jeremyb wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:18 am
Home use is probably the only place for large tube amps any more, sound guys at gigs are gonna want you to turn down as the PA does all the heavy lifting these days, but having to run an attenuator kinda feels like stuffing a potato in the exhaust of your V10 lambo
Genuine question JB. Which sound guys where?
I've never had that happen. Well, except once in 2003. The guy doing sound for our return gig/Private party (one of the top soundies in NZ who I won't name here) saw our Marshall half stacks and came up to tell us we needed to turn down.
Me, being a bit of a dick, told him "well, you shoulda bought a bigger PA!"
He looks at me for a bit and then, to his credit and cool as a cucumber, left and came back with more high powered speakers!
It wasn't sound guys as much as venue owners, at least in my experience of the Auckland wedding/covers scene circa 2005-2017. Constant quoting of noise limits (one guy comically suggesting 80dB), use of decibel metres, worried managers, but very few actual complaints.
Ah yeah. Different scenario but kind fair enough.
I remember at my wedding we had the MC announce before we’d left the church, there was no seating plan at the function room. But there would be a band. If you don’t like your conversation drowned out, you’re advised to choose a table as far away from the stage as possible.
I've never had that happen. Well, except once in 2003. The guy doing sound for our return gig/Private party (one of the top soundies in NZ who I won't name here) saw our Marshall half stacks and came up to tell us we needed to turn down.
Me, being a bit of a dick, told him "well, you shoulda bought a bigger PA!"
He looks at me for a bit and then, to his credit and cool as a cucumber, left and came back with more high powered speakers!
It wasn't sound guys as much as venue owners, at least in my experience of the Auckland wedding/covers scene circa 2005-2017. Constant quoting of noise limits (one guy comically suggesting 80dB), use of decibel metres, worried managers, but very few actual complaints.
Ah yeah. Different scenario but kind fair enough.
I remember at my wedding we had the MC announce before we’d left the church, there was no seating plan at the function room. But there would be a band. If you don’t like your conversation drowned out, you’re advised to choose a table as far away from the stage as possible.
Yes, allowances for a fuck-off level of noise from the band was my primary criterion for a wedding venue.
Jops wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am
Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.
NZTone.e wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 2:38 pm
Getting back to this amp though…looks like Jack White was just going for weird and wacky cause he a bit weird and wacky…
He definitely has a thing he’s going for, I’m digging the fact it’s not another 1x or 2x 12” combo, 10s and 15s are way more interesting to me…
StrummersOfThunder wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 7:05 am
I bet it would be fun
I sort of disagree about big amps and home use. I love the sound of big clean amps, particularly with a bit of attenuation. They sound different to low watt 10” amps .
There is that......
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Litterick wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 9:25 am
It is a Fender amp for guitarists who don't like Fender amps.
I dont think this is true.
Those who really like early fender amps particularly brown face models will understand the harmonic trem thing.
Jensen speakers, both 6l6 and 6v6 tubes. Back breakingly heavy. Fender look (with a twist).
If you’re gonna run separate signals to separate speakers, why mash it all into a combo? Seems like a lost opportunity to go with a head plus two cabs and get some wild stereo effects.
The homers car comparison is one of my favourites. And yes, I’d say this amp is in this camp.
Coolness and bizarre weirdness are so close together sometimes. I think this amp is a good example . It’s in the uncanny valley of amps .
RectifiedAmps wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 9:51 am
If you’re gonna run separate signals to separate speakers, why mash it all into a combo? Seems like a lost opportunity to go with a head plus two cabs and get some wild stereo effects.
Huh?!
Yet nobody has asked Roland that question of the JC-120 in the nearly 40 years it has been a much-applauded amp?
