VOX  DYNAMIC  BASS   

Serial Number   1299

The Vox Dynamic Bass is a bass amplifier from the same product line as the Conqueror and Defiant.

The amp is a solid state, and was introduced around 1967 along with the Conqueror, Defiant, Supreme, Foundation and Super Foundation amps.

There is pictorial evidence that this amp, or its bigger brother the solid state Foundation Bass, was used on Beatles recordings for Hey Bulldog/Lady Madonna, etc. in early 1968, like they also used Conquerors for these sessions.

We used this amp in my first band Epicure as a guitar amp, and it has the same MRB and Distortion effects as the Conqueror, but sounds darker and slightly more powerful. It is in fact a great amp for guitar.

 I clearly remember looking through the vents into the amp, to see if I could spot any valves.

I thought it sounded much like a valve amp - and definitely waaaay better than the Yamaha G50-112 I played through myself at the time! But there were no valves of course.

It is entirely loaded with transistors. Unfortunately he didn't want to swap amps with me. I wonder why?