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IIRC, the "Polaroid Poster" that came with the original BOTR LP pictured PM in front of the grill cloth of at least one large Fender amp, probably a Bassman.

He had a Dual Showman for "Let It Be," I do believe. Back then, the DS was a killer bass amp. Don't know how it'd stand up against today's amps -- it was only 100W.

Let It Be was a blackline Bassman, so it was 50W and probably 2 x 12

the bass is really out of tune in BOTR

the bass is really out of tune in BOTR

All part of the subliminal charm of BOTR!

Some of that "out-of-tune-ness" actually sounds (to me) like Macca is really whacking those strings on the attack... causing a bit of a pitch-up for the first bit of a note. You can hear this more on particular cuts like 'Mrs. Vanderbilt' and 'Let Me Roll It'.

Legend has it that on Let It Be, it's a 50w Silver-face Bassman with 2 15s. Pics seem to corroborate this.

Looks like a 2 x 15 cab to me ... probably it was a Bassman head (DS would have more knobs on Channel 2), since Paul has the sticker on his bass in LIB. In Geoff Emerick's book, he says they purposely mixed the bass high in BOTR because they loved the sound. Out of tune? Listen to the acoustic guitar in the little rundown it does in "Bluebird." Out of tune purposely, I think. GE also indicates that Paul let up on his perfectionism a bit for BOTR, even allowing an extra beat in "Let Me Roll It" (caused by a bad edit.)

love that photo!