Fender Bassman 20 combo - your thoughts?

[OldGit]

Looking at a fairly well used Fender Bassman 20 valve combo. It's got a 12 inch goodmans replacement speaker ..

Someone I know has one for sale and I'm getting into harpin' too and these bassman things seem to be popular with harpies ...
It's bigger than my normal small gigs combo but the thought of a valve bassman is very GAS inducing ..

There's no hum or other odd noises other thna a crunchy jack, but I suspect the valves have not been changed .. Will it need a £200 valve replacement and rebuild operation?

What do you think?

[MB1]

MB1.
If it aint Broke!.........this, and a nice bullet mike ,and youll be doing Mark Feltham impressions in no time!.
.....if it dont work out!..... you could always use it, to play Bass Through!
Martin.

[OldGit]

[quote name='MB1' post='411976' date='Feb 17 2009, 02:02 PM']MB1.
If it aint Broke!.........this, and a nice bullet mike ,and youll be doing Mark Feltham impressions in no time!.
.....if it dont work out!..... you could always use it, to play Bass Through!
Martin.[/quote]



Ha ha yeah
Thanks

[OldGit]

Any more views before I go and negotiate?

[OldGit]

Anyone?

[Hamster]

Give Steve a ring. Not only is he a first class valve amp tech, he's also a pretty good harp player - [url="http://www.stevesamps.co.uk/"]http://www.stevesamps.co.uk/[/url]

[OldGit]

[quote name='Hamster' post='424375' date='Mar 3 2009, 06:18 PM']Give Steve a ring. Not only is he a first class valve amp tech, he's also a pretty good harp player - [url="http://www.stevesamps.co.uk/"]http://www.stevesamps.co.uk/[/url][/quote]


Thanks matey.
Rang Steve and he was indeed very helpful.
Seems the one I'm looking at is rather expensive for its condition so I'll go and negotiate...

Edited March 3, 2009 by OldGit