Ampeg B-15N and its relatives

#21
It was bizarre reading them back to back.

If Aspen says "if you have the early tubes in your SVT, by all means change immediately to 6550s" -- and he does -- then Ken says "if you have 6550s in your SVT, by all means you'll want to change back to the early tubes".

Aspen also championed the B-15S as a great amp that's less farty than the originals, while Ken turns up his nose at it and says the earlier ones are more toneful (of course those are the ones he worked on at Ampeg).

After trying both I decided the B-15S with its extra power and mass -- physical and musical -- was the one for me. Though like I said, an original B-15N (or the 50-watt B-15ND or B-18) would look and sound great sitting next to it!

John
 
#22
Congrats Jneil for your new baby! Hope it serves well?!
Ah, Psycho is back - welcome man!
It is confusing that two maybe most famous guys writting about tube amps have so different opinions - of course we all do have but such diversity is mind bogling. I have read just the Pittman book and would like to get the other one too.
I have been so far quite satisfied with the sound and varity of it with the B-15S and can take it to gigs too with cab simulation (which as sent back to tech guy) and mic.
How about these guys and SVT (I know how Psycho feels for SVT)?
Thanks again,
- JeeerrryH -
PS. What about the small bro SB-12 (I have '62 - what a cuty pie)? I like it all over - nice warm sound for practice at home. Just edited this for your opinions?

[This message has been edited by JerryH (edited July 14, 2000).]
 
#23
Are you saying you take yours to gigs without the cabinet? Do you have to make a special adapter for the speaker cable (with the safety shutoff)?

I gotta say that the fliptop cab design is cool and all, but this thing is heavy enough that I'd prefer to lug the two pieces seperately (assuming I was planning to lug this thing around a lot, which I'm not). On the other hand, compared to an SVT, or even a V4...

John
 
#24
Nope bro,

What I meant with cab simulation is to use a sort of DI that is hooked up to speaker out (the B15S does have one for extr. cab so I am using this one) and then the own cab as a monitor to myself and others and the DI to PA mixer. It should be enough for the stage eventhough we are little bit too loud sometimes, but that is gonna change with our own dedicated soundman. The trick is to get the power amp growl to PA without having feedback problems?!

Thanks,
-JerryH-
 
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