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Fender Bassman
This Fender Bassman, custom made for a Fender customer in the late 1950s, may be the first "piggy-back" amp.

If you're looking for a great introduction to the history of amps and the people that made them, check out Ritchie Fliegler's AMPS! THE OTHER HALF OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
AMPS! The Other Half of Rock 'n' Roll This is the best available introduction to the history of guitar amps. It contains individual chapters for Fender, Vox, Ampeg, Marshall, and Mesa (Boogie). Written by a real guitar player who is an experienced studio musician and a consultant to the major
amp manufacturers (i.e. Marshall and Fender). Also contains a chapter to explain how tube amps work and a 30-page color section with some great pics of vintage amps. Check it out!

The amplifiers are:

Maker Model Serial Description
Acoustic 140 R 4835 Solid state head for bass.
Fender Bassman A 45500 Very early silver face (1968), 45 watt head with circuit AB165. This circuit differs from black face (AA165) only in having a network of solid state rectifiers substituted for the rectifier tube.
Fender Blues Deville 212 T 28203 60W tube amp with solid-state rectifier and 2 12" speakers. Clean and drive channels. Drive channel can be pushed to near Bluesbreaker tone with a Les Paul.
Fender Champ A 774279 Silver face, tailless logo. A 4-1/2 watt all tube practice amp.
Fender Champ A 828551 Silver face, tailless logo with "Made in U.S.A".
Fender Concert F 415777 Early 80s blackface with 1 12" speaker. Specs by Paul Rivera, design by Ed Jahns.
Fender Super LO-497152 60W tube into 4 10" blue frame speakers. Two inputs: lo-impedance (50s) and hi-impedance (60s). This is really a very flexible amp: One button on the footswitch selects between clean and drive channels, a second button selects one of two gain controls on the drive channel. The two high-gain modes share a common EQ, with separate EQ for the clean channel. When you couple the two different input circuits with the three different gain settings, this is an amp with six different tone modes. A great amp from the early 90s, made to emulate 50's bassman, 60's Super Reverb and stretch into more modern high-gain sounds.
Fender Super Reverb A 74562 Early 70's silver face (1971, I think). Has no Master Volume or hum control pot. Speakers are 2 12" Pyle drivers dated 24th week of 1971.
Fender Super Reverb A 78994 Mid 70s silver face (1976, I think). Has Master Volume and hum control pot. Speakers are 4 10" Fender special design, dated 52nd week of 1975.
Fender Vibro-Champ A 890352 Silver face, 4-1/2 watt amp with vibrato.
Fender Vibrolux Reverb A 02015 Black face (1965), 35 watt amp with vibrato and reverb.
Kustom 200 B1 67113 Two channel, 100W Solid state head with tuck and roll upholstery.
Marshall 4102 203267 100W 900 Series dual reverb combo with 2 12" speakers.
Peavey Audition 30 6A-02714132 Solid state practice amp. Sounds pretty good for acoustic-electric (piezo) pickups. Of course it sucks as a real guitar amp.
Peavey Classic 30 08911668 30W tube amp with 4 EL84's in the output stage, driving 1 12" speaker. Nice tone and good distortion, but don't like the cheap little LED pilot lamp or the polyethylene tube sockets.
Peavey TNT 115 00-06210099 Solid state bass combo with 1 15" speaker, 160 watts.
       

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