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[5] [6] By 1963, the Portaflex series business had grown to 44% of Ampeg's amplifier sales. In 1962, Ampeg introduced the plastic-bodied Baby Bass, a compact upright electric bass created from the Zorko bass, whose design Ampeg had acquired from the Dopera brothers, [7] along with a unique Oliver-designed, Ampeg-patented pickup. In 1962, Ampeg ...
He made the first Trainwreck amp in his shop in New Jersey, in late 1982/early 1983. With inspiration from Atlantic Records Caspar McCloud the amp was named 'Ginger' after Caspar's wife. [ 6 ] His first amps (later named "Liverpool 30") were based on the 4 × EL84 configuration of the Vox AC30 . [ 1 ] "
The first amp in Ampeg’s Portaflex series was the B-15, a 2-channel tube amplifier with per-channel volume controls and shared Baxandall-type tone control, housed within a ’flip-top’ tuned-port cabinet design mounted to a dolly. Shortly after the B-15’s introduction in 1960, it became the most popular bass amp in the world.
The Acoustic 360 was a "200-watt, solid state head designed to drive the 361 cabinet, a rear-firing 18” speaker enclosure". [1] The engineers who designed the amp and cabinet in 1967, Harvey Gerst and Russ Allee, mounted the 18" speaker in a folded horn enclosure; the 360 amp had a built-in fuzz bass effects unit. [2]
The company now plans to relaunch Gemini AI in the next few weeks. Since the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, Alphabet-owned Google has been racing to create a rival ...
The Ampeg SVT is a bass guitar amplifier designed by Bill Hughes and Roger Cox for Ampeg and introduced in 1969. The SVT is a stand-alone amplifier or "head" as opposed to a "combo" unit comprising amp and speaker(s) in one cabinet, and was capable of 300 watts output at a time when most amplifiers could not exceed 100 watts output, making the SVT an important amp for bands playing music ...
Jess Oliver (born Oliver Jespersen) (January 20, 1926 – June 30, 2011) [1] was a musician, an inventor, electrician and amplifier repairman best known as the vice-president of Ampeg and patent holder for many of Ampeg's most successful products, most notably the Portaflex B-15.
The US brand Ampeg imported British-made Burns guitars for a short time prior to the Baldwin takeover. Apart from the pickguard badge ('Ampeg by Burns of London') these were exactly the same as their British counterparts. [5] The company was renamed Baldwin-Burns (latterly Baldwin) and released three amplifiers at the June 1965 NAMM Convention. [2]