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Roger Sadowsky Makes the Bass. Will Lee Makes It Sing bass The Ampeg Issue is here! From the new face of Ampeg to the the creation of the SVT. See inside... gear All gear, all the time. bassgearmag.com Issue 4 Roger Sadowsky makes the bass. Will Lee makes it sing. $7.50US Ampeg Micro-VR Bass Whisperer 1974 Ampeg SVT Can it really sound like an The great Ed Friedland, The Classic ‘70s SVT head. SVT and weigh under 10lbs? now reviewing for BGM! How does it rate today? COVER STORY - INTERVIEW 20 Will Lee bass BGM braves new ground with its first-ever player interview. So why not start with the best in the business? Tom Bowlus delves into the mind of Uncle Will. QUICK LOOKS gear 10 Ibanez Promethean P5110 Combo 12 East Side Sound Roller Series 1x15 Bass Cabinet 16 Line 6 LD400 Pro Bass Combo 18 Creation Audio Labs MK.4.23 Boost Pedal FULL REVIEWS 28 SADOWSKY WILL LEE MODEL 4-STRING BASS Will Lee and Roger Sadowsky have been making music together for 30 years. Raise a glass with us and celebrate this joint venture. 20 36 TOM CLEMENT BASS “JON” 5-STRING FRETLESS BASS Ed Friedland joins the BGM crew and helps answer the question, how affordable can a fully custom bass really be? 62 AMPEG MICRO-VR AND SVT-210AV It looks like a toy, but sounds like the real deal. Alan Loshbaugh puts the Ampeg mini-stack (is that an oxymoron?) through its paces. 88 MOJO SONIC 1x10 CABINET STACK Memphis has already won a place in our hearts with Beale Street, Graceland, and some damn fine ribs. Vic Serbe found some more Memphis MOjO. VINTAGE GEAR TESTS 28 50 1974 AMPEG SVT BASS HEAD The King of Amps has been rockin’ stages in one form or another for 40 years. Tom Lees takes a 1974 road warrior and runs it through the crucible. 74 1966 AMPEG B-15N BASS COMBO The B-15 is one of the classics that has stood the test of time. Tom Lees puts it on the bench and shows us that an old dog can teach us all a few new tricks. SPECIAL FOCUS: AMPEG MILESTONES 44 FROM THE ORIGINS OF THE SVT TO TODAYS AMPEG AT LOUD TECH BGM celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Ampeg brand and the 40th Anniversary of the SVT with interviews at Loud Tech and with SVT designers Bill Hughes and Roger Cox about the bass amp that changed the world. 62 bass 4 gear issue INDUSTRY NEWS 2009 SUMMER NAMM AWARDS 102 A smaller than usual Summer NAMM Show meant more time to stop and smell the roses. Our staff pick eight standouts for the BGM show awards. 4 VINTAGE RESTORATION RESTORING A 1966 B-15N 78 This old workhorse was still able to pull the wagon, but needed a little TLC. Technical Editor Tom Lees gives this old amp a new outlook on life. DEALER PROFILE BEAVER FELTON & BASS CENTRAL 101 One of the most important bass stores in the world is run by one of the most accomplished bassist players anywhere. He’s also got one heck of a life story. 50 COLUMNS HOW I SEE IT 6 The only thing that remains constant is change, and we have plenty of that. These changes bring us back to why we started BGM in the first place, so it’s all good. IN THE DOGHOUSE – Phil Jones Bass Flightcase Combos 104 Upright guru Chris Fitzgerald takes a break from mixing mics and pickups and plugs into a couple of combos from Phil Jones. HOW WE TEST 106 Who was it that said establishing a uniform set of bench-test standards for MI amplification gear would be easy? Oh, wait… no one said that… PHILTHY TALK – Why Fretwork Matters 108 78 Technical Editor Phil Maneri has made a living out of turning bad fret jobs into good ones. Doctor Phil tells us why fretwork matters. BASS & DRUMS - An Interview with Hal Blaine, Part 1 110 Jake’s back and he’s brought Hal Blaine with him! In an interview too huge for one issue, Jake Jacobs sits down with the most recorded musician in the world. MANUFACTURER’S RESPONSE 112 Enough of what we have to say. Let’s hear it straight from the manufacturer’s mouth! FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT 114 It’s a well-known fact that kids are amazing critters. This year’s Summer NAMM Show also showed us that Little Kids Rock! 102 bass gear 5 HowTom Bowlus, Editor-in-Chief I See it Hello, and welcome to issue #4 of Bass signal for determining how much output brand, discussions with the inventors of Gear Magazine! This issue ushers in a per watt to expect from a bass enclosure. the SVT (Roger Cox and Bill Hughes), a number of changes, and I'll try to After some deliberation, we