power handling for guitar amps?

[Yossarian]

I'm trying to help my guitarist get a new rig... he's looking at some avatar cabs and probably a Peavey 6505, and I'm just curious, how close to matching do you want the wattage on your guitar head and the handling on your cab to be?

the 6505 is 120W and a lot of the avatar speaker configs come out to 120W... I know that'd be fine for bass, but is it any different for guitar amps? Sorry if it's a silly question, I just don't want to steer him wrong.

If anyone has any specific speaker suggestions for a punk/rock/etc guitarist, by the way, feel free to mention it. Thanks!

[bluestarbass]

This company warehousespeakers.com Has amazing knockoff celestions at insane prices. I wanted some greenbacks in a new cab I had. Celestion ones were like $140. The warehouse clones called Green Berets were $45. Those only have a 25 watt handling but they have vintage 30 clones for the same price. I cant help your question, becuase I basically have the same question.

I bought a cab on lopoline.com and put the speakers in and I had a reall nice cab for about half of what any other company wanted.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Same rules apply id say, just as long as the power handling of the speaker cab is at least the max output of the amp you should be ok, if its less, you will probably be ok as long as you dont go too daft

[bluestarbass]

This issue is guitar amps power ratings work a little different than bass. I run a 1000 watt amp into a cab rated for 600 watts fine. Bass amps rating, especially solid state, are a pretty actual approximation of the wattage. Most tube guitar amps are rated clean headroom, meaning if its 30 watts, its basically 30 watts clean. When you push it into overdrive its putting out more watts or dB's im not sure. I was told youd be safe with double the wattage handling for the cab than what the amp puts out. I run a 30-60 watt amp (switchable rectifier) into a 50 watt cab and I was told I should be worried. I dont push it all that hard though so im sure itll be fine.

[bluestarbass]

I ran across this discussion. It may be of more help.

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...d.php?t=340971