Can You Crank Your Amp?

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I have a JSX head on a Celestion loaded Crate cab and a Peavey Classic 120 power amp w/ a Rockmaster preamp on an Ampeg 4x12 tied together w/ an A/B/Y box and I get to crank the master to 8 every Friday. The neighbors start bitchin' at about 10:00 and that's when I switch from metal to blues and that buys me another hour and a half. Fargin A!:smokin:
 
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With the vox AD120VTH - I can crank the amp and still have very reasonable volumes.

With the Edana, I can only get loud volumes. The Mass 100 takes it right down to tolerable/non-earsplitting levels without killing the tone too badly.

I crank the Edana where noone else could be around at the time to be considerate. I crank the Vox just about anywhere I please.
 
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Yess.My amp is 50 watts and i play it mostly on 8 of 10.I gig allmost regularly ,so i have allways the possibility to krank it on 10!
 
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I can crank my 18w TMB, but play w/my guitar vol down a bit at home, and leave the amp b/w 6-8. When I jam it's always at about 8-9, and I work the guitar vol for the grit.
 
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Where I live now ALMOST NEVER! My landlord runs his business in the room right above me. He leaves at about 5:30 PM at 6:00 PM the Beotch tenant upstairs comes home from work. (She complains about my kid crying):irate:
So I have a ultra small window of opportunity to run ANY AMP. I built my 5f2-A 5W Princeton clone hoping that would solve the problem, But that Lil' sucker cranked 8" speaker in all rattles my walls. I have yet to play my 2204 pass 5. My HRD and even my Princeton Reverb are to loud for this place. So between gigs... My amps get VERY DUSTY!:headache:
 
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I don't crank, I KRANK :smokin:.

Can't at home of course, parents would kill me.

But at band pratice, playin in a heavy metal band, my drummer's got a loud-as-**** fibes acrylic kit, and the other guitarist has a Marshall DSL 50 watter and a 412.

My KRANK and 212 cab are right at home. :bigok:
 
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when I had my jcm 800 marshall, I did not know about attenuators and it was 100 watts.

it had alot of bass.

I dont want to step to a 50watt with less bass - I am thinking attenuator and a 2x12 cab are the key to the future
 
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i think from what i'm reading here is the market would be huge for a low low low wattage high gain quality built amp.... I'd love to find a 15-20 watt amp that could give me the tone of my 5150... most of the crazy gain from a 5150 seems to be from the preamp anyways...
 
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<cough>Valvetronix, Chris</cough>

Seriously. It's almost midnight and I'm sitting here jamming away on the Soldano model on my AD50 with the wattage selector set really low yet the amp's MV is up near 9 o'clock. I can still hear my pick on the strings a little and it sounds really good. Go look at the AD15 and AD50.
 
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WhoFan said:
i think from what i'm reading here is the market would be huge for a low low low wattage high gain quality built amp.... I'd love to find a 15-20 watt amp that could give me the tone of my 5150... most of the crazy gain from a 5150 seems to be from the preamp anyways...
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Just buy a 5150 damnit.

If you want a 100watt bedroom halfstack that you can play with people in the house without bothering them, it's what you need.

Why castrate a few tubes and the transformers?
 
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WhoFan said:
i think from what i'm reading here is the market would be huge for a low low low wattage high gain quality built amp.... I'd love to find a 15-20 watt amp that could give me the tone of my 5150... most of the crazy gain from a 5150 seems to be from the preamp anyways...
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This is what I'm getting from this thread as well. So many players with high-wattage amps they can't use the way they're built to use...myself included. There's a reason why those volume knobs go past 3.

- Keith
 
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ErikH said:
<cough>Valvetronix, Chris</cough>

Seriously. It's almost midnight and I'm sitting here jamming away on the Soldano model on my AD50 with the wattage selector set really low yet the amp's MV is up near 9 o'clock. I can still hear my pick on the strings a little and it sounds really good. Go look at the AD15 and AD50.
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ya i'm still looking at them... But i just bought a Fender SS amp and will be short on funds for a while
 
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lex666 said:
I've got a Marshall TSL602 on top of a TSLC212 2x12 cab...

I've only 1 neighbor next door, and 1 neighbor on the the other side of a cement wall behind me, so I get to crank that baby up on a daily basis. My home is pretty much surrounded on 3 sides with this 5 foot cement wall which really helps the noise from travelling and disturbing the neighbors. I keep my amp in my living room/home theater and often crank my home theater really loud too. Every once in a while, I'll put on an AC/DC DVD or something and jam along! Its like playing in front of 50,000 people with the band backing you...

Anyways, I get my Marshall cookin' up to around 7 or 8 (2:00) on the MV. Its VERY LOUD!! But thats hittin' the sweet spot. :smokin:


Can't wait to get a Mesa and see what that will do...
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hey man can you do me a favor and post clips of your maesa when you get it please? i'm thinking of buying one.:fingersx:
 
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Mephis said:
Just buy a 5150 damnit.

If you want a 100watt bedroom halfstack that you can play with people in the house without bothering them, it's what you need.

Why castrate a few tubes and the transformers?
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I have a full 5150 stack.... well half stack... i just found my bills for them... bought it from Peavey direct.... Total of $287 for the cab... $465 for the head....

My large rig is big.... a 5150 head, with a custom switcher unit to A/B to a Classic 50 head, a 5150 cab... massive sound!

Plus i have Marshall and Fender heads as well... lots of combos.... a original 65 Deluxe amp is my only real vintage piece...

i could blow a few people out of the house!!! :)
 
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KGMESSIER said:
This is what I'm getting from this thread as well. So many players with high-wattage amps they can't use the way they're built to use...myself included. There's a reason why those volume knobs go past 3.

- Keith
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When i had a band i was able to use my tube amps a fair bit... "BUT"... some clubs with the 5150 stack i'd run into volume issues and my sound would not be out in the PA at all... Sound guys would give me hell some times. Cops used to show up to our practices and some gigs when i had the big rig going.

A few outdoor shows i did with less then perfect PA gear i had my 5150 cranked pretty good...

I switch from teh 5150 cab to a 1x12 cab to cut some of the boom with that rig and it worked...
 
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