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Picked it up for a steal. Low hour tubes, recently re-capped and had the original cabs with it too (though I
have no idea what to do with them). This thing makes a killer bass amp especially with the VI (Great Fender
reverb). I'm stoked to try it with my full bass stack later this week. Not the greatest with guitar stock but
since it has 4 channels I'm surely going to mod at least two of them to twin/deluxe tone stacks and all 4
channels to guitar impedance input. For a clean, LOUD amp it's hard to argue picking it up, especially for
less than two bones. Pictures in the next few days.
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Changed out the V3 12AT7. The Chinese 12AT7 tube that was in there sucks. New EH 12AT7 is much
better. Reverb tank may still get replaced still but new tube is much better. Can't wait to change the input
resistors. I'm really looking forward to the Twin tone stack mod too.
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Got to use it on bass with a full band with both cabs. Way louder than I expected. It doesn't do really clean
for bass but man the tone is fantastic. I'm gonna do some tube swapping and a few mods this upcoming
week. I'd really like to use it at our next gig. It does that "grindy" bass tone to a tee and takes distortion
pedals really well. Gotta love weird, cheap vintage finds like this.
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Nice. I'd like some pics too. The only time I've ever seen/heard one of these in person, the keyboardist from
Cymbals Eat Guitars (Small Sound/Big Sound guy) was playing through one. He sounded killer. He kind of
had his rig set up to emulate a kind of Kevin Shields glidey guitar sound, but he also had some more
traditional Rhodes sounds. Either way, the amp sounded good.
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I had a 1971 PA100 for awhile and it was an interesting amp. Like a beefier Twin in a head. It kinda sorta
grunts a little too when you hit the preamps hard. These are excellent inexpensive pedal platforms and great
bass amps. I could see someone who played a lot of different instruments liking this amp. You can have your
guitar rig, pedal steel, Fender Rhodes, bass, etc. all in one.
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Not as clean as some but internally it's pristine and the Tolex is great. Mostly just oxidation on the faceplate
and hardware.
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My girlfriend uses a PA100 for bass and guitar- she had the inputs modified on 1 and 2 for guitar/bass
impedance, and that's all she's needed to make it sound awesome with both (not that the possibility of using
the different channels for different tone stacks isn't awesome).
One thing that blew me away is that one time she was using a cab the venue supplied, instead of her own,
which was one of the newer marshall 4x12's, and while "it sounded like a marshall" is probably a stretch, it
certainly sounded like an amp designed to overdive pretty hard, and pretty early. So... I would keep in mind
how much a cab can effect all of that too.
They tried to give me advice, down at the record shop. I said "Sit down boys, this may come as a SHOCK.
But alls I listen to, it's all freedom rock."
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The 135 is the ultra linear so it wont break up as much as the 100 but I do agree that speakers and cabs make
a big difference. When I run it through a nice 212 it sounds quite like a twin. I got the chance to use it on a
gig last night for bass with my Ashdown stack and It sounded great. Was plenty loud but I do wish I could
get it to clean up a bit. All of my parts and tubes will be here this week so hopefully I'll have it all modded by
my next nineties cover gig. I'll just use my old SS rig for the traditional cover band pickup gigs. All about
clean on those.
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Got one channel modded today. I went with a custom Fender tone stack. I laid it out using Duncan amps
awesome tone stack calculator. What a fantastic tool. I went with a fairly flat tone stack with the mid control
at 800hz. It sounds incredible. Beautiful clean tone. I'm certainly not done yet. Up next is a channel of
traditional Blackface tone stack. After that I think I will leave one stock but with mid control (the mid stack
is there just set with a resistor). If anyone cares to see the schematic I used I'll post it.
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