Advice for all you amp buyers

[Rich_S]

I was in a music store at lunchtime, picking up some stocking-stuffers. As I was checking out, a guy at the other end of the counter apparently asked about guitar amps. The salesman's immediate response (verbatim, or almost):

Well, the bigger the amp, the better the tone. Obviously, you should buy the biggest amp you can afford.

[PFDarkside]

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All right! I'm going to forget about Scott's Franklin and dig out my old Zoom 505... then plug it into a new Crown 1500W PA amp!

[Rich_S]

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Yeah, man! Just make sure you have enough speakers for it. Eight 4x12's loaded with V30's should be perfect.

[Scott_F]

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Bwahahaha! GC sales guys rule!

[Telesexual]

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Can't blame the hustlers when they work on commission

[Rich_S]

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Bwahahaha! GC sales guys rule!

Now, why would you automatically assume it was GC, hmmmm?

For the record, it was H & H.

[Scott_F]

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Because I know where you live. I'm making a SWAG that it's the GC on 45 near Baybrook. Okay, H&H in Baybrook. that's cool.

[PUCKBOY99]

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Bigger equals better...........CHECK!!!



Were you shopping via a Cosmo mag????

[Sludgenutz]

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As a budding guitar player in the dark ages, I would not have needed that fool to tell me the bigger the amp the better. I ALREADY KNEW THAT!!

All is not lost, as I still have my 150 watt Sunn 25 years later. The 4x12 is loooong gone.

[More-Gear-Than-Skill]

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wisdom finds us in unlikely places and ways...

[shark]

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those salesmen are the reason that I 'm now stuck with a marshall mg100dfx

wish I discovered this place earlier

[Rich_S]

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All is not lost, as I still have my 150 watt Sunn 25 years later.

Obviously, you didn't get the message. In Sunn's world, the Model T is a small amp.

The Model T is a nice amp. Is yours the old grey-grill kind, or the early-80's white-and-red trim? I used to have a white-and-red 2x12 cab, with the 12's loaded into a short, straight horn. Looked like something John Entwistle would have owned, but I used it for guitar with a Hiwatt DR103. I blame that rig for the touch of tinnitus in my right ear.

Because I know where you live. I'm making a SWAG that it's the GC on 45 near Baybrook. Okay, H&H in Baybrook. that's cool.

Hah - but you don't know where I work, smarty-pants! It was the H&H on Fairmont, just off Beltway 8 in Pasadena.


The funny thing was, when he said it, I was literally shaking. I so wanted to blurt out, "My 13 Watter is both the best-sounding and least powerful amplifier I've ever owned!" (OK, not counting that first Tempo 1x8 SS amp that my parents bought me for Christmas from Lafayette Electronics; that was only 5 watts. And its predecessor, a converted Hallicrafters shortwave radio that shocked the hell outta me every time I used it - that was probably only a watt or so. I'm sure they both sounded like cr@p.) But it's their store, so they can say what they want I suppose, as long as they're not saying it to me, and I know better than to ask.

[WhoFan]

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Yeah, man! Just make sure you have enough speakers for it. Eight 4x12's loaded with V30's should be perfect.

I only need 6 Hiwatt cabs for my bedroom.....