I have heard the sunn 300 and love it. Anybody have a sunn model t and heard a 300. If so did you think they sounded close to each other. The sunn 300 sounds great for bass. Is the sunn model t eq more tailored for guitar. It sounds like it to me. Anbody agree. Why does the model t sound so bad compared to the 300. Maybe needs tubes. I think there is 3 12ax7's in there. I will switch the phase inverter to a 12at7. See if that helps. Anybody have advice. Oh and what is the actual wattage of the amp. Must somewhere between 150 and 200. 4 6550's.

I found out some info myself. The sunn model t is a guitar amp. It was never designed to be a bass amp. The eq is a guitar eq. Lots of people like this for guitar. Very few people like this for bass. I guess if you used it for bass you would be looking for a very odd sound. One without the low bass. I guess bass to me has bass. You can get a very cuttting bass sound. Not my cup of tea. My three favs are. Ampeg SVT. Sunn or Fender 300. Ampeg V4B.

it's pretty cool to ask and answer for yourself isn't it?? i do it all the time

Robot near failure wrote:I found out some info myself. The sunn model t is a guitar amp. It was never designed to be a bass amp. The eq is a guitar eq. Lots of people like this for guitar. Very few people like this for bass. I guess if you used it for bass you would be looking for a very odd sound. One without the low bass. I guess bass to me has bass. You can get a very cuttting bass sound. Not my cup of tea. My three favs are. Ampeg SVT. Sunn or Fender 300. Ampeg V4B.

I knew a guy that used a Model T for a Bass amp with an old Eden 4x10 cab. It sounded quite good, and he was happy with it. A lot of older tube amps w/o master volume controls are quite good with both bass and guitar, though quite often it's better to use one with a bass cab for bass or face the risk of killing speakers and or lousy tone.

the model-t is most definitely lacking in the low end for bass. but it has excellent midrange and crunch for bass. in the studio i've used the model-t for the mids and my sovtek bassov for the lows. top tits.

This model t has a master volume. It is from the sixties. And also I just found out its got kt88's in it. The guy that recapped, retubed, and reresistored the amp did that. My bass player told him to put it to original spec. How is original spec with kt88's in it. It says it should have 6550's right next to the tube. Its not rocket science.

Well anyways as a guitar amp. It defintely sounds great. As a bass amp I would prefer another amp at the same time. Just for the super lows or low mid or whatever the hell it is that sounds different about it. Just my opinion and nothing more. If you don't have the same don't get mad.

My old '70 Model T, with matching 4x12 Model T cab sporting Celestion 75s, worked just fine in a pinch as a bass amp. No speaker-farting like my C75-equipped Marshall 1960A cab does running bass, oddly enough.

I'm not sure if impedance was a factor. I sold that amp 7 years ago, but IIRC the impedance was switchable on the amp and configurable on the speaker. I ran mine low in hopes of extending tube life, since the amp was so loud I could never get the power section past 3 anyway.