Music Man Amp

[ghost1]

Hello all. New to forum and wondering if someone can tell me if they think this amp is worth $500. I'm not finding much on line about it. Music Man 112RD Fifty and it's tweed. I played it today and it sounds very good and is in great condition. I tried to send picture but download keeps failing.

 

[John C]

I had one of those years ago - got it in 1981 and kept it until I took my first playing hiatus in 1986. Tweed would be a recover - I only remember them being in black or white tolex. I don't know if they are currently going for $500 or not; mine sounded pretty good for the times. I used the "limiter" stage on it with my guitar at the time (a Fender Lead II that had somewhat hot single coils and a really nasally "punkish" tone), but anyone else who ever played it would use their pedalboard in front of the clean channel and use their overdrive pedals.

I found this site years ago with some info on the old Music Man amps - however they are wrong when they say the 112RD 50s were only made from 1982-1984; I know I got mine in the summer of 1981 - I remember the job that I was working at the time (a summer job I only had in 1981) and I remember telling my then girlfriend about having picked it up the previous evening - and I only went out with her in 1981

At any rate here is the link: Welcome! | Music Man Amps

EBMM has never been able to find a USA sales channel for their reissued models made for them by DV Mark, but the 112RD 50 is part of their reissue series.

 

[ghost1]

Thanks John. That is a great website. It is a white tolex.

 

[ghost1]

Thanks John. That is a great website. It is a white tolex.

Attached pic

 

[SlimBob]

These were great amps! A friend had one and I really liked the small size and amazing output for it's size. Another friend had the bigger 4X10 model and it was a marvel of engineering. I think Leo Fender was out to prove something when he designed these and while a lot of people were wary of a transistor front end they sounded great and were very reliable and most of all the output tubes lasted much longer in those amps than a typical Fender using all tubes.

Does it have the EV speaker?

 

[ghost1]

Not sure of speaker. Friend works at this store and knew owner of amp who recently passed away. He was a collector and I don't think it was played much. This thing looks like it just came off factory floor. I'm a little hesitant to purchase something that old, but it sounds so good and I don't want to let it get away if not overpriced. Does $500 look about right?

 

[SlimBob]

Not sure of speaker. Friend works at this store and knew owner of amp who recently passed away. He was a collector and I don't think it was played much. This thing looks like it just came off factory floor. I'm a little hesitant to purchase something that old, but it sounds so good and I don't want to let it get away if not overpriced. Does $500 look about right?

They're a store and have done the research to determine the maximum they can expect for it. You could always offer them $450 and they would probably take it. Even at it's age it will probably be a more reliable amp than the current crop of new $500 amps.

Do you intend to gig with it? It's similar in size and weight to the popular Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue but has a little more headroom with the EV and 6L6's. From what I remember - the idea was that the solid state preamp saved money because you don't have to keep buying 3, 4, 5, or 6 little preamp tubes and the the 2 6L6 output tubes still gave it an authentic tubey sound and feel AND those 6L6's last a really long time compared to the typical full tube amp design. In short - they are a reliable working mans amp that sounded better than the Peaveys of that era.

 

[John C]

Mine had the EV speaker; between that and the large transformer it weighed a ton!

Yep - that white tolex sure could yellow in the old smokey bars!