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Got a deal brewing for a Beta Bass w/205 cab stack for $550. Picking it up later today

Footswitch included, too. Though I don't think that it's original to the amp?

Sweet score dude!!! and that looks awful similar to alot of the sunn beta / concert footswitches I've seen before. I think the beta's are 3 switches while the concert series had 2 switches.

Yeah, I thought it looked a little more like a 70's Concert footswitch. We'll see. I probably won't even use it, tbh.

LOCOPELAND wrote:Yeah, I thought it looked a little more like a 70's Concert footswitch. We'll see. I probably won't even use it, tbh.

You might not use it but you will most likely need it. IF the beta's are anything like the old concert's than the footswitch is required to access certain things such as distortion / reverb and sometimes even channel switching as they have no switches on the head its self.

Sweet score Tony. I never had a footswitch for my Beta Bass and never held me back, but it is useful if you want to switch between the different preamp channels while playing.

Thanks! Now I play the waiting game till I get out of work and hope that the deal doesn't fall through haha. The dude is local and when I talked to him on the phone he like we was happy to be dealing with someone else who is local.

You will not be dissapointed

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

LOCOPELAND wrote:Yeah, I thought it looked a little more like a 70's Concert footswitch. We'll see. I probably won't even use it, tbh.

You might not use it but you will most likely need it. IF the beta's are anything like the old concert's than the footswitch is required to access certain things such as distortion / reverb and sometimes even channel switching as they have no switches on the head its self.

The foot switch is not needed to use any of the features on the amp aside from channel switching. Being able to switch channels is nice though, you can run A, B, or both at once (ruling!). Also, the amp has 3 effects loops, one for each channel and one master loop. So if you want to switch on a bunch of effects at once you can do that by switching channels.

It is kinda weird that there are 3 buttons since the 3rd button is reverb, and the Beta Bass has no reverb.

Yeah, the reverb is what threw me off and thought that it wasn't OG with the amp. If what you say is true, then I probably won't ever need it and could probably sell it. I've already got a friend jocking me for it haha. I'll be bi-amping with another beta 205/plush 1060s. Should be beastly.

LOCOPELAND wrote:Yeah, the reverb is what threw me off and thought that it wasn't OG with the amp. If what you say is true, then I probably won't ever need it and could probably sell it. I've already got a friend jocking me for it haha. I'll be bi-amping with another beta 205/plush 1060s. Should be beastly.

The resale value on those switches is pretty good. And if you ever felt like you wanted to be able to switch channels again you could always buy an ABY switch and use that in front of the amp (since there is no verb anyway).

John Matrix wrote:

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

LOCOPELAND wrote:Yeah, I thought it looked a little more like a 70's Concert footswitch. We'll see. I probably won't even use it, tbh.

You might not use it but you will most likely need it. IF the beta's are anything like the old concert's than the footswitch is required to access certain things such as distortion / reverb and sometimes even channel switching as they have no switches on the head its self.

The foot switch is not needed to use any of the features on the amp aside from channel switching. Being able to switch channels is nice though, you can run A, B, or both at once (ruling!). Also, the amp has 3 effects loops, one for each channel and one master loop. So if you want to switch on a bunch of effects at once you can do that by switching channels.

It is kinda weird that there are 3 buttons since the 3rd button is reverb, and the Beta Bass has no reverb.

Okay awesome, that's why I put that IF in my comment cause I know with the concert lead's / bass's you need the footswitch to at least turn on the distortion as there was no way to do it on the actual head but I wasn't sure how these were wired.

Got it! Plugged everything in for a split sec to make sure everything worked good. Aside from the two broken off mid knobs and some scratchy pots, this thing is beast. Loud as fuuuuuuuuuuu

Dude threw in the channel selector and a crybaby wah I didn't ask for for free, too. Win!

If you don't want the channel selector I may be interested.

But seriously, good score. Pretty good price since the cab was included.