I got this 1980 Bassman 70 for free when I bought a pair of empty 112 cabs from a local seller. He had it in pieces in his basement and was clearing out stuff in preparation for a move. Someone had messed up a switch repair in it and it wasn't working so they pulled a few tubes for use in another amp and left it a pile of parts.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/BGnVvhl.jpg[/img]
It only took about 5 minutes to get that sorted out and fixed. I put a new set of JJ 6L6GC's and a 12AT7 in it to replace the missing tubes, fired it up and it sounds great.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ijRTRoS.jpg[/img]
Being an ultra linear amp I figured it to be clean all the way up the dial and it pretty much is the pedal platform amp I expected. A couple of days ago I hooked it up to my attenuator, cranked the normal channel's volume and the master up to 7 and hit the front end with an old Route 66 OD which is the closest thing I have to a Tube Screamer then ran the attenuator's line out into my interface so I wouldn't be shaking the walls of my house at 5 a.m. Holy smokes does this amp sing! :W
[img]https://i.imgur.com/BGnVvhl.jpg[/img]
It only took about 5 minutes to get that sorted out and fixed. I put a new set of JJ 6L6GC's and a 12AT7 in it to replace the missing tubes, fired it up and it sounds great.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ijRTRoS.jpg[/img]
Being an ultra linear amp I figured it to be clean all the way up the dial and it pretty much is the pedal platform amp I expected. A couple of days ago I hooked it up to my attenuator, cranked the normal channel's volume and the master up to 7 and hit the front end with an old Route 66 OD which is the closest thing I have to a Tube Screamer then ran the attenuator's line out into my interface so I wouldn't be shaking the walls of my house at 5 a.m. Holy smokes does this amp sing! :W
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