AMP SHOOT OUT - Budget Vintage Amplifiers - 1968 Fender Bandmaster VS 1968 Fender Bassman 

0:55 bandmaster clean 2:00 dirty 3:12 bassman clean 4:19 bassman dirty 5:43 bandmaster clean 6:45 bandmaster dirty 7:57 bassman clean 9:02 bassman dirty 10:20 bandmaster clean 11:51 bassman clean

This is the best real life, quality audio, scientific amp comparison demo I’ve seen. Why are the good ones like this in the shadows and the knuckleheads popular?? Keep up the good work

Interesting comparison. I think I hear maybe just a hair more brightness in the Bandmaster than the Bassman, which sounds just a hair darker than the Bandmaster to my ears. To me it sounds like the Bassman is accenting the lower mids a little more than the Bandmaster. Both great sounding amps though. Thanks for sharing!

I dig both amps but have always had a soft spot for bandmasters. They are just such a stellar sounding amp for the money. I have silverface reverb and an early blackface and they are stellar

Because I've been around forever, I was able to buy a '68 Bandmaster somewhere around 1980, so I wouldn't have to keep borrowing my brother's amp! 😄 They were dead cheap back then....$225 sticks in my head as the sticker price. I'm not sure if we were even talking about "vintage gear" back then. Mostly, it was just considered OLD. With the Bassman being the Fender amp that EVERYONE knows about, it'd be tempting to think that's because it sounds so much better. I think the Bandmaster really held its own in this comparison!

1:25 3:42 2:33 4:53 Bandmaster has more clarity which sounds better dirty for that SRV chunk but clean the bassman is warmer. For SRV tone the bandmaster makes sense and would probably handle pedals great because of the extra clarity. Even clean stevie had a punchy tone.

That is the same silverface Bandmaster I have ! That was first real amp I bought.

Nice demo man!

They are brothers. Their design and circuitry is very similar.

I have a 68 drip edge bandmaster head....been playing for 40 years and have owned dozens and dozens of amps, this bandmaster is my favorite and main amp....followed by my plexi then a ‘72 bassman 100....new amps just don’t have much mojo, parts and components not as good, and generally lack a certain sound dimension and character...the best new amps are copies of the old greats, (fender, Marshall, vox).....they got it right the first time and haven’t been topped

very cool

Main point : rectifier vs solid state. Bassman is way more percussiv, less muddy than bandmaster in my opinion.

Did you use a pedal for dirty sounds, or is it natural? Thanks in advance!

what strat is that with 3 p90s????

What speakers were these played through? Sounds great!

0:53 Bandmaster Clean + Strat 1 3:10 Bassman Clean + Strat 1 1:59 Bandmaster Dirty + Strat 1 4:18 Bassman Dirty + Strat 1 1:03 Bandmaster Clean + Strat 2 3:21 Bassman Clean + Strat 2 2:10 Bandmaster Dirty + Strat 2 4:30 Bassman Dirty + Strat 2 1:14 Bandmaster Clean + Strat 3 3:32 Bassman Clean + Strat 3 2:22 Bandmaster Dirty + Strat 3 4:41 Bassman Dirty + Strat 3 1:24 Bandmaster Clean + Strat 4 3:42 Bassman Clean + Strat 4 2:33 Bandmaster Dirty + Strat 4 4:53 Bassman Dirty + Strat 4 1:35 Bandmaster Clean + Strat 5 3:52 Bassman Clean + Strat 5 2:45 Bandmaster Dirty + Strat 5 5:04 Bassman Dirty + Strat 5 5:38 Bandmaster Clean + P-90 1 7:56 Bassman Clean + P-90 1 10:17 Bandmaster Clean + Mini HB 1 11:49 Bassman Clean + Mini HB 1 6:44 Bandmaster Dirty + P-90 1 9:00 Bassman Dirty + P-90 1 11:01 Bandmaster Dirty + MiniHB 1 12:33 Bassman Dirty + MiniHB 1 Bandmaster sounds less muddy to me

A whole video with no look at the amp settings???