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Fender Bassbreaker

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The Fender Ass Breaker---uh, Bassbreaker series is getting a lot of press. +100 TAG points for anyone who posts gut shots.
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Re: Fender Bassbreaker

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Well,
I'd have to actually BUY one to do that! :roll: The only two of the series that seem to get good reviews are the 15 watt and 45 watt. The 7 watt has diddle for features and seems to be kind of a one trick pony. The 18/30 is just bizarre in it's concept and again, no features. The 15 is the only one that has reverb or loop, what's Fender about that?

I think all but the 15 are poorly conceived.

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I played the 7, 15 and 45 in GC. Hated the 7 - cleans were boring and dirt was awful. The 15 was not much better. The 45 actually sounded OK, but nothing I'd want buy. YMMV
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Bassbreaker 15 guts...

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...last one.
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Thanks!

What's the failure?

Looks hard to get at the tube PCB...
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Re: Fender Bassbreaker

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I watched the Fender publicity video... I was not inspired by any of the tones captured in the video.
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I liked the 45 in the Anderton's demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsvjOLTFGs
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Re: Fender Bassbreaker

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So it's a '59 Bassman with el34s and all ax7s? Isn't that a JTM45? They stole it back!!! :o
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Smokebreak wrote:So it's a '59 Bassman with el34s and all ax7s? Isn't that a JTM45? They stole it back!!! :o
Yeah, and Leo Fender got it from a Western Electric manual. So, he didn't invent it either. 8)
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Re: Fender Bassbreaker

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Just out of curiousity does anyone happen to know what manual it was? The only one i could find consisted of tube data.
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