Music Man 112 SixtyFive 112 Combo

Has HILTON stecilled on both sides. No sign of Cokes or martinis, or any other fluids having leaked into it's insides. Two channels, one of which simply seems to bypass trem and reverb, and which I never use. Two inputs per channel. Early model, '74. I use it in Mom's basement, where I listen to mancow recordings/vacillations on important life or death issues. One day I hope to no longer have trouble changeing from a little boy to a real he-man.

Notes just pop out of it. I finally found one that enables you to turn every dial to 10. It sounds great at these levels, and despite what everyone says about insufficuent distortion capabilities, they are wrong. Blows me away. I play strats. It is not noisy. Fairly loud, but there are times you wish it were louder. I am not a versatile musician, and when I plug in to this amp, I find myself going where I never went before. A grail of sort, as the notes in the middle are not buried by the highs and lows. It sounds like demolished television studios, and TV people begging for mercy just before the building they work in explodes and then falls with incalculable force, killing them instantly.

Apparently it had been dropped from the Hilton stage a few times. All the knobs are broken. Finally I found a cracked solder joint inside, cracked like a fossil. Then I started to play.

There are people to go to, and people to avoid. The good ones will let you play it in front of them after they worked on it. The bad ones will wait until you called them, several times, spend a few minutes mucking around on the boards with solder, not test it, not let you test it, overcharge you for tubes you did not need, and then whisk you out the door. These amps are golden. Do not let them fall into the hands of the latter. A mucked up circuit board on a musicman amp is a bad thing in terms of infrastructure.

I have been playing since I gave up my solo career in porn. I would kill if it were stolen. I love that it hates bono.

This is a 1978 (possibly early 1979) model. The original Eminence 12" Alnico speaker (big square magnet) is date coded late 1978. Also, the '78 and '79 of this amp had no 12AX7 tube. Just a point of clirification here - none of these amps had "tube" preamps. The whole Music Man philosophy from the start was solid state preamps into tube power amps. The ones with a 12AX7 still did not have tube preamps - they were solid state too. As the model number indicates 1 12" speaker and 65 watts of output. Reverb and tremolo on channel 2 controllable via two button footswitch. Bright rocker switch and Deep rocker switch. Hi and Lo power (Lo designed to achieve distortion at lower volume). I've got 2 NOS Sylvania EL84 tubes in the output stage.

This thing produces beautiful clean tone. Hate to say it, but a Fender kind of sparkle (why not...it was Leo's company). Playing my '96 USA Stratocaster Plus w/ Lace pus through it, the clean sound makes me smile. Really nice reverb. Tremolo...cool but who really cares? This amp is SWEET for country pickin', blues, a little jazz and clean rock. As others say, you may need a pedal for good distortion sounds. If you look at the people who played Music Man back in the day, you'll see a who's who from Nashville, but also greats like Clapton.

This amp is 28 years old and looks to be built like a truck. All the parts appear to be original. Built to last and last.

Never had to deal. I do appreciate that Ernie Ball maintains the schematic of this and other old MM amps on their website even today.

Playing for 20 years. Used and owned lots of amps: Fenders, Peaveys, etc. Currently have a rack set up with Digitech 2120 going through Mesa 50/50 and a Rivera 212 Cab. I really like this Music Man 112 SixtyFive combo and I think it will always have a place among my gear.