Want the vintage tone of the long plate tubes and the smooth richness on the gold pin tubes? This is our ECC803S Gold Pin Option Retube kit is for a 1972 thru 1983 Fender Bassman 100 and Bassman 135 Amps. This kit contains two Long Plate Gold Pin ECC803S's and a balanced Gold Pin ECC81 for the phase inverter in V3. Very smooth and lush sounding! The default power tubes are a matched quad of the JJ 6L6GC’s but you can configure this kit to use the JJ 5881’s by clicking on the "Customize" button.
1972 thru 1983 Bassman 100 and Bassman 135 amps are not fully adjustable, they have a balance circuit where one power tube is adjustable so all you can do is match the bias to the fixed power tube. This can be done using a bias probe and a multimeter or one of our "Pro One" bias probes. All of these are are available in the "Related Products" tab.
The best solution with these amps is to mod the bias to be fully adjustable. Over the years many techs have been doing this by default. If your amp has been modified you can use the Deluxe Reverb bias video for reference. We typically bias these amps between 35 to 40mA with the JJ 6L6GC's or 33 to 40mA for 5881's.