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After almost 10 years in Limbo I finally began itching for playing in a band again last year. At the moment I am doing my PhD abroad, but once I get back to Norway, USSR next year I was hoping to finish a new rig of mine, which has some rather… peculiar amp challenges.
The rig will be a rack rig, although I may augment it with a very special amp if money allows for it later. I still have a pair of ADA MP-1s, and will be basing my rig around that and a Marshall 9040 power amp. Yes, it IS solid state, but for this style I don't think it matters too much (after some tweaking I think I can get a good sound of it), and in a live setting I actually prefer it for reliability and size.
It is, however, creating something of a bottleneck in my plans. I was planning to run a stereo set-up, and the power amp is rated 200x2 watts. Of course, it is fair to say in general that a solid state power amp will not be NEARLY as loud as a tube power amp, so even at 400w it should be able to get a decent sound out of it for smaller venues (solid state is an advantage here, of course). It does, however, mean that the speakers should be able to stand up to some heavy wattage without succumbing to pressure.
I have a 4x12 (an early Metropolous cabinet) with Greenbacks, which sounds great in a more conventional rig, but which fails both in terms of size and wattage here. In the future I was looking to replace it with two 2x12s. I was basically wondering if you have any suggestions for speakers around 100w (they can be a little lower, but not too much), that would work in a heavy rock context. This rig is obviously more 80s (late-80s even) than 70s, but is still very much a take on the obnoxiously hyper-charged Marshall, that is bound to conjure groans of disapproval and exasperation .from any right-thinking guitarist. Do you have any recommendations, both in terms of cabinets and speakers? I really like the Greenback sound, as it gives what could otherwise be a very sterile, modern sounding rig something of a vintage edge. If something like that could be approximated at this wattage that would be excellent.
Finally there is yet another potentially complicating factor. If my career progress and the currency rates allow it I might be getting a smaller head for pure tones and slave the rack for effects only. In such a case, would it be possible for one of the cabinets to be run by a smaller tube amp, say 25-50w, and still have it pushed properly? I also have a Marshall 9100 power amp that contains two 50w 2xEL34 power amps that I might change to should the difference prove to be too great, and naturally I would hope that the cabinets would work with it as well.
(Sorry about the naïvety of the questions. I have never really had the chance to experiment much with cabs.)
The rig will be a rack rig, although I may augment it with a very special amp if money allows for it later. I still have a pair of ADA MP-1s, and will be basing my rig around that and a Marshall 9040 power amp. Yes, it IS solid state, but for this style I don't think it matters too much (after some tweaking I think I can get a good sound of it), and in a live setting I actually prefer it for reliability and size.
It is, however, creating something of a bottleneck in my plans. I was planning to run a stereo set-up, and the power amp is rated 200x2 watts. Of course, it is fair to say in general that a solid state power amp will not be NEARLY as loud as a tube power amp, so even at 400w it should be able to get a decent sound out of it for smaller venues (solid state is an advantage here, of course). It does, however, mean that the speakers should be able to stand up to some heavy wattage without succumbing to pressure.
I have a 4x12 (an early Metropolous cabinet) with Greenbacks, which sounds great in a more conventional rig, but which fails both in terms of size and wattage here. In the future I was looking to replace it with two 2x12s. I was basically wondering if you have any suggestions for speakers around 100w (they can be a little lower, but not too much), that would work in a heavy rock context. This rig is obviously more 80s (late-80s even) than 70s, but is still very much a take on the obnoxiously hyper-charged Marshall, that is bound to conjure groans of disapproval and exasperation .from any right-thinking guitarist. Do you have any recommendations, both in terms of cabinets and speakers? I really like the Greenback sound, as it gives what could otherwise be a very sterile, modern sounding rig something of a vintage edge. If something like that could be approximated at this wattage that would be excellent.
Finally there is yet another potentially complicating factor. If my career progress and the currency rates allow it I might be getting a smaller head for pure tones and slave the rack for effects only. In such a case, would it be possible for one of the cabinets to be run by a smaller tube amp, say 25-50w, and still have it pushed properly? I also have a Marshall 9100 power amp that contains two 50w 2xEL34 power amps that I might change to should the difference prove to be too great, and naturally I would hope that the cabinets would work with it as well.
(Sorry about the naïvety of the questions. I have never really had the chance to experiment much with cabs.)
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