Frank smith wrote: > One thing I had trouble learning as a guitarist > with a stack is that sounds projects and Marshals and such develop sound > quite a few feet in front > of the player. So you think it's not that loud but the poor people > watching you get haircuts!! Yeah, and a 100 watt head needs to be turned up quite a bit to drive two 4x12 cabinets... for smaller venues, using just a single 4x12 is going to be adequate (usually at about 4 or 5 you will get that classic Marshall crunch). A smaller combo (50 watts) starts really crunching around 2 or 3... unless you have a dual-channel lead models like the JCM800 or higher, and you can have a nice clean sound at a good volume also. Of course, this is for the tube amps... the solid state *shudder* Marshalls don't require to be turned up as much before they start crunching. -- Brett > Cheers > Bob > > > > tim hall wrote: > >> Last Wednesday 06 July 2005 00:57, Brett McCoy was like: >> >> >>> And I will also contend that if the guitarist using a 100 watt Marshall >>> is more powerful than the PA, he's got no business playing a full stack >>> onstage. For most gigs I've found a 50 watt combo (also Marshall) to be >>> more than adequate... >>> >> >> >> It's not that simple. >> >> 1) Marshalls don't turn down that well, even if you have one of those >> half-power switches on the back you can still saturate small venues >> without really trying. And some people can only afford one amp. If >> you're the engineer you're going to have to deal with whatever random >> equipment combination they throw at you. >> >> 2) Everybody does it. This phenomenon is not isolated to lead >> guitarists. For some reason, what is obvious to anyone standing in the >> hall is not obvious when you're holding a plugged in instrument. In >> many venues, the right volume for the mix is too quiet for the player. >> Finding players who don't sneak up their on-stage sound while the >> engineer isn't looking is a rare treat. >> >> Good monitoring can help ~(again, you need everything going through >> the desk to achieve this) >> >> 3) The drummer always plays the gig at twice the velocity and volume >> of the soundcheck. >> 4) Of course it'll sound completely different once you've got an >> audience in there. ;p (seriously though, a good audience runs at >> around 100dB) >> >> cheers, >> >> tim hall >> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk >> >> >> >> > -- -- Brett ----------- Programmer by day, Guitarist by Night http://www.chapelperilous.net http://www.alhazred.com http://www.revelmoon.com
