When your band members taunt you to buy a full stack....

hydro

hydro

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These boys are ridiculous. My amps are already brutally loud. All of us are well past 40 and our backs and spines probably twice that in real years. Yet today, one of the other guitar players dropped the gauntlet and said, "There is no try, there is only do" and told me I need a full stack.

He has lost his damn mind.

I already have two Mesa 4x12s but they are both slants. One has V30s, the other has C90s.

Only a complete lunatic would unload a dual recto full stack in clubs the size we play. And yet....

A C90 bottom cab matched with that V30 slant, with my dual recto.... drop tuned... good Lord.
 
Re: When your band members taunt you to buy a full stack....

Tell them they're gonna have to carry it
 
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Take both cabinets to practice, and crank them so loud that his ears bleed.
 
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If you push both of those slant cabs at the same time, is that not also a full stack?

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Was he saying this in a super loud voice?........'Cause he might already be deaf?
 
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Demanic said:
If you push both of those slant cabs at the same time, is that not also a full stack?

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Yes, and maybe if I actually hooked that up so they could hear it one time they would probably realize "Oh wow yeah maybe this isn't such a good idea after all".

I have seen cabs that Mesa made, which were pretty cool; they were slant baffle inside a regular bottom cabinet. Not sure if they still make those any more.
 
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We have been known to jam with two 100 watt half stacks for the guitar. At one time we ran them in stereo. I find I like them better with the solid state slaved to the tube amp. Needless to say, we usually only run them on about 3-4 on the master volumes. However it is nice knowing you have the ability to turn up.
 
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hydro said:
Yes, and maybe if I actually hooked that up so they could hear it one time they would probably realize "Oh wow yeah maybe this isn't such a good idea after all".

I have seen cabs that Mesa made, which were pretty cool; they were slant baffle inside a regular bottom cabinet. Not sure if they still make those any more.
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Worse, you may like it. Randal used to make a cab with 2 12"s and 1 15". Imagine two of them being pushed by 100 watts with a down tuned guitar.
 
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I just bought a "full" stack....a Mesa Mark V:25 head with the straight and slant 112 V30 cabs. I always wanted one of the little SS Marshall stacks but this is way more fun and functional. Can't wait to gig with it. I'm sure my band mates will say it's too big....and that I still play too loud, LOL!!

Bill
 
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Just be great, and appropriate. Then no-one will question your choice of gear.

(if they do, they're obviously more about image than music, and you may well need to question whether you're playing with the right people).
 
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Well he was just kidding around, but inside every joke there is a little truth hiding. He probably wouldn't think it was funny after a couple of times hauling it to gigs. What got it all started was this photo:

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A wall of Tony Iommi Laneys taken at their factory, I believe...
 
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hydro said:
I have seen cabs that Mesa made, which were pretty cool; they were slant baffle inside a regular bottom cabinet. Not sure if they still make those any more.
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The old half-back cabs as well as the full size recto 4x12s are set up like that. If you want to stack your cabs, try laying them on their sides. You'll have full stack height and a nice, wide horizontal dispersion. I also second the suggestion of telling your bandmates that they can carry the stack if they want it so badly.
 
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You need a full stack. You can't call yourself a guitarist without one.
 
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and so we see how "guitarist" and "musician" are in fact two distinctly separate concepts.

Build a lightweight empty top cab with a fake head on top, with your real head in the bottom of the fake top cab. Sorta like a hat for your head, or a Halloween costume for it. Styrofoam, foam rubber, whatever. That way it looks like you lug around 300 pounds of inappropriate amp gear like a derp, but really don't.
 
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Obligatory:

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Full stacks are fun!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Except when it's time to move them. They're not so fun then.

But they do sound badass.

B A D A S S .
 
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Show up with this:
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But print out a full size poster of a Rockerverb and tape it to your bassist's forehead.
 
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Boogie Bill said:
I just bought a "full" stack....a Mesa Mark V:25 head with the straight and slant 112 V30 cabs. I always wanted one of the little SS Marshall stacks but this is way more fun and functional. Can't wait to gig with it. I'm sure my band mates will say it's too big....and that I still play too loud, LOL!!

Bill
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Nice...

I use 2 1X12 thiele mesa cabinets, at one of the bars I play at.

If they complain, then I switch from the V25 to the Triaxis & 2:90 just to shut them up! (That gets loud)
 

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