baldwinbass Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 (edited) I've had this valve combo since the late 70's, used for home practice only. I had it serviced for the first time in 2015, by Angel Music. Has original 15" speaker and goes loud for 15 watts. I'm not an amp expert but can see hand wiring, and the EL84s are Mullard. There are some signs of minor cosmetic wear,which you'd expect on an amp of this age (my children tweaked the WEM logo, hence the loss of paint). Included is an envelope I found pinned inside the chassis which contains the original operating instructions, original wiring diagram and some WEM promotional material. Collection is preferable, no couriers, but might be persuaded to meet/deliver south of M25 in Hampshire or West Sussex. Basschatters are welcome to try before you buy, cash on collection/delivery, sorry no trades. Edited June 11, 2016 by baldwinbass
Happy Jack Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 That's about as clean an example as I've ever seen. Superb amps these.
three Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 Amazing amps and fabulous to see one survive in such good condition. These sound brilliant - bright and clean but with a lovely responsive, fat and clear low-end. Great to see something of such vintage
FinnDave Posted April 23, 2016 Posted April 23, 2016 Is this still available? Our harp player is interested, if you would like to pm me your contact details, I'll get him to getting in touch with you.
FinnDave Posted April 30, 2016 Posted April 30, 2016 Did our harp man Jay Myrdal ever get in touch? I passed your details on to him.
baldwinbass Posted April 30, 2016 Author Posted April 30, 2016 I haven't heard from Jay - maybe the new price will help?
FinnDave Posted April 30, 2016 Posted April 30, 2016 (edited) Good, we really want him to get a small valve amp so he doesn't keep blowing us all of the stage with with his Bassman 50 combo! Edited April 30, 2016 by FinnDave
baldwinbass Posted May 17, 2016 Author Posted May 17, 2016 Price has just gone down.............and if anyone's interested in making a reasonable offer.....
Twincam Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 (edited) [quote name='three' timestamp='1460935072' post='3030003'] Amazing amps and fabulous to see one survive in such good condition. These sound brilliant - bright and clean but with a lovely responsive, fat and clear low-end. Great to see something of such vintage [/quote] Mine definitely isn't that clean, it has valve grit/grind and just a hint of valve od to it from the get go, as the note decays. Then when pushed it really overdrives very sweetly. It can go bright but does have a fat low end and are as said very responsive. They make fantastic guitar amps especially the bass models with the celestion gm15 speaker (all models guitar and bass only differ in speaker). And guitarists do gig them. So might be worth also advertising to guitar player too. Famously Noel Gallagher used one for both recording and as part of his live setup (guitar version 12" speaker). These are very good bass studio/recording amps might get away with other quieter scenarios too. Although they are a very loud 15-17w. Prices of these seem to be slowly creeping up. I paid a bit more for mine than the new asking price of this one and I don't regret it one bit, despite having to do some work on it. Future classic. Edited May 17, 2016 by Twincam
baldwinbass Posted May 17, 2016 Author Posted May 17, 2016 Yes, you can't beat a good valve amp for a variety of tonal possibilities and this is no exception.
FinnDave Posted May 22, 2016 Posted May 22, 2016 Sorry about our harp man, he really needs a smaller valve combo but refuse to believe that his modded Fender Bassman combo is too loud even at the lowest volume settings. In fact we have taken to telling him to turn it down before he even gets it out of the car!! He told me he'd been in touch with you but decided he didn't need it. Doh!
baldwinbass Posted May 22, 2016 Author Posted May 22, 2016 Well, not to worry - maybe the price drop will change his mind!
baldwinbass Posted June 7, 2016 Author Posted June 7, 2016 Here's another price drop before I consider withdrawing
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