Re: '59 Fender Bassman & RI - Why?

[HASHBB@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 07-Jun-04 07:56:25 PM Central Daylight Time, 
raybeltran@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> The Bassman was designed as, you guessed it, a bass amp. And as such, 
> Fender
> tried to get it as CLEAN a sound as possible for obvious reasons, and as it
> was designed around their bass instruments. Fender amps have hotter inputs
> than, say, Gibson amps. The reason for this is that Fender pickups at the
> time were fairly weak...except for their bass guitars, which put out more
> signal than same-era guitars. So Fender built their Bassman to be their
> cleanest responding amp to accommodate the heavy input of an electric bass.
> As a result, when compared to other tweed amps of the same era (except maybe
> a Super), the Bassman is really the cleanest sounding of them all.
> 
> So why in the world would you want to use it for harp?
> 

Contrary to popular belief, not all harp players want a dirty 
distorted tone that breaks up. The bassman will give more
bass response(without distortion) and a cleaner sound at the
same time. Fatness of tone does not necessarily come from a dirty 
sounding amp.
HB