zedhed71 wrote:All this makes me feel like Im currently residing in the overkill department.....My "practice" rig at the moment is, Mesa electradyne on a 4x12 with a 2x12 off to the side angled up plus the slave out on the mesa into a fender performer 1x12 sitting on another 1x12 extension cab and the stereo out on the pedal board going into a peavey delta blues 1x15 (also angled up)on the other side of the room.
All this makes for an astounding wee whoa zone after a couple of vodkas....
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Room is still a work in progress...wall to finish,carpet to lay and lots more chinese lanterns to hang(great cheap bass traps!!)
LucyTheSpud wrote:See, my amps of choice: Plexi's. Mine sounds terrible until its pushed.
PPIMV helps.
Mine has been modded for one. It does help, but with the master below 9oclock (11oclock is my low gig volume) the amp sounds really choked and thin. Plexi's need to breathe.
My Jet City head has a Mojave Power Reduction circuit built in from McPherson Stompboxes. It essentially lowers the voltage going through the power tubes yet you can still get a wonderful compressed thick sound as though it was cranked. Different to a attenuator apparently, easier on the tubes from what I understand. As the Mojave dial gets turned up, the volume drops and more gain and compression enters.
griff7628 wrote:My Jet City head has a Mojave Power Reduction circuit built in from McPherson Stompboxes. It essentially lowers the voltage going through the power valves yet you can still get a wonderful compressed thick sound as though it was cranked. Different to a attenuator apparently, easier on the valves from what I understand. As the Mojave dial gets turned up, the volume drops and more gain and compression enters.
that sounds like a great mod, would love to hear it in action
If Less is More Then Just Think How Much More More would be
Speaking as an old git who has played through most permutations of amps, cabs and speakers and after seeking the elusive big tone through small amps solution in recent years I can say unequivocaly that it is in no way the same experience and consequently am back to a quad box and cranked heads. Fortunately I live in the wop wops so there's no one to complain, however my ears prefer to be in a different room to the cab. Fryette Power Station incoming
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Dharmajester wrote:Speaking as an old git who has played through most permutations of amps, cabs and speakers and after seeking the elusive big tone through small amps solution in recent years I can say unequivocaly that it is in no way the same experience and consequently am back to a quad box and cranked heads. Fortunately I live in the wop wops so there's no one to complain, however my ears prefer to be in a different room to the cab. Fryette Power Station incoming
Because Fletcher-munson apparently
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
Running amp sims seems to be the way to go for low volume practice. Small amps running at a fraction of a watt sound like exactly that, where as a good amp and cab sim running thru a DAW into monitors can get pretty convincing at sounding like a big amp miked up and mixed.