"Ampeg-The Story Behind The Sound"

[Radd]

Anyone have this book? Or is a serious Ampeghead?

I bought a used Ampeg V4 (8 ohms) 4x12 guitar cab around 1992 and have been happy with it but never knew anything detailed about it and now I find myself very interested in it. Serial # 151520-9 Has a plastic "a" logo on the blue/silver sparkle grill cloth and a seperate platform with casters attached that screws into the side of the cab.

1. What year was it released?
2. What wood is it made with?
3. What brand/model speakers did it come with?

I emailed Ampeg and they said this book is a good reference for things like this and that it looks like my cab is from the mid seventies. I can't find much on the net. This is the cab that I mentioned before on here that a few weeks after buying it, the music store sent me a note that said "I understand Randy Rhodes used one of the Ampeg cabs you now own!"

Unfortunately, after taking these pics, I put a 2 inch tear in the top left speaker.

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[everybody's x]

If you pull the amp from the head cabinet there is a dated schematic on top of the chassis

screaming loud ass heavy amps

 

[everybody's x]

oops that was for a v4 head.

google CTS speaker codes for the date

 

[sparkyness]

Standing in front of a cranked SVT rig with a decent bass is probably the 2nd best feeling you can have.

 

[cobhc]

Standing in front of a cranked SVT rig with a decent bass is probably the 2nd best feeling you can have.

Would the first be involving some sexual activity?

 

[sparkyness]

if you have to ask......

 

[Radd]

google CTS speaker codes for the date

Thanks EX. For anyone that might be interested I found this:
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/pots.html

According to this site, if I go by the numbers on the bottom row then they appear to be Eminence's from the 2nd week in December 1976.
I don't know what the top row of numbers mean.

 

[everybody's x]

probably a cone designation

 

[Radd]

probably a cone designation

What's that? Where they were made? Like factory, city, state, country?

 

[everybody's x]

um, usually just a code to tell them what cone to replace it with

a stock number

 

[Radd]

ok, gotchya.