Vintage Rickenbacker Electro (M-12) - w/ AUDIO
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:23 pm
I was fortune enough to pick this up last weekend when it popped up on my local Craigslist. Unfortunately, other than that it sounds pretty amazing, I know very little about it and can't seem to locate much information online. I hope I've come to the right place 
I was wondering if anyone on here might be able to give me a date range, a wattage estimate, or where the serial number is typically located on these amps. It gets pretty loud and breaks up pretty quickly. There is a 12" Oxford speaker in the cabinet and the control plate reads "Model M-12 For 115V 50-60 Cycles AC Only .095 Amps." There are 3 inputs (Microphone, Instrument, and Instrument) and the 4th knob is a tone control. On the amp plate that houses the tubes inside, very faintly the word "sample" seems to have been written in pencil a very long time ago. Most of the M-12s I've seen online have the "R" in the grill and a little Rickenbacker plate tacked to the upper left corner above the grill cloth. There is no evidence that this plate was ever on this cabinet. I've uploaded a short track of me playing through this amp incase you're interested. It was recorded with my iPhone so the quality isn't the best, but you can hear the nice warm tone this amp has to offer. I'm using a MIM-strat with Fender CS Fat 50s on the neck setting. For the first half of the recording I have the amp set on 6-7 so it breaks up nicely. For the second half I dropped the volume to 2-3 so it's a little cleaner. The tone is set to about 70% bass the whole time. I'm hoping to get to be able to do a proper demo soon as there aren't too many out there from what I can tell. I also would like to apologize for the poor quality of the photos.
Anyway, any information anyone can supply would be greatly appreciated.
The short recording....
http://joshuagragg.com/rickenbacker-ele ... tro_01.mp3
I was wondering if anyone on here might be able to give me a date range, a wattage estimate, or where the serial number is typically located on these amps. It gets pretty loud and breaks up pretty quickly. There is a 12" Oxford speaker in the cabinet and the control plate reads "Model M-12 For 115V 50-60 Cycles AC Only .095 Amps." There are 3 inputs (Microphone, Instrument, and Instrument) and the 4th knob is a tone control. On the amp plate that houses the tubes inside, very faintly the word "sample" seems to have been written in pencil a very long time ago. Most of the M-12s I've seen online have the "R" in the grill and a little Rickenbacker plate tacked to the upper left corner above the grill cloth. There is no evidence that this plate was ever on this cabinet. I've uploaded a short track of me playing through this amp incase you're interested. It was recorded with my iPhone so the quality isn't the best, but you can hear the nice warm tone this amp has to offer. I'm using a MIM-strat with Fender CS Fat 50s on the neck setting. For the first half of the recording I have the amp set on 6-7 so it breaks up nicely. For the second half I dropped the volume to 2-3 so it's a little cleaner. The tone is set to about 70% bass the whole time. I'm hoping to get to be able to do a proper demo soon as there aren't too many out there from what I can tell. I also would like to apologize for the poor quality of the photos.Anyway, any information anyone can supply would be greatly appreciated.
The short recording....
http://joshuagragg.com/rickenbacker-ele ... tro_01.mp3
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