I was wondering if anyone has played through one of these? I was able to pickup a very nice one for $20 today! The guy on Craigslist didn't know what he had because these are going for anywhere from $200 to $500 on Ebay. Will just jumper out 2nd input to chorus/delay/verb pedals then to 2nd amp. It was only offered with one single coil pickup at the neck f. This will will be mainly be just home use, low/med volume type thing as the dry amp in a wet/dry setup. The Fender Musicmaster II was a short-lived transitional model during the CBS takeover that featured the same design as the original Musicmaster (a 3/4 scale student model introduced in 1956) but with a regular 25.5' scale length. This one is the more desireable model too because it has the on/off switch instead of being in the volume pot and uses 6V6 tubes instead of the 6BQ5's. Got it in my head i want to try a Fender Musicmaster bass amp for guitar, convince me why or why not to buy. It has one 12AX7 and a rather weird phase inverter utilizing a tranformer? I was able to locate a schematic online. It also has a plywood cabinet and is not the particle board version as well as a blue label Fender 12" speaker. sounds pretty damn cool for 12 watts and is a hand wired little monster. It starts breaking up nicely around 7 with my strat. how can you sleep at night, knowing you robbed the poor stupid bastard? even if I tell her I didn't spend but $20 she's going to say "WHY!!! did you get another amp!!!" What'cha think about this deal? I believe that it was well worth the $20 I spent on her. I'm kind of puzzled by the plywood and off/on switch combination. They would not necessarily overlap, as the plywood stuff would have only been the very early few years, and the separate off/on switch was some years after they had switched to particle board cabs. It is quite possible you have a parts amp, which is not a bad thing. One had the real wood cab, but alas, some rocket scientist had bolted rack ears on it at some point, and there were holes in the side of the cab. It also had the removeable baffle instead of the glued in baffle. I would have liked to have saved that cab, but my particle board was in better shape, and my chassis had been gone through by a very talented amp tech (RIP, Matt) and the buzz that frequently plagues these amps had been resolved. The chassis of MMB amps and Champs are the same size, and are interchangeable, if you take into account the ohms difference (MMB = 8, Champ = 4, well, 3.2 but I'm not quibbling). It will probably end up being my only amp if (or most likely when) I have to sell my Champ for $$. Tell you what, since you don't want to make the wife angry, I'll buy that amp off you for what you paid. I was somewhat puzzled too seeing that the cabinet is plywood instead of the typical particle board of the later models. I haven't dated the thing yet but I assume it around a 1974-75 or 76 model year amp. The tube chart is definitely one from a later model with it showing the 6V6, 12AX7 configuration as opposed to the 6BQ5 type of the earlier models.
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