How many watts is your home/bedroom amp?

[MikeC]

Rob, which Creamback model?

[MikeC]

Of interest perhaps... SPL = Sound Pressure Level.

SPL is measured with 1 Watt RMS of speaker input power and a microphone placed 1 meter away from the speaker.
NOTE, different speaker manufacturers use different procedures to measure SPL but in this case the speakers are all by the same manufacturer.

Alnico Blue: 100dB SPL
Alnico Cream: 100dB SPL
Creamback G12H-75: 100dB SPL (Heavy magnet)
Creamback G12M-65: 97dB SPL (Medium magnet)

3dB SPL is noticeable (loudness) to the human ear. 10dB SPL is approx twice as loud to the human ear.

[robthemac]

Rob, which Creamback model?

G12H-75. So hopefully ballpark loudness c.f. Blue.

[MikeC]

Rob, which Creamback model?

G12H-75. So hopefully ballpark loudness c.f. Blue.

Yes

[robthemac]

Rob, which Creamback model?

G12H-75. So hopefully ballpark loudness c.f. Blue.

Yes

I remember when you assembled this amp, you commented on it being "strident". Very true. Not a lot of warmth or sparkle, very mid-focused. But wind that volume control past 10 o'clock, and everything just comes together so well. All of a sudden it's creamy, crunchy, smooth...

[Timoes]

Ahh fuck the neigbours. I play through anything I choose. 0.5w Vox ac4 through to JCM 800 or 2000 stacked.

[MikeC]

G12H-75. So hopefully ballpark loudness c.f. Blue.

Yes

I remember when you assembled this amp, you commented on it being "strident". Very true. Not a lot of warmth or sparkle, very mid-focused. But wind that volume control past 10 o'clock, and everything just comes together so well. All of a sudden it's creamy, crunchy, smooth...

Oh that Marshall clone, I remember. So many factors...

[Dharmajester]

Jtm 45, Super, Park 75, so all around the 35-50 watt area.
All through 100db sens speakers.
Fortunately I'm well equipped with attenuation options

[Mattress5]

Home/Bedroom amp? Yamaha THR10ii

[murky]

AC30’s or 50/100w Marshalls. Always cranked through a Fryette PS100 or Alex Attenuators. Good attenuator kind of makes wattage irrelevant in terms of volume.

[GrantB]

I don't have any non MV amps anymore. Despite loving them.

The Princeton with the Night Light Jr is...well...sublime and the benchmark amp. MikeC SRT has a great master voltage/volume/squeezy thing...so I can get that very low.

65Amps and ÷13 just don't work at really low volumes. Especially the 13...it's like a v8 hot rod, with a tank of 100 Octane, and a touchy throttle. One wrong move live and the front row evaporates.

[kdawg2a]

I'm not sure how many watts it is, but I use one of these;

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[Aquila Rossa]

50 watt JMP clone into two 4x12 cabs. No master volume. Amp on ten. That's the weekend bedroom setup for when people in the surrounding suburbs might be less inclined to call the old bill or noise police. Well, it's the living room setup really.

I use the Angus settings pretty much. Amp on 10. Low presence, low bass, mids and treble a tad below half. Seems to work well for either PAF style pups, or for JBs and Super Distortion ones. I like just getting the lad to do the playing while I do the dialing. I am better at dialing in tones when I do not have a guitar in my hands for some reason -- maybe because I dial in what sounds best for playing riffs, rather than what makes the noodling lead stuff easier to do. When I get it right we both get grinning ear to ear. A glorious noise. Kerrang!

The rest of the time it's my Friedman IR-X into DAW. It can sound very good, but it ain't no Plexi, even when running through a tube power amp (the tone is more refined and stuff).

I have a bunch of gadgets and pedals I am supposed to have wired up so it's all ready to go just by turning on the power strip. The idea is I can run via whatever pedals I want either to the JMP, or to the IR-X, or even to both. I can choose to use the Freyette Power Station as a reactive load for the Plexi, or as a power amp for the IR-X, or not not use it at all (the Plexi sounds best on max without the Power Station, although the PS-2A can make it sound better and feel better if boosting the Plexi hard).

I also have this thing called a KMA Endgame that I might sell. I do not like the doubling effect at all and I prefer using IRs in the IR-X, but it does have some handy routing uses. It can take the IR-X balanced out signal and turn it into two XLR outputs to send to DAW for easy stereo. It also has a stereo FX loop, which makes for an easy way to patch in my unused G-Force rack unit, or the H90 I am hankering for (I do not really want to spend that much for effects I can do with plugins though, while the JMP sounds best dry as bones).

But I still have not got around to fully patching everything in like that yet. Even though in theory it should all work how I want. Wires and stuff just piss me off. I am also not keen on having stuff powered up if not being used.

Yeah, it's four in the morning. I woke up at midnight and could not get back to sleep and it's been like that for several days. Crook again and sore. Same old, same old. Whatever.

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[Aquila Rossa]

It's fascinating, 30w rms clean on the oscope into a dummy load is the same amount of power no matter what amp is producing it. Just goes to demonstrate how many other factors contribute to the sound volume. Ive read that the Beatles needed more powerful amps than AC30s to hear themselves above the screaming so along came AC50s! Fun stuff for an amp nerd like me

I saw a Mick Ronson interview where he described the screaming girls at those concerts. He said puddles of urine were flowing down the isles and rows of the theater like little waterfalls and that it got quite wiffy due to the heat. If he's for real, then that's some intense hysteria, or pissteria. I never really understood it. Girls just wanna have fun I guess .

[jeremyb]

I'm not sure how many watts it is, but I use one of these;

Is there a speaker and amp inside it to make the noise or how else does it work?!?!!??!?