The tag on the back, 8111, thats the date code. November 1981. I have two 100 watt versions of these. One with the original EVM-12S and the other with a british made G12H-100. My main unit is my two piece version, The 100RD head and the One 12 with the EVM-12L speaker. It has the longer EV and the cabinet sounds better (bigger) than the combo. I've been using this amp exclusively since I bought it in 1981. All through the metal 80's! Yes, these are clean amps, but they dirty up VERY nice! I would wheel my little amp in front of all those marshall stacks and people would laugh.....until they heard it! "How can that little amp be THAT loud!" Yep, still have it and I'm using it in my band today. Sorry, but you need to install the grille cloth from the TOP down! Take your time and watch the pattern as you stretch it. You really need to either fix what you have or re-do it. Too crooked. Seriously, you got the badge on crooked too!?? Yes, they ARE two channel amps! I use that as the lead channel. Never trust a sound man to turn your leads up...do it yourself. You don't have to crank these amps to make them "dirty". Crank the gain! They sound the same at 1 as they do at 10. Yes, they LOVE effects.
Thanks for documenting this amp, and your restoration of it. All Music Man amps are super cool, but the RD models are IMO the top of the bunch. Over the years, I have come to prefer Music Man over Fender amps. Mainly because MM amps tend to sound very good at basically any volume level. In contrast to Fender amps, which tend to sound really good at one specific volume.
OMG so glad you posted this demonstration...! I purchased the Music Man 112 RP 100 back in 1987. The seller was having a divorce sale and I purchased it for $75.00. Wasn't aware of the original speaker was a Music Man make. When I bought it, there's a Celestion G12 K85 which is now dry rotted. Also it's missing the reverb and the foot switch. I performed with the amp for a while and it worked great, but shelved it for newer technologies. The reason for my euphoria with this post was that I never bothered to research for the original specs, thusly never knew how to use it properly. With all that said, I'm going to have to speaker re-coned and search for a replacement reverb unit (?) and foot switch. Then bringing this amp back to the stage. I you can direct me to where I could find those replacement components, and hopefully they are not too hard to find, I'd appreciate it. Thanks...!
You can easily make a foot switch with some phono jacks and a stomp switch. It plugs into the jacks closest to the tubes under the amp. The other two are for the reverb.
Have one in amp room since middle 80's. Used it live and in studio. Nice, it's a bit on bright side. Great informative video, you didn't demo the gain side.
Got one of these myself does anybody know what he he line in and outs are in fact for? The info I can find is a bit too complicated for a beginner such as myself
Great amp, good demo but if you got a pro to do that grill cloth, he should be looking for a new profession, that cloth really let it down I’m afraid..
Iave had one for forty yrs still sounds great till this day
The tag on the back, 8111, thats the date code. November 1981. I have two 100 watt versions of these. One with the original EVM-12S and the other with a british made G12H-100. My main unit is my two piece version, The 100RD head and the One 12 with the EVM-12L speaker. It has the longer EV and the cabinet sounds better (bigger) than the combo. I've been using this amp exclusively since I bought it in 1981. All through the metal 80's! Yes, these are clean amps, but they dirty up VERY nice! I would wheel my little amp in front of all those marshall stacks and people would laugh.....until they heard it! "How can that little amp be THAT loud!" Yep, still have it and I'm using it in my band today. Sorry, but you need to install the grille cloth from the TOP down! Take your time and watch the pattern as you stretch it. You really need to either fix what you have or re-do it. Too crooked. Seriously, you got the badge on crooked too!?? Yes, they ARE two channel amps! I use that as the lead channel. Never trust a sound man to turn your leads up...do it yourself. You don't have to crank these amps to make them "dirty". Crank the gain! They sound the same at 1 as they do at 10. Yes, they LOVE effects.
That Grill cloth crooked between middle and base drives me insane
Autism
Thanks for documenting this amp, and your restoration of it. All Music Man amps are super cool, but the RD models are IMO the top of the bunch.
Over the years, I have come to prefer Music Man over Fender amps. Mainly because MM amps tend to sound very good at basically any volume level. In contrast to Fender amps, which tend to sound really good at one specific volume.
OMG so glad you posted this demonstration...!
I purchased the Music Man 112 RP 100 back in 1987. The seller was having a divorce sale and I purchased it for $75.00. Wasn't aware of the original speaker was a Music Man make. When I bought it, there's a Celestion G12 K85 which is now dry rotted. Also it's missing the reverb and the foot switch. I performed with the amp for a while and it worked great, but shelved it for newer technologies.
The reason for my euphoria with this post was that I never bothered to research for the original specs, thusly never knew how to use it properly.
With all that said, I'm going to have to speaker re-coned and search for a replacement reverb unit (?) and foot switch. Then bringing this amp back to the stage.
I you can direct me to where I could find those replacement components, and hopefully they are not too hard to find, I'd appreciate it. Thanks...!
You can easily make a foot switch with some phono jacks and a stomp switch. It plugs into the jacks closest to the tubes under the amp. The other two are for the reverb.
Great review! Showed tones and features very nicely. Thanks!
I agree.. There is one for $699 at the local store.
Damn I wasn’t hoping y’all would’ve put a distortion pedal into it
Have one in amp room since middle 80's. Used it live and in studio. Nice, it's a bit on bright side. Great informative video, you didn't demo the gain side.
Nice for a hybrid, these amps are indestructible
Nice job. Always wanted one of these.
Looks like Stevie Wonder did the work on that grill cloth.
switch in high position you get full plate voltage.
Killer tone
These are cool but the 112 RD 50 is my absolute favorite MM amp.
RD's are 80's amps to best of my knowledge.......Black on silver label = 80's & Silver on black = 80's
I still have one,..bought it in '79,...
the earlier ones did have a tube rectifier.
Phase inverter I think. Pretty sure rectifier is solid state.
Great amp and nice sound.
Great amps. I only own 6 of them now. Down from 15! I had one or two of each model! Too heavy to move them.
Yes they are!
Haa soon you said dan wexler... I saw them st paul, mn Ryan's corner in 80"s
Why, oh, why did I sell that thing?????
Leo said the preamp was supposed to be tube and the power section solid state. But they messed up.
it is 2 channel. music man speaker 1x12 18oz mag.
do you know anything about the loops?... I got the same musicman rp 210 one but i dont know if it has efect loop.. great amp!
Got one of these myself does anybody know what he he line in and outs are in fact for? The info I can find is a bit too complicated for a beginner such as myself
Do these take dirt pedals well?
Nice demo guys
It sounds pretty boxy. But going into a cab would sound sick
Tom Walker designed the music man amps.
Cameraman sounds a bit like Frusciante
Funny, cuz the guy starts playing Under The Bridge at the end. 😄
Sounds nothing like frusciante
He sounds like flea.
nice referb. grill cloth job could be better.
I want it
Have the same amp,...it could use new corners,....
Great amp, good demo but if you got a pro to do that grill cloth, he should be looking for a new profession, that cloth really let it down I’m afraid..
Stop f'chrissskes all the in/out camera movement.