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Some people give stray cats and dogs a home and I seem to be that way with sad looking Ampeg amps. This one was super dirty, with non-original handle, grill and speaker, broken logo, crappy glass, and in need of electronic attention. The result after cleaning, electronic repair, NOS tubes/valves and new speaker is a spectacular sounding 1961 Ampeg M-15 "Big M". It has great woody tone and puts out a very loud 25 watts. My Guilds get along with it nicely. :tears_of_joy:

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those are great amps! i had a '63. best vibrato i ever heard.
 

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Those amps sound divine. I love that they have accordion inputs.

The last Ampeg I played through that looked like that what looked to me to be about 38 tubes in it.
 

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Great score! Ampegs are fabulous amps. I know you’re enjoying it.
 

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My favorite amp ever was a 60s Reverberocket. I've had vintage Gibsons and Fenders and a few others, but nothing compared to the Ampeg.
 

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Yep, the late '50s/early '60s Ampegs are great amps, and a great alternative to the other popular amp types of the time. Fab tremolo (and reverb in the '60s models) and a warm, rich overall sound.

-Dave-
 

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The last Ampeg I played through that looked like that what looked to me to be about 38 tubes in it.

If it's an Echo Twin or Super Echo Twin that's 'cuz it's two amps in one! The ET-2 version of the Super Echo Twin has 10 tubes, but fortunately none of 'em are rare & no-longer-made weirdos. I've got an ET-2b: two fewer tubes (solid-state rectifiers) but the power tubes are 7591s. There is current production of this tube but it's more like a 6L6 with modded pinouts than a proper 7591.

-Dave-
 

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Nice! There was one for sale locally a year ago but it sold before I had a chance to try it. Is it very clean, or does it start to break up kind of where a mid size tweed Fender would?
 

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I haven't played every Ampeg ever made, but the trend seems to be towards a big, round clean sound. More like a black face Fender than a tweed Fender, but still a different kind of clean.
 

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Compared with Fenders, Ampegs tend to have more mids than blackfaces/silverfaces but more headroom than tweeds. Warmer & smoother high end from the Ampegs too. An Ampeg Jet and a brown Princeton don't sound that far apart…faced with a choice I'd take the Jet. Much the same goes for the 6V6 version of the Reverberocket and a black/silver Princeton Reverb. (I much prefer the non-reverb black/silver Princeton, a minority position.)

-Dave-
 
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