Fender® Bassman® 100 100-watt Bass Combo Amplifier

A great value for the money amp, practice and small gigs perfect partner, easy of use, usefull features e.g. mute button or DI plus a famous name like Fender (good reselling value): all these facts make this amp a perfect buy.

Features: Preset limiter and enhancer, compressor, mute button, bass treble and parametric mid control, tuner out, ground lift , DI with level control (pre/post), active passive selector. Features are excellent for the price and wattage. perfect for small gigs, rehearsal and recording

Sound: Using a classic vintage 57 precision sound comes out natural and punchy as it supposed to be. what amazed me is the low B sound of my lakland 55-02 active bass. you must bear in mind that we are talking about a mid priced item. music style : mostly blues rock. effects used are a bass overdrive and a preamp of Trace Elliot but only in few cases needed especially where some extra compression could be of great need.

Durability: In general terms another straight 5 star grade. Only the input jack needed some screwing after all these years of heavy use.

There was one thing that I noticed that was really cool. If you look at the bottom of the "head" you will see that it is separate from the cab so the amp and the head do not share a common space like most combos do they are separate from each other. The look is professional. The side handles are good (amps thissize are too large for starp handles). I have a 03 Galant and it fits in my car For the money this is much better choice than the ampeg ba-15. This is a true profssional amp. need more power than look at the bassman 200

Features: 4 hand eq built in compressor tuner mute, mid feq enhance switch,XLR out (grnd lift pre/post eq select AND level control. This amp has the features of amps costing several times as much. Great for the stage or studio

Sound: Absolutely great no hiss clear highs powerful lows. I use an Ibanez sr305dx and the B sounds awesome. The sound is pristine well defined and for the money nothing comes close to the sound quality.

Durability: There was one thing that I noticed that was really cool. If you look at the bottom of the "head" you will see that it is separate from the cab so the amp and the head do not share a common space like most combos do they are separate from each other.

I bought this amp because it was in my price range, it has a solid, professional, look to it and great sound quality. It isn't too big and can be moved easily if needed. It's great for playing on stages because of the output that hooks into PAs.

Features: Knobs: Gain, Bass, Mid Level, Mid Frequency, Treble, Compressor, Master Volume -------------------------------------------------------- Features: Single Input, Mute, Passive/Active, Enhance, Limiter, Ground Lift, Post/Pre EQ, and my favorite..Line Out to hook it directly into a PA system easily. -------------------------------------------------------- Power: 120V~60Hz, 360W - powerfull enough to play on stage and with the line out it can also hook into a more powerful PA System if needed.

Sound: Effects: I have a little effects board I fool around with. It goes straight into the amp's input and I could mess with some higher or lower pitch effects, but just for fun. I have never really used effects during jams. -------------------------------------------------------- Music Syles: Everything from Jazz to Heavy Metal works and sounds fine. Styles from usual alternating pointer/middle finger to Slap/Pop and Tapping techniques also sounds great. -------------------------------------------------------- Compare: The only other amps I have used is a 15w Hartke POS amp which I started out and my dad's 1 X 15T Workingman's cabinet amp with a SessionBass head unit. It just about matches the Cabinet amp in sound quality but the cab probably has twice the power of the Bassman 100. I would expect this knowing the cab was more than twice as much money as the Bassman 100. -------------------------------------------------------- Problems: None. I have had it about a year now and I haven't experienced any buzzing or problems with the speaker itself.

Durability: Reliability: I haven't had to repair it, ever. As I said I have had it for about a year and its holding up fine so far. The box/outer mold im guessing is strong plastic or a mix of metal. It's tough. I've knocked into walls and it leaves scratches on the walls; it doesn't get scratched easily.

I was looking at an SWR LA-15, and a Yorkville 100 watt combo. This one was the most expensive out of the three, but overall the best in quality. It could use another channel. But my favorite aspect of this amp would have to be the sound-quality. For a 100 watt combo, it's pretty powerful. The worst aspect would have to be the fact that I can't really put the gain past 4 without clipping. And the "enhance" button has never had any real use, but to make it sound crappier. But that's probably just me. Overall, I love this thing.

