Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

So I'm on vacation in Florida, and I find this on consignment in a little music store.

It's a Walter Woods 100 watt amp and Ampeg PB112H 12' neodynium (?) cab. It's incrediably light weight and sounds killer with all my basses. It has a great overdriven sound that's amazing with Ricks. I do a lot of musicals so this is the perfect rig for small gigs. It has me thinking about looking at a larger Walter Woods amp for larger gigs. I think Jeff Scott has a WW amp, but I'm wondering if anyone has any additional experiences with these amps? Also, how do I get more info on WW amps? I'd like to see what models are available and get more info on ordering.

If nothing else you share a name right?

How much did you pay for that little devil? Nice little package!

Where in FL?

Welcome to the WW Amp Club! Marc Seligman also has a WW amp. I am on my third WW amp. The first was the same as you just got, an MI-100-8. A nice feature is the mix position on the channel selector switch where you can get a nice overdrive to a very good distortion for guitar, especially. The second one was basically the same but an older one from '78. What I currently have is the Super Hi Power Electracoustic with 650 watts rms into 4 Ohms. If you take the top off you will find the serial number stamped into the heatsink which is the date of manufacture, as Walter doesn't make too many on any given day.

E-mail me and I can get you his contact info.

Now there's a souvenir! Enjoy it Steve.

I picked it up at Vogt Music in Sarasota. $650 seemed like a pretty sweet deal! As great as the amp sounds, I quite like the Ampeg cabinet too. It has a built-in tweeter with an attenuator on the back. It also has wheels and an extendable handle for carting it around.
Thanks for the info Jeff - I'll drop you a line about Walter's contact info.
BTW Jacob, he a Woods while I'm a Wood. Totally different.

Oops - that should have been Fogt Music.

I can honestly say that WW's are the only amps to make me think twice about non-tube amplification.. They sound incredible, and at what seemed like two lbs., i'd own one in a second if had the funds.

I am on my fourth WW amp. I kept trading up until I was able to get an Ultra High Powered Electroacoustic (1200 watts @ 4 ohms). While I have loved them all, he really nailed it with this one. Sounds sweeter than them all. Covers all my work - from jazz upright gigs, to country, to rock. I sold a lot to get it, but I could not be happier!

What cabinets do you use with it Tim? Does it work well with your Rick(s)? I'm thinking that with the small size of these amps, you invest in one (as you did), that has enough power to cover any situation, and just add cabinets accordingly. As much as I love the sound of the M1, it's only 100 watts. Geez, I've only had it a week and I'm already thinking of upgrading...

Keep it as a practice/small gig amp and get a new one for the larger gigs. I use my WW with any of my speaker cabs. You saw the small, killer rig, here is the big gig rig (as seen at The Winchester, in Lakewood, Ohio):



Each of the Traynor YS-15 cabs have an Eminence Delta Pro 15 (400 watts rms) in them. All my basses sound great through it.

Hi Steve,

My first Woods was an M-100 too. Because of its low power I mainly used it as Jeffrey suggested above. I did not feel a need to keep it as I found the newer ones sounded even better and since they are so small and portable i did not need a seperate amp for practice or small gigs. Think I sold mine for $650 which helped pay for what I have now.

But I digress: you asked about speakers. I use a pair of EA VL 110s for most of my gigs. They are small, but mighty. I use them for everything - jazz, country, rock, upright, electric. They sound good with everything and, yes, the Woods with the EA sound great with my Rick. The do not color the tone much at all so what I'm getting is the sound of the bass itself.

When I need to move more air I used to couple an Epifani 310 with one or both EAs, but I just sold that cab. Mark from Accugroove is setting me up with one of his cabs for my UK tour so I'll soon be hearing what that sounds like with my WW and my Rick.

For those who don't know this, there is a small switch hidden between the heatsink fins that select 120/240 volts!

Yup. That's one of the reasons it is going to be so easy to use my own amp during my upcoming UK tour!