chose to look full review of the new Micro-VR and summarize them for you, here. We have at the average sensitivity over a frequency SVT-210AV, a restore job for a ’66 B- made some major revisions to our bench- range of 200Hz to 900Hz. In addition to 15N, and full technical reviews of this ’66 testing methods and reports. Technical sensitivity measurements, we have charts B-15N and a ’74 SVT. Any way you look Editor Tom Lees speaks about this more for on and off-axis frequency response, as at it, Ampeg is a huge name in the world directly in his “How We Test” column, well as impedance curves. You will also of bass amplification, and this unofficial but the nutshell is that we stepped up to a notice the addition of a brief “Cab Lab” “Ampeg Issue” takes a look at the past, very nice Audio Precision system and section (similar to our “Amp Lab”) present, and future of the brand. substantially overhauled our amplifier following the use and listening review for Speaking of those vintage technical tests. The changes were made as part of speakers. reviews, taking the classic benchmark our on-going effort to make our tests as From our inception, BGM has focused amps and cabs (and maybe even some off fair as possible to the wide variety of more upon the instrument makers and the wall vintage items) and putting them amplification products available, but also gear manufacturers, as opposed to the through the same rigorous bench-testing as representative as possible of how a given players. There are multiple reasons for this that we subject modern gear to was a goal product will perform for the typical focus, and it has been a privilege to be here at BGM from day one. In the case of gigging musician in a wide range of able to feature some of these people on the ’66 B-15N and ’74 SVT, the old venues. This is a more challenging task the cover. This issue continues that trend standards come through with flying than some may think, but I really feel like with New York luthier legend Roger colors, and demonstrate exactly why they we've made some positive strides along Sadowsky, but there’s this guy with him in are the “standards.” Look for more vintage these lines. The new tests and procedures the photo whom you just might know. tests in future issues. have been peer-reviewed by some of the His name is Will Lee, and Will has scored Perhaps the most exciting new item, best brains in the business. While we are the trifecta for issue #4. In addition to however, is the addition of reviewer not done with our tweaks (and we have gracing the cover (the first player to do extraordinaire, Ed Friedland, to the Bass some additional tests planned for future so), Will is also featured in our first-ever Gear Magazine team. Both myself and issues), I do feel that we have a solid player interview. His third score comes by Contributing Editor Terry Buddingh baseline for amplifier testing going way of the Sadowsky Will Lee Model worked with Ed back in the Guitar World’s forward. And yes, we are going to be review. BGM will feature more player Bass Guitar days, and Terry and I have revisiting some of the amplifiers tested in interviews in future issues, focusing on been eager to get Ed involved with BGM. previous issues. people whom we feel really have In this issue, Ed reviews a stunning fretless Speaker (bass enclosure) testing has also something interesting to say. I can’t think 5-string from Tom Clement. You can view gone through some changes. Tom Lees of a better person to lead off with than companion videos to this review on Ed’s was getting a bit overworked, so I decided Will. YouTube channel – www.youtube.com/ to take over the task of measuring the You may have noticed a healthy dose of bassguitarmag (gee, I wonder where he enclosures. Fortunately, I was able to Ampeg in this issue. 2009 marks the 60th came up with that channel name?). enlist the help of the music tech program Anniversary of Ampeg, and the 40th Once again, I thank you for taking the at our local college, Terra State Anniversary of the SVT. 2009 also marks time to check out our publication and for Community College (www.terra.edu). a period of readjustment for the Ampeg your continued support. Bass Gear Many thanks to all of my “interns” and to brand, and the introduction of some Magazine is starting to hit our stride, but the staff at Terra! I did change the exciting new products.
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