I'm worried about a lot of buzz.ĭoes it sound better with a 15" or a 12"(and would I have to do any work to make it back to a 12") and what wattage is the amp? I'll retube and maybe change speakers (suggestions welcome, I need more headroom). I'm also worried of how it will sound with single coils cos that's all I play and this **** store didn't have one tele with single coils and the 3 strats they had were garbage. Was it super popular for people to put 15" speakers in these amps or is this just a coincidence that all the ones I've seen had it? Does it take work or does a 15" just fit right in because the open back cab is so big? The speaker connecting wire connectors looked all rusty. But the one I played today had a 15" speaker in it (blue label Jensen) and it looked old. It seems they were made to be 1x12 stock (all of them). According to a couple of you guys and this: In fact I've seen 3 of these amps and they all had 15" speakers. He said it's in great condition and I'm waiting for pics to come in my email. The guy said it's a 6v6 version with the separate on/switch (which I prefer PT wise). Plus I get 10% off if I buy it by tomorrow. There wasn't much headroom but if I cranked the amp and rolled back the guitar volume it was twangy and sweet but not very loud. I could only try it with a humbucker tele (I only play single coils) but sounded great. Lots of rust and cobwebs and a huge random screw through the chassis. ![]() Unlike the Duo Sonic, the neck pickup is a humbucker and the single coil is the bridge pickup.So I was about to purchase a champ 12 (over the phone) and stumbled across a 70s musicmaster bass amp. It features 2 pickups, a single coil and a humbucker, and is the same as the 2020 Duo-Sonic other than the pickup configuration. In 2020, Fender released a special version of the Musicmaster for the Shawn Mendes Music Foundation. ![]() The Musicmaster was produced until 1982 when it, the Bronco and the Mustang were dropped in favor of the newer Fender Bullet models. This causes many modern surviving Musicmasters from this period to suffer from paint flaking off the body. Certain models of the Musicmaster, especially from between 19, were finished with a coat that reacted negatively with the base coat. These larger pickguards encompassed the entire control cavity which saved production costs for Fender. Later in the 70s the Musicmaster in its third incarnation was redesigned using the Bronco body and pickguard shapes. Around this same time the Fender Maverick was introduced using similar practices but with leftover Electric XII bodies and necks with Mustang bridges. In 1969, the Fender Swinger, a particularly interesting byproduct of this surplus was produced using the Musicmaster hardware, electrics, scratchplate, and the seldom ordered 22.5-inch necks, but with a modified Fender Bass V body. The Musicmaster in its second incarnation was still sold well into the 1970s however, using leftover parts until supplies ran out. The redesigned Musicmaster II alongside its stablemate the Duo-Sonic II lasted through 1969 before both models were dropped from production in favor of the more deluxe Mustang and new Fender Bronco. All three models were offered with the option of a 24-inch scale and 22-fret neck or a 22.5-inch scale and 21-fret neck the 24-inch scale proved to be the most popular of these options. The Mustang body was larger and slightly offset, and was fitted with a plastic pickguard but with the volume and tone controls mounted on a separate metal plate. In 1964, following the release of the Fender Mustang, both the Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic were redesigned using Mustang neck and body blanks. ![]() ![]() At this time, the Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic both received a plastic pickguard in place of the previous anodized aluminum one, and a two-piece maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. There was one major redesign of these two Musicmaster-bodied guitars, in 1959 when the entire Fender catalog was updated. The Duo-Sonic and Musicmaster also shared a single-piece maple neck and fingerboard, with a 22.5 inch scale length and 21 frets. Production of the Musicmaster began in late April of that year, using a body routed for two pickups to be common to the Duo-Sonic, which followed a little more than two months later. Prototypes were made in early 1956, followed by sales literature announcing both models. Musicians such as David Byrne and Liz Phair used a Fender Musicmaster.ĭesign work on the Musicmaster-and its two-pickup variant Duo-Sonic-began in late 1955 following a request from Fender Sales. It was the first 3/4 scale student-model guitar Fender produced.Ī Musicmaster Bass model was also put on the market. The Fender Musicmaster is a solid body electric guitar produced by Fender. 1 proprietary single coil, offset variantĭesert Sand, Shaded Sunburst, Red-Mahogany, Olympic White, Daphne Blue, Dakota Red
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