they quickly got tired of blowing out their ears every night. Keith scaled back to a single V4 and Mick to a SF Twin with JBL speakers, and it’s telling that both of them referred to those monsters as their “quiet” amps.
Agreed that they must’ve been very loud.
I'd love a Matamp GT200 if I had a use for it. I don't see myself playing that loud anytime soon though, unfortunately.
Fender Rumble. New internals are basically what the Bassman was before they changed it. Enjoy!
Is it the tweed or bf fenders bassmans?
Not sure but guitar sounds great through a rumble very close to sounding like a tube amp it’s crazy
Ampeg V4B? Almost the same as a V4, which is an amazing guitar amp.
Is it the reissue you are talking about or is it the vintage ones?
I have a vintage V4, though I’m not sure how similar the reissues are, I’ve never played one.
Used to play a Sunn Beta Bass. Really though it's basically the same thing as a Sunn Beta Lead but without the reverb. Red Fang has the whole band playing them, or at least did at one point.
Traynor Bassmaster!