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This was a 26-watt tube amplifier with a single 15" speaker. In 1954, the Bassman was redesigned to use four 10" speakers. This speaker cabinet was an open-back design; as such, it had poor low-frequency efficiency and was prone to blowing speakers when used for bass because of the lack of damping.
They were made in three sizes, 1×8" (one 8-inch speaker), 1×10", and 1×15". They are all very rare today and few have survived. The first amplifiers made in-house by the Fender Electric Instrument Company were a significant step up in size and function to the small, nameless amps that preceded them, however, they didn't have technological ...
Fender Silverface Bassman amp AB165 amplifier, with a 2×15" speaker cabinet. The Fender Bassman is a series of bass amplifiers introduced by Fender during 1952. [citation needed] Initially intended to amplify bass guitars, musicians used the 5B6 Bassman to amplify other instruments, including electric guitars, harmonicas, and pedal steel guitars.
This article lists manufacturers of bass amplifiers, loudspeakers, and other amplification-related items such as preamplifiers. The amplifiers and loudspeakers used to amplify bass instruments (e.g., the bass guitar, double bass and similar instruments) are distinct from other types of amplification systems due to the particular challenges associated with low-frequency sound reproduction.
The Super Six Reverb is essentially a master volume Twin Reverb or Dual Showman Reverb equipped with six Oxford 10L6 (or CTS 10" AlNiCo) speakers featuring 10"/5.2 ohms (8 ohms each in series-parallel) and 100 watts RMS (changed to 135W in 1977). Introduced in 1972, this silverface combo amplifier was discontinued in 1979.
Fender Jaguar Bass; Fender Jazz Bass [16] Fender Mustang Bass [17] Fender Precision Bass [18] Fender Telecaster Bass [19] (once replaced as Squier Vintage Modified Precision Bass TB then Classic Vibe '50s Precision Bass) Fender Meteora Bass
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The "Tweed" 5F10 model, [2] launched in 1955, but not in time for the Fender catalog of that year, [3] was a 10-watt amplifier utilising a 6AV6 (from 1956 a 6AT6) preamplifier tube, 12AX7 phase inverter tube, [note 1] a pair of 6V6GT power amplifier tubes, and one 5Y3GT rectifier tube, [4] with a Jensen P10R 10-inch speaker. The amplifier had a ...