Features: This amp is pretty much loaded with features. I love the fact that it has the LED indicators, especially for the preamp, because while speed-picking (punk) I'm constantly 'clipping.' And the built-in compressor is a plus. No channel switching, but there is an effects loop, which I have yet to use. This amp is definitely powerful enough for the punk band that I'm in. Our guitarist plays a Randall 160 watt combo, and with the volume at around 4, with the gain almost to 5, I overpower him with his master at 7 or 8. It's a solid state, by the way.

Sound: I play a Squier Affinity P-bass. Yeah, I know it's a very crappy bass, but it's my first bass. When speed picking, I can get a nice trebley tone out of it. Before this, I had a Fender Frontman 15B. This was a pretty nice step up from that. I really liked the fact that I could go past 5 without it sounding like crap.

Durability: I've played a total of two shows with it. I've had it for a little longer than six months, and I've never had any problems at all. No repairs, nothing. The construction is mad-crazy nice. I could probably kick it around and it would still play the same.

Overall, I'd say I like the amp a lot. It really makes my bass sound professional. I have had a little problem getting a good sound. But I think anybody as picky as me needs an EQ pedal. And you have to keep in mind it's not a 1300 dollar stack unit. I'll give it a 4 out of 5

Features: 100watts. Bass, Mid-Fequesncy, Mid-Level, and Treble knobs. Nifty little mute switch (which comes in handy) Compressor knob. Button marked "enhance" which is useful for slap and smooth styles. I play with a guitarist, drummer, and a keyboardist..............in a wedding band and it's loud enough. It has solid state electronics. It also has a low-z preamp out witha level knob.....that is very useful to me because I plug into a P.A.

Sound: I like the sound of this bass when I use it with my Jazzbass. Fender amps are made for Fender basses. I play like soft rock with my wedding band and harder rock 'n roll in my own band and it sounds good with both. It was the best sounding of all the ones in the price-range. It is nice and clean at high volumes too. I use no effects but plan on getting and E.Q. The thing I really like is that it cuts past the bass in the other instruments so that the bass guitar stands out separately.

Durability: I've only played with it for a short while. But it's built to last and I've had no problems with it.

Features: Master volume and gain controls. Bass, mid, mid frequency, and treble for the eq. Compressor, active/passive switching enhance and limiter switches. Effects send & return w/pre-post eq switch tuner out. Dedicated line out with level control and a ground lift switch.

This is the only amp I saw that was extremely versatile for the watts. Most others I had to really pump the mids and treble to get the same great sound that this one offers with the knobs on neutral. The amp could use another input, and Fender could have supplied a better instruction manual. But other than that this amp kicks.

Features: It has an XLR line out complete with a line out level control knob and a switch for pre/post EQ lineout signal, tuner jack coupled with a tuner/mute switch which mutes all other outputs, and an effects loop. And that's just the back side. On the front it has a 4-knob semiparametric EQ with bass, mid, and treble levels along with a mid cutoff frequency knob which selects which frequency is controlled by the mid level. Only 1 input though. But it does have built in compression, which when enabled can go from 1:1 to I believe 10:1. Also there is a gain control with 2 LEDs, one for signal level and one for pre-amp clip. The limiter limits the level going to the power-amp, so no matter how you have the master volume knob, you won't distort or clip the power amp. Also there is a LED indicating when the power amp is clipping. And the power switch of course.

Sound: It's loud enough to play with muted drums or for practice or to use as a monitor if you have a larger setup. I play with a Fender J-Bass, and if I had humbuckers, it would run darn quiet, when properly grounded. It has to be plugged into a 3-prong outlet. Otherwise, if an 2 to 3 prong adapter is used, there will be a large amount of noise created with the tone knob up on your bass. Other than that, it pretty much runs silent. I play a wide range of styles from straight rock to jazz to funk, and it sounds as good if not better (especially with the pop/slap of funk) than any other amp I looked at in this price/power range. It's clean and true up until it reaches it's max power, and those distortions don't sound all that great due to the solid state design, but if you back off on the gain and/or the master level, it sounds very loud, and very good. It can be noisy with single-coil pickup basses like my jazz bass if you have a bunch of electronics in the room, i.e. computer, VCR, TV, stereo...etc. Also with the single coil, it is best to stand at least 3 feet from the amp, or else the pickups pickup the magnetic field from the amp and the magnets in the speakers.

Durability: The solid state construction allows for this amp to be extremely reliable, no tubes to suddenly go out on you. And it's put together solid to boot.