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I'm asking this mainly in regard to bass, but I guess
it applies to guitar as well. With a 100 watt
Vibrosonic I don't think that volume will ever be an
issue with me on guitar, but I gig as a bassist and up
to this point have been using a solid state 100 watt
Ampeg B100R combo with a single 15" speaker. Sounds
good at every volume I've played it at and has been
suitably loud for small rooms to medium-sized bars. I
recently got an opportunity to purchase an early 70's
Sunn Sonaro head for cheap and did it. Point to
point, all-tube head for about $200 that puts out
around 65 watts I'm told.
I don't have a cabinet so I took the head over to a
friend's house and plugged it into his 2x15 cabinet
and on 5 the thing was noticeably louder than my
little Ampeg combo and sounded absolutely killer. My
friend, who had practically beseached me to buy this
head, has been using one for a while (he has been
gigging for a long time) and swears by it. He uses
this instead of his newer, higher-powered SWR head.
Now all the guys over at the Fender bass forum
immediately scoff at the idea of using this head for
anything except for small practices because of it's
wattage, citing headroom, break-up, etc, but so far
I've gotten by with 100 watts solid state and this 65
watt tube amp seems to be crankin' more than enough to
keep up with that.
My questions are--should I purchase a larger cabinet,
such as a 2x15, instead of a smaller 1x15 or 2x10? I
know that the more square inches of speaker you have
on stage, the more volume you can push, right? Would
the head be as loud with 1x15 as with 2? If I am on
the line in terms of suitable stage wattage, do I need
more speakers to make up for this? Or should I
relegate this to practice amp and start shopping for a
higher-powered head?
Richard
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