Vintage unboxing! 📦 Part 1: Discovery and Inspection

Welcome to an episode of some amp restoration! This video is filmed with an iPhone, so it’s not the best by any means.. I’ll improve as time goes on.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this unboxing and getting to know what it’s like inspecting an amp on the bench with many unknowns lying beneath! I go through great details that can be boring but the small things matter when it comes to amplifiers and making them capable of making great music once again! This video is part 1 of what will most likely be a three part series!
Time codes
0:00 - . . .
0:05 - Unboxing begins
1:13 - The history
2:25 - The great reveal
3:17 - A closer look: front panel
4:42 - A closer look: back panel
8:17 - The undercarriage
8:29 - Dates
9:43 - Dawg Haus
11:20 - Miscellaneous
13:00 - fuse check!
14:17 - A closer look: inside the chassis
17:03 - Daddy long leg screen resistor
18:02 - The worlds tiniest crack
18:52 - Final thoughts and goals

[@papablue3015]

Cool 🤘

[@rpmblues7018]

Wow! Daja Vu Doo. I bought this amp ,new in 1964. I had a Surf /blues band. Thanx, what memories.

[@BCEpedals]

@@rpmblues7018 yeah, man! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@jbrobertson2758]

I have a 1967 Band Master and it has the AB763 circuit. It's a great amp and is paired with a Marshall 1965A Lead cabinet with 4 x 10" Celestions. Very nice acquirement.

[@andreweaton5598]

I thought it was a bassman. Dang man killer find!!!

[@BCEpedals]

Good guess though! Lol yeah it’s been turning out REALLY good! Part 2 will be the repair footage.

[@ThomasBrock74]

That is an absolutely beautiful example of about a 1968 bandmaster. Please do it justice and do it right. Man. Put the right values in. Don't approximate them make this amp just as good as it once was cuz it's worth it to do so

[@BCEpedals]

@@ThomasBrock74 check out part two brother! What was replaced (which was very little) was done with correct values and great attention to detail. Only value I changed was cathode bypass of the tremolo oscillator from 25uf to 4.7 so that you don’t have to wait for the tremolo speed to catch up when you adjust the speed knob.

[@ThomasBrock74]

awesome man... I love those old amplifiers they just built stuff different back then they built it to be fixed to be repaired when needed they didn't build shit to throw in the trash when it was broken

[@BCEpedals]

@@ThomasBrock74 very true! I love these vintage amps too, it all comes down to construction technique. Most big manufacturers are more worried about penny’s saved per amp (current fender, mesa, Marshall, etc), but there are a few smaller builders out there still making high quality products!

[@ThomasBrock74]

@@BCEpedals yes I know but who can afford a boutique amp

[@BCEpedals]

@ yeah, I know I sure can’t.. lol but build them I can! 😅 There are some manufactured amps that only need a little TLC to be the affordable workhorses like the vintage ones used to be. Check out Psionic Audio - amps under 500 and amps under 1000

[@jasenXcore]

This was beyond anything I understand, but was still a very cool video to watch! Looking forward to the restoration!

[@BCEpedals]

@@jasenXcore my man, Jasen! I hope you and your fam are doing well! And thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 🤘🏻 I’ve had to learn over the past couple years to grasp many of these things 😅 either way it should be a fun ride watching this thing come back to life!

[@williambock1821]

I didn’t realize Uncle Doug had been making these videos for so long!!

[@MikeFoerster]

Nice. I've never heard of that amp before.

[@BCEpedals]

@@MikeFoerster hey Mike! Yeah this amp doesn’t get the spot light like most of the other fenders. But many fenders are quite similar! The bandmaster is essentially 99% the same as a tremolux, but is in a headshell instead of a combo like the tremolux.

[@user-mv5bu2kk8b]

Bandmaster is a rockin little amp😊