^^^ No, no , no, he's wrong! The tone is in the caps! Isn't that what tube amp cork sniffers say?? Oh, wait..
Plenty of knobs to be found there...
^^^ No, no , no, he's wrong! The tone is in the caps! Isn't that what tube amp cork sniffers say?? Oh, wait..
That's not a bad idea at all. I obviously need to fix the power cord, but I'm not in a hurry to fix the aesthetic issues.
If I end up falling in love with it and keeping it long-term, I will probably end up fixing it up a bit. But for now, I'm just going to clean it with a wet rag and play it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. I have been trying to sell my near mint BC-60 for a month now. I have it listed on Craigslist, Reverb and eBay and the only offers I received have been international which I won't do. Have these amps fallen out of grace? I have it for local pick up but I live in the NYC tri-state area and I am not asking a lot. I'm baffled. Maybe the new models have taken away some of the interest? I thought it would be gone in days. It's super clean and even has all the brass knob caps. I don't get it!
Desperate times call for desperate measures. I have been trying to sell my near mint BC-60 for a month now. I have it listed on Craigslist, Reverb and eBay and the only offers I received have been international which I won't do. Have these amps fallen out of grace? I have it for local pick up but I live in the NYC tri-state area and I am not asking a lot. I'm baffled. Maybe the new models have taken away some of the interest? I thought it would be gone in days. It's super clean and even has all the brass knob caps. I don't get it!
Desperate times call for desperate measures. I have been trying to sell my near mint BC-60 for a month now. I have it listed on Craigslist, Reverb and eBay and the only offers I received have been international which I won't do. Have these amps fallen out of grace? I have it for local pick up but I live in the NYC tri-state area and I am not asking a lot. I'm baffled. Maybe the new models have taken away some of the interest? I thought it would be gone in days. It's super clean and even has all the brass knob caps. I don't get it!
I just looked up your ad - IMO, you're asking too much. For that price, people would rather buy a tube amp.
I just looked up your ad - IMO, you're asking too much. For that price, people would rather buy a tube amp.
I'm asking 389.00. I thought that was reasonable considering the condition and what I've seen them listed for. Oh well, I do have a best offer option.
I'm asking 389.00. I thought that was reasonable considering the condition and what I've seen them listed for. Oh well, I do have a best offer option.
I'm gonna step out and take a risk here and say there are no tube amps in that price range, in that kind of condition, that are better than a BC 60.
You're talking about amps like a Deluxe Reverb of a Vibrolux Reverb and they both run far more than $389. Unfortunately some will buy a crappy tube amp for less than $400 just because it has tubes.
When I looked up the ad on craigslist yesterday, it was listed at $450. At $389, maybe someone will bite. People on craigslist are looking to get something for nothing. If you're patient and can wait it out for a few months, the right buyer will probably come along.
Don't shoot the messenger guys, just trying to be honest here. Most people out there are morons, and those morons ignorantly believe that an amp HAS to have tubes to sound good.
I had a BC-30 many many years ago. It was a decent amp for what it did but not enough clean headroom for me. I really don't think it was putting out 30 watts. I sold it to a guy who really had to have one. They are not so common around here on the used market anymore.
The third avenue to try is to simply run a clean boost pedal in the signal chain to boost the input signal from lower output single coil pickups. The combination of these three allows my BC 60 to even keep up with 50w-60w tube amps and even the 30w should be very giggable at smaller venues by doing the second two.
Hmm - I don't know about that one. It might work up to a point, but boosting the signal runs the risk of overdriving the the front end and thereby generating unwanted distortion, and there goes your clean headroom. It's the same as turning the gain up, which simply increases the sensitivity of the pre-amp. That's what clean boost pedals are designed to do, in fact - generate distortion by overdriving the pre-amp valves in that kind of amp. Indeed, it seems to me that the two "crunch" settings on channel 1 of the BC-60 serve the same purpose.
Of course, you could always stick a boost in the loop - as it happens the TM60 has a built-in footswitchable clean boost up to 9dB to do that job - but there's a limit to how much signal you can feed into the power stage (or any other stage of an amp) before it cries "Enough!" and starts to clip.
Well it's like salt. It must be used judiciously or you'll spoil the meal.
If you can use a hotter wound pickup and still run clean you can also boost the output of a vintage wound lower output single coil and run clean too. The reason I like doing it is that all of my Teles have a treble bleed so I don't need to run the volume wide open to preserve my tone.
If I set the boost pedal up for it then I can run clean with the volume pulled back and just roll up the guitar volume for some grittier tone. Or I can just run full up on the volume and boost it a bit with the pedal. It works. You can trust me.
Now about that beach front property in Colorado I was pitching you on just recently. Let's talk about that some more. The price is outrageously good and it's only a short commute to the ocean.![]()