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Dating Fender Tube Amps by Serial Number, Part 3 by Greg Gagliano Copyright 1999, 20th Century Guitar Magazine. I know, I know. It’s been over a year since Part 2 of this series was printed, but that’s because I’ve been busy collecting data. For those readers who may have joined us recently, I am doing some Fender amp research along with Devin Riebe and Greg Huntington. Our research efforts are now in their fourth year (will it ever end?). Part 1 and Part 2 of this series can be found in the March 1997 and November 1997 issues of TCG, respectively. Again, I would like to thank everyone who responded to our request for data as outlined in Parts 1 and 2. The main focus of this article will be speakers found in Fender amps, but before we get into that topic let’s go over a few other areas first. Early silver face amps: Part 2 went into this topic in some detail, but since that article was printed, I have been asked a lot of questions about this subject. There still seems to be some confusion about how to distinguish between a silverface Fender amp that has the desirable AB763 circuit and one that has the less-desirable AB568/ AC568 circuit. Part of the confusion stems from the lack of any AB568 or AC568 tube charts. Fender never printed any since there were plenty of leftover AB763 tube charts available and these were used well into 1969. Although the cosmetics changed, the circuits remained unaltered from the blackface circuits on the earliest silverface amps. The date of the change from the blackface circuit to the CBS silverface circuit was dependent on the model, but most of the amps that were modified received the circuit change by mid-year of 1968. The cosmetics of the silverface amps during the transition between circuits was also in transition making it difficult to determine circuit type on cosmetics alone. The amps during this period could have the earliest.
Dating Fender Tube Amps by Serial Number, Part I by Greg Gagliano Copyright 1997, 20th Century Guitar Magazine. Boy, that title got your attention didn't it? Well, we'll get to good parts, but first a little background information is in order. After reading Teagle and Sprung's excellent Fender amp book, I took them up on their challenge that maybe someday someone will compile enough serial numbers so that Fender amps can be dated that way. So began my quest. I contacted several Fenders collectors and dealers who were kind enough to supply me with data. I turned to the Internet to do some more networking which resulted in a major turn of events as I met two individuals who have become instrumental partners in this project: Greg Huntington and Devin Riebe. Greg is a long time Fender collector who is very knowledgeable not only in the details, but in the circuitry as well. His particular area of expertise is in Fender amps made from about 19 Devin runs Doc's Music in Springfield, Missouri and his interest lies in the woodie and tweed Fender amps made from 19 Greg and Devin's experience meshed well with mine since I'm essentially the blackface/silverface amp guy (amps made between 19 ) in the group. Additionally, Greg and Devin also had data that they had been collecting from Fender amps for years. We combined all of our information into a computerized database for this project and for the past 18 months have been slowly (sadly, very slowly) gathering information that we collect ourselves as well as from other people. Now it's time for a commercial. We need your Fender amp data! Everything is confidential, we don't make record of who owns what amp in the database. What we need is the following: 1) Model name 2) Model number on the tube chart 3) Date code letters on the tube chart 4) Speaker codes (if speaker is original) 5).
Bandmaster 5 C7, 5 D7 (tweed) 0001 to to Bandmaster 5 E7 (tweed) S00001 to S S00350 to S S01100 to S S01700 to S S02500 to S Bandmaster 5 G7, 6 G7 (brown) 00001 to Bandmaster 6 G7, 6 G7- A (blonde) 00001 to to to to Bandmaster AA763, AB763 (blackface) A00001 to A A01400 to A A07700 to A A16000 to A A20000 to A Bandmaster AB763, AC568 (silverface) A26000 to A A28000 to A A33000 to A A34000 to A Bandmaster Reverb AA768, AA1069, AA270, TFL5005 (silverface) A31000 to A A35000 to A A45000 to A A48000 to A A54000 to A A59000 to A A66000 to A A75000 to A A78000 to A Bassman 5 B6 (tweed) 0001 to to to Bassman 5 D6, 5 D6- A (tweed) 0600 to Bassman 5 E6, 5 E6- A (tweed) 0100 to BM00001 to BM BM00550 to BM BM01200 to BM Bassman 5 F6, 5 F6- A (tweed) BM00001 to BM BM00400 to BM BM01500 to BM BM03100 to BM Bassman 6 G6, 6 G6- A, 6 G6- B (blonde) BP00100 to BP BP01100 to BP BP05000 to BP BP08400 to BP Bassman AA864, AA165, AB165 (blackface) A00100 to A A03800 to A A15000 to A A24000 to A Bassman AB165, AC568, AA270, AA371 (silverface) A32000 to A A39000 to A A48000 to A A58000 to A Bronco AB764 (silverface) A19000 to A A20000 to A A25000 to A A28000 to A A29000 to A.
