100 watts tube sufficient?

[RoadRanger]

I've got a Pignose B100V tube combo amp, it's plenty loud to play small clubs with no PA support. Nice tone also, too bad they didn't sell.

Actually Ampeg threatened to sue them and they had to cave since they didn't have the money to defend themselves. The amp was designed by Ampeg's former tube amp designer.

I have one too - really need to convert it into a head...

 

[Razman]

in the late Seventies I built a 150W tube amp that I had designed. It worked well and lasted until I designed and built a 200W per channel SS unit.

These days playing through comparatively inefficient 2x10 speaker cabinets, I need sufficient power to operate them at their best. Tubes can’t give me that.

Ha! I checked and my hunch was correct - couple Acme B2's and yeah, totally get it. Lemme guess again, vertical 410 stack? I'll bet that sounds good. I wanted to do the same thing but then I acquired a 212 so until I get a domicile with more room my ability to collect is on hold.

I haven't played with the Mesa through the 212 but I may do that just for grins. One amp I haven't had is a GK Fusion 550. That's what I'd really like to drive my cab with.

 

[Dr F clef]

I play a V4B reissue through a 2x10 and 1x15. Our band plays bars where there's up to 150-200 people. It has always been plenty loud without much dirt. If I need it dirtier, there's certainly room for that as the volumes we play at mean I'm pushing the master volume to about noon-2 or so, and the gain at about noon or so. Also, we have a guitarist who insists on playing excessively loud, so by the end of the gig, the rest of us have all increased our volume well above where we started. Even then, it still has plenty of headroom. Hope this helps.

Oh, also, none of us DI, so the amp is providing all the volume.

 

[coreyfyfe]

Actually Ampeg threatened to sue them and they had to cave since they didn't have the money to defend themselves. The amp was designed by Ampeg's former tube amp designer.

Never heard that before. Would really surprise me if it was true, there's nothing about the amp that would warrant a lawsuit in my mind.

Dennis Kager is the guy, he had left Ampeg a few decades before designing these and other amps for Pignose, and had run a few companies of his own as well as consulted for a number of companies on tube amp designs.

 

[JimmyM]

Never heard that before. Would really surprise me if it was true, there's nothing about the amp that would warrant a lawsuit in my mind.

Dennis Kager is the guy, he had left Ampeg a few decades before designing these and other amps for Pignose, and had run a few companies of his own as well as consulted for a number of companies on tube amp designs.

I couldn't find anything about a lawsuit or threat of lawsuit either, and Pignose said it got discontinued from lack of interest.