Product: Ampeg B-115
Price Paid: USD 800 USED
Submitted
11/30/2006
at
11:11am
by
Music mountie
Features
:
9
The Amp is a Made in USA 1972 B-115 combo with 120W (RMS) and 240RMS peak. One 15" speaker with a sound port. All plywood contruction (no particle board here. The amp has two channels and an effects loop allowing you to hook up exterior effects, drive another amp, hook into a recording board or PA, or a tuner while plugging directly into the amp input (no loss of signal).
I use a simple A/B box to plug into both channels and get preset tones and volume (like channel switching)which I optimize for the two pickups on my bass.
It is very loud and easily keeps up with a loud band. When I add an additional speaker cabinet, it shakes the neighborhood.
The amp has casters and steel depressions to allow it to be stacked.
The grill is removable and uses four velcro attachments. Front loading speaker. Very long power cable (three prong) with two brackets on rear for winding up the cord
Each channel has Volume, Bass, Middle, and Treble as well as one 3-position switch for the Midrange knob to allow three different bands of tone shaping and one treble boost switch. Very versatile tone shaping. The front is aluminum with black silk screening
The rear chassis has a 3 prong power supply, two speaker output jacks, the lien in and line out jacks
Sound Quality
:
10
The amp sounds amazing with my jazz and precision basses. I have a number of tube amps and prefer this amp I play a range of styles and with the versatile tone shaping and effects loop, I can get any tone I need.
It is very quiet noisewise and suitable for recording.
Reliability
:
10
The amp is 33 years old and still works like new. Ampegs are highly collectible for their quality and staying power. Heavy duty steell chassis and plywood constuction.
Massive heat sinks in the rear to keep the electronics cool.
Biggest power transformer I have ever seen!!
Very reliable.
Customer Support
:
8
The schematic is included and attached to the top of the chassis. Ampeg support is very good - they have a big name and are one of the last major US manufacturers.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
I have been playing 30 years and own a number of basses and tube amps.
The ampeg is the most versatile and still fits in my car.
Great amp. Highly recommended
Product: Ampeg B-115
Price Paid: US $50
Submitted
03/16/1997
at
05:30pm
by
Keith M
Features
:
5
Two channels, vol bass mid and treble controles ultra high switch, but no ultra low. external speaker and line out jacks. 120 watt solid state in a large (16" deep) sealed cabinet and unfortunatly carpeted ..mine came with an Eden 15 the 410 had 4 10s. not bad sounding for solid state would make a good practice or first amp for some one and like all ampegs the schematic is glued in the amp this one is on the chassis cover
Sound Quality
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5
It had a nice smooth sound nothing special but not as bad as most solid state amps Not realy loud enough to be used with a loud band unless miked.
Reliability
:
5
I got it "as is " with a blown speaker and noisey channel 2 (it was an op amp) I repaired the whole thing in about 30 minutes including trouble shooting channel 2 the 410 has 4, 32 ohm speakers in parallel for 8 ohms replacing on of those would be difficult to say the least.. the bad op amp was what caused the speaker to blow.. the amp will operate with out the op amp just at lower volumes so you may want to keep a spare I would buy another if it was priced right...
Customer Support
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No Opinion
This amp was built befor Ampeg became part of St Louis Musical Group, and they don't even have a schmatic for it.
Overall Rating
:
7
Over all I give it an ok; sounds better than the Peavy, Crate, Gorilla, 100 watt solid state amps. I traded mine on a 65 Reverbo-Rocket because it didn't compare with my other Ampeg bass amps, But it would do realy nicely for some one just starting out or on a tight budget. fyi the place I traded it to sold it within a week.
