I could turn everything all the way up, which is what I always did anyway, and there was this small amount of bleed that sounded exactly like when the regular output is turned all the way up, but it’s really quiet. She’d always go, ‘Why do you have to make that high crying noise?’ “If you plug the cabinet into the external speaker output instead of the regular output, it’s really quiet. In the little house in Pasadena that I grew up in, my mom always hated what she called ‘that high crying noise’-in other words, soloing. I already had the Marshall, but I had not stumbled onto the Variac thing yet, so I would use the Bandmaster through the Marshall cabinet when we gigged at smaller clubs like Gazzarri’s. do it now, before it's gone forever! Okay, on to the Bandmaster! Here's Eddie's actual Bandmaster, the one we're talking about: Here's what Eddie had to say about his 1963 Blond Bandmaster: Go ahead, take a moment to go read it right now, I won't be offended, and since Guitar Player's future is in serious question as of this writing. Sadly, that awesome magazine has went the way of the dinosaurs, but parts of the interview are still available at this site by Guitar Player Magazine. There is SO MUCH great info there! Nuts & bolts stuff about his guitars and amps, the stuff we gear heads relish. The hands-down best Eddie Van Halen interview ever conducted was done by Guitar Aficionado Magazine in their Jan/Feb 2014 issue. Okay, that's a stretch, right? This however, is not: Eddie's most important amp at the time of the first THREE Van Halen albums was NOT a Marshall at all, nope, it was a blond Fender Bandmaster! Holy crap. We all know that Jim Marshall basically copied a Fender Bassman when he had his first amp designed, so in that way Eddie's famed Marshall amps are. However, as a SERIOUS fan of Leo Fender, this last gem I uncovered may just be the coolest of them all. Cool, but while researching that I stumbled upon some seriously interesting tidbits about his first Frankenstein guitar, which of course led to another blog. It started with a simple request to do a blog on Eddie Van Halen's use of a Variac. Okay, I never imagined how far this journey would take me. A friend of mine is selling a '64 Bandmaster with an already-replaced OT, and I have wondered about buying it and trying this.Eddie Van Halen Secret Amp: the Fender Bandmaster!
that would give you effectively an AA864 Bassman with two Normal channels and tremolo on one of them. You could probably get the best of both worlds by fitting a Bandmaster with a Bassman OT and DC-coupling the channels. Obviously the Bandmaster has tremolo and the Bassman has a Bass channel - which most people find useless, although it does actually sound good for bass! on the AA864 it's only used on the Bass channel and the Normal channel is almost identical to the Bandmaster's Normal channel (just one cap different at the channel-mix stage - the Bassman is DC coupled and doesn't roll off low frequencies). The Bassman does have a lot more low-end and more power due to its larger OT the AB165 and later Bassmans have a fair amount more compression too, since the intermediate gain stage is used on both channels. The Bandmaster has a sweeter, more midrangy tone and the Bassman is heavier and more punchy, basically.
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