In a message to Al Thompson  Jeff Vineburg wrote:
JV>  AT>I just had my first chance to tinker inside a reissue '59
JV>    >Bassman. The thing has PC Boards in it!  What's the deal?
JV>
JV>  Tell you what, sir.... I have a bunch of point to pointers and a
JV>  bunch
JV>  of pc boarders.  I don't have the Big Thing against pc's that seems
JV>  to be so prevalent on the net.  I don't give a lot of credence to
JV>  Weber's
JV>  thought about pc trace capacitance, copper voodoo, or special flux.
JV>  They all sound good.
I'm not really a snob, I was just under the impression that it was a "true" 
reissue.
JV>    >THOSE certainly weren't in the originals I used to work
JV>    >on.
JV>
JV>  True.
JV>  Tell me your feelings on them.
Hard to say.  My earlier exposure to the original Fenders was to 2 particular 
59 4x10" Bassmans (Bassmen?) and a brown-faced Pro that a friend had, and a 
batch of blackface amps that I had through the years.  However, at that time, 
my major requirements for an amp were 1) volume; 2) balls.
For my purposes at that time, the 59 Bassman wasn't really ballsy enough for 
guitar, and didn't have enough low end response for bass due to the 10" 
speakers and the open-backed design.  The original speakers also seemed a 
little fragile.  The memory of that amp is what I use to define "brown" when 
I hear people use that term.
The new one I played with the other day sounded "kinda" like the old one, but 
the differences may have been more from the speakers than the circuitry.  It 
sounded somehow "colder" or "less brown."
To give an idea of what my "ideal" was, the favorite amp setup I owned was 
two West Grande heads through two Acoustic 4x12" cabinets.  Not very 
conventional, but that's what I liked.  
 
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