Fender made thousands of Vibro Champs between 19 The exact number has not been determined. However, the date a particular Vibro Champ was made can be determined through a variety of sources. Cabinet Sticker By far the most reliable way to date your amp is to look for the month/date code stamped on the tube layout sticker on the inside of the cabinet. Vibro Champs made prior to by 1968 have this feature. Months and years were assigned the letter codes below: Code Year Code Month N 1964 A January O 1965 B February P 1966 C March Q 1967 D April E May F June G July H August I September J October K November L December Serial Number The serial number on the back also gives clues to the age of the amp: A00100 to A02000 – 1964 A01200 to A08100 – 1965 A08100 to A17000 – 1966 A16000 to A21000 – 1967 A20000 to A26000 – 1968 A25000 to A28000 – 1969 A28000 to A29000 – 1970 A29000 to A32000 – 1971 A32000 to A35000 – 1972 A33000 to A39000 – 1973 A39000 to A42000 – 1974 A42000 to A51000 – 1975 A51000 to A53000 – 1976 A6 + 5-digits – 1976 A7 + 5-digits – 1977 A8 + 5-digits – 1978 A9 + 5-digits – 1979 F9 + 5-digits – 1979, 1980 F0 + 5-digits – 1980 F1 + 5-digits – 1981 F2 + 5-digits – 1982 Export models had serial numbers that started with a “ B” rather than with an “ A”. Transformer / Speaker / Pot Codes American-made electronic components of that era usually have codes to indicate manufacturer and date of production. These are usually in the form of a six-digit number with the following formatting scheme: MMMYWW The first three digits represent the manufacturer code, the next digit represents the year of production and the last two digits represent the week of production. Thus as an example 606452 is a transformer code: 606 tells us it is a Schumacher transformer made in either 1964 or 1974 and and it was built on the last week of December. If the transformer was.
Analog Man Vintage guitar effects Please feel free to use info from this web site on ebay or other websites, but please give credit to analogman.com, thanks! An Ibanez Tube Screamer is an overdrive/distortion pedal that is mild compared to many, but allows the true sound of the guitar and player's technique to come through. The most popular use of a tube screamer is to push a tube amp to make it overdrive more, but they sound good through almost anything. If you are a geek like we are, check out this awesome article Tube Screamer®s Secret for some cool info about why the tube screamer circuit sounds so good. TS-808 The first Tube Screamer was the green TS-808 overdrive pro in the late '70s. It was preceded by the Orange Overdrive and green Overdrive- II which came in narrower boxes without the battery cover, and the reddish Overdrive- II which had a box very similar to the TS-808. The lighter green OD-855 Overdrive- II is also in the TS-808 style box and has a circuit which is similar to the 808 - the board part numbers only differ by one digit. The overdrive and OD- II had a different, much more distorted, fuzzy circuit. The TS-808 and its generation have small square chrome on/off touch-buttons. Almost all TS-808's sound great. There were some TS-808s made in the 1979 period, mostly for other than USA markets, that came in a narrower box. These have a bottom plate that unscrews to change the battery like an MXR pedal, no plastic battery cover. This narrow TS-808 had a different circuit. It uses two 1458 chips which are the 1st version of the low-tech dual op-amp. Also the LEVEL knob on these is labeled BALANCE and the external 9 V power jack is next to the input jack. It used the same case as the earlier OVERDRIVE and OVERDRIVE- II pedals which used stomp switches. These had a circuit board labeled OD-801. This board can also be found in some old Maxon OD-808 OVERDRIVE.
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