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Yeah, but, our bassist has had some pretty loud new Ampeg amps, and
none have the thunder that his '66 Dual Showman has. The 70s ruined
so much....
--- In , "mono_tones_1" <rockverb@h...>
wrote:
>
> that's my impression too - it mostly the speakers though, not the
> amps so much - it seems to me that speaker's power handling has
> improved tremendously. If you consider that even the JBL's are
rated
> at 150RMS or so. I just looked in to them, and the 15" eminences
> don't go under 250 RMS - most are between 300 and 500...
>
> I tried, and one JBL D140F can't handle a 100 watt bassman... so
> you'd need that headroom, and a 100 wat bassamp is considered weak
> these days. go figure, back then they had to do it with a 40w amp
and
> 2 75 watt speakers...
>
>
> --- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've always heard that back in the first wave days
> > there wasn't much in the way of bass amps...at least
> > not compared to the kind of clout the guitar players
> > had. I was told that bass players did the best they
> > could but they didn't have near the kind of luxury we
> > do now in terms of equipment.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
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