The How and the Why
I have a 1969 (I think) Fender Bandmaster Reverb TFL-5005D (Silverface) head and cabinet in my garage. When my father was in high school, he didn’t own a gig-worthy amplifier. When his band had a job, he would call up a “friend of a friend” that would let him rent his Fender Bandmaster Reverb for […]
Sound! — New Filter Capacitors
I’ve been doing some reading the last few months on common maintenance tasks for these amps and have seen multiple places state that the filter capacitors should be changed every 10 years or so. The capacitors in this amp were still the original set, so some new ones were certainly in order. The amp had […]
- Prep: Converting The Bias Balance to a Bias Adjustment
Last year when I started messing with the Bandmaster, I bought How to Hot Rod Your Fender Amp by Jeffrey Falla. I’ve read the first 6 chapters a few times now, and after practicing my soldering skills on my DS-1, I think I’m ready to jump in. Falla suggests performing this mod on all silverface […]