![]() I’ve used it for bass live with small combos and for recording with great success. I’ve also found that with the speaker swap (I’m using a RI Jensen C12N) it can be a very nice, musical small bass amp after all. Fender sold thousands of them, and they sound great. And after ’65, not many people were buying Musicmasters and Duo-Sonics the Mustang was king. This could be in part because it has a tad more headroom because of its solid state rectifier. The earlier 22½-inch scale length Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic models were still available, along with a ¾ size Mustang, but orders for shorter-scale models were very few and far between. I have a 1964 Fender Princeton that I LOVE but in all honestly this Musicmaster gets more use. I use this for nearly all of my non-full-bore rock stuff. The whole thing resides in a Champ chassis and it is super easy to “grab it and go”. ![]() It also utilizes a transformer for a phase inverter. It puts out 12 or so watts using – depending on version – either 2 6AQ5 or 2 6V6 power tubes with one 12ax7 for the preamp. On the other hand, outside of the context of a bass amp this thing is pretty awesome. My guess is that this amp was the source of great disappointment and frustration for a lot of fledgling bass players trying to sit in with other fledgling rockers. ![]() The stock speaker and power transformer are equipped to do nothing but complain when you plug a bass in and turn it up. It’s a pretty odd amp but when you consider who it was marketed at – the beginner bass player – it’s even odder. MMB guts factory stuffed inside a Champ chassis. for sale > musical instruments - by owner post Posted about a month ago Fender Musicmaster Bass Amp - 625 (Eugene) © craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap google map condition: good delivery available make / manufacturer: Fender model name / number: Musicmaster Bass 1975 Fender Musicmaster Bass Amp. I replaced the speaker, the filter caps and other electrolytics, added a fuse and fuse holder, removed the little blue “death cap”, and rewired the power cord. It was 100% original including the cheap, leaking filter caps. Seth Carmody told me about his, which has slightly different tubes than what mine came with.My 'new' 1971 MM arrived with a pair of RCA 'Black Label' (new term to me) 6V6s. This Musicmaster bass amp came to me as part of a trade for some amp repair and restoration I did for a friend. I figured (after reading all the HC reviews) that there must be others using a Fender Musicmaster Bass amp for a guitar amp.
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