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Can my Peavey Basic 112 could hold it's own?

#21
I regret to say that the skinny string players will bury you. To play with a couple of guitarists each with a 100 watts...you should probably have 500 and a 410, or a couple of 12's. I am soory to say that your 50 watt combo will be more like a cracker box compared to the guitars and drums.

Man, I have to tell you. There are guys here who will help. One has offered you a combo on loan, and others (including me) have gear that is collecting dust. Ask, and see what happens.
 
#22
I am sure am at the other end of the spectrum here ... the OP is inquiring about a basement scenario, first rehearsal ... I wouldnt even even sit down in a room that small that the NOISE was going to be so much that my Basic 112 wouldn't handle it .. unless this is not rehearsing, but more to impress each other with guns blazin kind of deal, of course it is not going to handle it, but who will know it will just be one big mass of sound... especially with the comment of virtually nothing decent for a PA ... I might be missing something, but I dont think the original inquiry was if this 'little thing' (output, not weight :)) will hold its own in a performance situation, just in the dudes basement .. I use it all the time with two guitars that have 100+ watts each, keyboard with maybe even more, and a drummer, and we use a couple monitors for the PA ... of course we are mostly in our 60's, but we are also half (if not more) deaf ... BTW, very nice of the offers to help out until the OP can figure out what he needs or gets something more appropriate to fend off the guys bringing cannons to a knife fight ... just because you have it, doesn't mean you have to use it ... I sure dont miss that nonsense .. JMHO
 
#23
tjh said:
I am sure am at the other end of the spectrum here ... the OP is inquiring about a basement scenario, first rehearsal ... I wouldnt even even sit down in a room that small that the NOISE was going to be so much that my Basic 112 wouldn't handle it .. unless this is not rehearsing, but more to impress each other with guns blazin kind of deal, of course it is not going to handle it, but who will know it will just be one big mass of sound... especially with the comment of virtually nothing decent for a PA ... I might be missing something, but I dont think the original inquiry was if this 'little thing' (output, not weight :)) will hold its own in a performance situation, just in the dudes basement .. I use it all the time with two guitars that have 100+ watts each, keyboard with maybe even more, and a drummer, and we use a couple monitors for the PA ... of course we are mostly in our 60's, but we are also half (if not more) deaf ... BTW, very nice of the offers to help out until the OP can figure out what he needs or gets something more appropriate to fend off the guys bringing cannons to a knife fight ... just because you have it, doesn't mean you have to use it ... I sure dont miss that nonsense .. JMHO
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A basic 50 is one of my favorite combo amps - surprisingly loud .... Light ... And small

An average corner band that practices this loud has a tough time on many levels
 
#25
Well, I took a tape player/recorder there, for people who want to know it was a technics m240x, with 2 cheap mics I hung on the other side of the room, one for left, the other for right, made a sound check to make sure the tape had plenty of headroom, and this is how the levels came out. The 5150 blew everybody out of the water during distortion songs, the marshall can barely be heard doing rhythm, and I could be heard on the clean songs (turns out that the 5150 had a problem, the clean channel turned all the way up was about as loud as distortion on 4, and the marshall's speakers couldn't candle clean very good because his clean is very bassy and he has to turn clean down(now that l look at it, the head is a mini marshall but the cabs are 2 old combo amps with blown heads he told me he bought for like $20 each and he wired them to bypass the combo heads and into the marshall), so I guess his watts don't match or maybe they're just crappy speakers. On distortion songs, I can only hear myself during the small leads some songs have, all in all, it's not terrible, but I defidently have to get a bigger amp soon. The only problem l have is that the tape has ALOT of hiss, more than that tape player ever made, l guess l either had a crappy tape, or the cheap mics were hissy, or both. l can't put my amp through that every week, so l'm gonna save up for a better amp and keep my eyes peeled on craigslist...
 
#32
I gigged for 25 years with a Basic 60 12" as my single amp. 4 - 9 piece bands, horns, oldies, blues, rock. Basements to open-air stages. People have sense and can turn down sometimes. Yes, many times there was a PA. Yes, I was maybe drowned out at times when there wasn't. It was absolutely doable.
 

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