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FBT - 500BR; MUD-amp galore or bass amp to the max!!

Real bass amps in full tube version are sparse. The Fender Bassman (and the Marshall line that came from this), Dynacord BassKing are a few, but most of these amps were taken over by the guitar players. And that was also possible: the additional low end, low mid emphasis and overdrive capacities gave them an advantage for guitar players that the traditional guitar amps didn't have. And then this FBT amp came in; this FBT amp is the superlative of bass amps! It breaths low end MUD I never heard from any other amp!! In 1963 FBT was born as a small workshop by Bruno Baldoni and Vinicio Tanoni (B and T of the FBT) where they produced tube amps for guitar and PA in Italy. They also produced different things like organs and synths. And while the production in the 60's was still handmade and on a small scale, the company grew in the 80's and started to produce bigger and better amps where the tube designs shifted to the more modern solid state devices. Nowadays the company is a ra...

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Fender - Showman AA763 with 7355 tubes

Black Lion Audio - PG-P type F

Unknown pedal - Fuzz? Overdrive? Boost?

Goodrich - LDR-2 volume pedal