Fender Bassbreaker 007 combo vs 15 Combo

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drumrm

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So I've got the Fender Bassbreaker 007 and played today for a couple of hours. My initial opinion: it's a 7 watt little beast.

I've owned Vintage Champs and Vibro-champs (blackface and silverface), vintage Blackface Princeton Reverb, 57' Champ Tweed Clone, Clapton Custom Shop Vibro champ, Marshall Class 5, Lil' Dawg Amps Wonderdawg and Blackstar HT-1 in an attempt to find the perfect grab and go amp, good for home use.

To me the Bassbreaker 007 has the most variety of tones and sounds great at quiet levels as well as cranked, in my opinion I can totally gig with this at small bars and restaurants. No need for a dirt pedal with this one and cleans up very well using your guitar volume knob on the right amp settings. You will not get sparkly cleans but you can get nice cleans with just enough soul.

You can also get in your face dirty with this one which you can't with most others I've tried unless you are ready the get your eardrum blown off or just not enough dirt.

My only complain is the fact that does not have reverb but also makes it much more interesting sounding. The 15 watt version is too loud for my purpose, also has Hall Reverb instead of Spring reverb and no footswitch which the 007 does. I hooked up my Catalinbread Topenga Spring Reverb to the 007 and I can get really killer sounds.

Overall, so far I'm very satisfied with it.

Will post pictures tomorrow.
So I've got the Fender Bassbreaker 007 and played today for a couple of hours. My initial opinion: it's a 7 watt little beast.

I've owned Vintage Champs and Vibro-champs (blackface and silverface), vintage Blackface Princeton Reverb, 57' Champ Tweed Clone, Clapton Custom Shop Vibro champ, Marshall Class 5, Lil' Dawg Amps Wonderdawg and Blackstar HT-1 in an attempt to find the perfect grab and go amp, good for home use.

To me the Bassbreaker 007 has the most variety of tones and sounds great at quiet levels as well as cranked, in my opinion I can totally gig with this at small bars and restaurants. No need for a dirt pedal with this one and cleans up very well using your guitar volume knob on the right amp settings. You will not get sparkly cleans but you can get nice cleans with just enough soul.

You can also get in your face dirty with this one which you can't with most others I've tried unless you are ready the get your eardrum blown off or just not enough dirt.

My only complain is the fact that does not have reverb but also makes it much more interesting sounding. The 15 watt version is too loud for my purpose, also has Hall Reverb instead of Spring reverb and no footswitch which the 007 does. I hooked up my Catalinbread Topenga Spring Reverb to the 007 and I can get really killer sounds.

Overall, so far I'm very satisfied with it.

Will post pictures tomorrow.



Hi teleman78


I’m new to the forum and I noticed your post about the Basebreaker 007.

I see that you own a Mesa Boogie Mark V 25 and a Basebreaker 007.


I own a BB007 combo also and get a great sound, but most of the time I run it into my Mesa Boogie TA 1x12 cab with the stock blackshadow speaker and get an even fuller sound.

I was wondering if you have ever run the BB007 into your 2x10 cab or any other cab that you have also run the Mark V 25 into? I am asking this because I am kind of wondering how the BB007 compares to the Mark V 25 crunch mode when it’s set to the 10watt setting?
 

drumrm

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Hi teleman78


I’m new to the forum and I noticed your post about the Basebreaker 007.

I see that you own a Mesa Boogie Mark V 25 and a Basebreaker 007.


I own a BB007 combo also and get a great sound, but most of the time I run it into my Mesa Boogie TA 1x12 cab with the stock blackshadow speaker and get an even fuller sound.

I was wondering if you have ever run the BB007 into your 2x10 cab or any other cab that you have also run the Mark V 25 into? I am asking this because I am kind of wondering how the BB007 compares to the Mark V 25 crunch mode when it’s set to the 10watt setting?


Also, I asking more about how they compare tone wise more so than volume.
 

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Hi teleman78


I’m new to the forum and I noticed your post about the Basebreaker 007.

I see that you own a Mesa Boogie Mark V 25 and a Basebreaker 007.


I own a BB007 combo also and get a great sound, but most of the time I run it into my Mesa Boogie TA 1x12 cab with the stock blackshadow speaker and get an even fuller sound.

I was wondering if you have ever run the BB007 into your 2x10 cab or any other cab that you have also run the Mark V 25 into? I am asking this because I am kind of wondering how the BB007 compares to the Mark V 25 crunch mode when it’s set to the 10watt setting?

Reviving an old thread....

Sorry I just saw this post, I did tried the amp through the 2x10 cab and it sounds ridiculously good, so much so that I’ve been wanting to hunt down the head version.

Since I’ve have had the 007 combo for a while, I’d like to point out that the stock Speaker is not very good I’d you want to gig the amp. so I did swap the Stock speaker and have done some gigs with it.

First it had a WGS G10C but with a 30oz magnet it made the amp very heavy. It did sound very good and big sounding however made the amp too heavy so I had to swap it.

Right now it has a Celestion G10 creamback and it is much lighter in weight and it compliments the amp amazingly much better than the WGS Imo. Right now it feels like a perfect mini Marshall 1x10 Combo.

I hope this helps...
 
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