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Gallien-Krueger Stack- Will This Work?

#2
Will it work fine? You'll be able to blow down wall with it. It will even sound good.

That's quite a rig. I don't envy you having to carry it though. But you should be able to handle anything with it.

As far as price goes, that looks like a pretty good deal already. I don't know if you could get it cheaper. Maybe a few bucks.

I'd go with the company that has the best reputation. I've never used Musicians Friend and prefer to buy from a local store. Others here can tell you about MF.
 
#3
Yeah, I live in Canada, so MF is outta the question. I just posted the links so you all could see what I was talking about. I'll probably get my local music store to order it in, or order from a Canadian online store.

But it will work, like, nothing will blow up or break or anything?
 
#6
This stack would work just fine - in fact, they were designed to go together. You could break it up and go with either cabinet alone. Each cabinet should come it at 8 ohms, so together, they'll be 4 and you'll be OK with wattage.

If you love GK, as I do, you might want to look into some of their combos or their Neo series for a more portable solution. I have the 1001/2-12 combo and it does the job for any situation. Check out their website to see what they offer and where you can find a distributor.
 
#7
Thanks man, what did you mean by "you'll be OK with wattage"?

Will I get the fullest outta this? It says its like 530 watts or so, will I get it all, or most of it?

I've never tried GK (My town only has like Fender and Peavey) but I've heard and read great reviews.
 
#8
There are two very basic things to consider when looking at matching amps with cabinets - impedance and power handling.

The impedance is articulated as ohms and is a measure of the resistance amplifier will face in delivering power to the speakers (very generally put). The higher the resistance, the higher the ohms. The GK 700-RBII delivers 320 watts to an 8 ohm speaker system while it delivers 480 watts to a 4 ohm speaker system.

Here is the tricky part, putting two cabinets together will change the impedance of the speaker system (making it lower). There is a lot written on this forum about this, so read up on it before you start doing mixing and matching with amps and speakers. In this case, you are looking at what I think are two 8 ohm cabinets (I think GK cabinets are all 8 ohms, but check to be sure). Putting two 8 ohm cabinets together will create a 4 ohm speaker system. So, running a 700-RBII head into one cabinet (8 ohms) will deliver 320 watts to that cabinet and running the same head to both cabinets (4 ohms) will deliver a total of 480 watts to both cabinets. Assume the power will distributed evenly between the cabinets, so each cabinet will get 240 watts at full tilt.

Now for the power handling. Each speaker and cabinet can take only so much power, so the cabinet has to be able to handle what the amp gives it. In this case the both the 410 and the 115 can take 400 watts each, so you can run the 700-RBII at full tilt with either or both cabinets. You'll be OK with wattage. And don't worry, this is very much a professional quality rig.

Note, this all refers to the maximum power of the amp, which you would probably never actually use.
 
#9
Herrlster said:
Yeah, I live in Canada, so MF is outta the question. I just posted the links so you all could see what I was talking about. I'll probably get my local music store to order it in, or order from a Canadian online store.

But it will work, like, nothing will blow up or break or anything?
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GK is a very good amp. It puts out all the power you'll need. The speakers are very good. They can take it. You could blow almost anything up if you did something really stupid. But it's capable of enormous power and the speakers capable of playing very, very loud.

Get the speakers, each cabinet in 8 ohms. Make sure you get the GK bi0amp cable for their horn management system. You don't have to use it but you may prefer it. Read the owners manual.

No, MF won't ship to Canada. I don't know any Canadian on line stores but somebody here might. Long and McQuade is the big Canadian GK dealer. Where in Canada are you?

By the way, for a couple hundred $ more you can order the 1001 head to go with those speakers. Even more paint peeling power.
 
#10
You should have enough headroom with that, but if you have extra $$ that you would like to spend you may want to upgrade the head. Thing is, when you use the whole stack you will just about always have plenty of headroom, but when you only want to take one cab or can only fit one cab in the car or room (or you are just jamming or practicing) you rely more on extra wattage to make you loud enough. But all things considered, that is a very nice rig.
 
#11
I don't think I wanna fork a few extra hundred for the 1001. This should be fine for me, 480 watts is definitely enough for any show or any jam in my town. And plus, I want this as soon as possible my current amp (a Peavey TNT combo) doesn't hold up against my guitarists and drummer.

I live in Ontario, Canada. I'm pretty sure Link Removed delivers to Canada. So I'll most likely order from there (My local music store will mostly like throw all these crazy costs at me if I get them to get it.)

Thanks to everybody who replied to this thread and helped me out. Wooh, I'll be getting a GK rig in the next 3 months. :)
 

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