![]() It is easy to forget when an excellent band Oasis was, since their music was often overshadowed by their frequent indiscretions and the media coverage of them. Noel’s settings still show above the knobs if you’re looking to capture his sound, and the tolex wear or the gaffer tape in the back are hints that this little combo probably has many beautiful stories to tell.Īn absolute “must-hear” track : Supersonic It’s hard to know in which context he used that lovely silverface, but he certainly took it out on stage, probably as a complement to a more muscular amp, like his Orange OR-120. ![]() Noel Gallagher is among the players known to dig that lesser-known model, and this beautiful 1972 combo was his. Had that amp not been sold as a kit with the Musicmaster bass, and had it be named in a more consensual way, it might have become a Fender classic. Indeed, that kind of tool is perfect to get a big ample sound without crushing the room with volume. That amp could almost be seen as the ideal answer to all the guitar players who would modify their Princeton by putting a bigger speaker inside it. But in the same way that guitarists became enamoured with the evocatively named Bassman in the fifties, those same guitarists are the ones who got hip to the Musicmaster Bass, basically a low-power twelve-watt combo (featuring two 6V6 power tubes) with a twelve-inch speaker. When Fender released the Musicmaster Bass amp in 1970, they wanted to design something for bass players playing at home. History has a funny way of repeating itself. ![]()
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