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How much wattage do you gig with?

How much wattage do you gig with?

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#122
I play in an RBI into a QSC RMX1450 that bridges at 1400 W. I have a Seismic Audio 4x10 and 2x10 (for those of you are discouraged by the low price, these cabs destroy lower hartke and gk cabs and are not that much worse than Avatars. My cabs are by far the most "budget" part of my rig but I absolutely LOVE them. Punchy punchy punchy mids and totally reliable. I run my power amp gain at 75% and the RBI at 50-65%. I love the setup. I used to gig a GK Backline 600 Head but I had to crank it to keep up with our guitarists. The new setup works much much much better and on ebay, it didn't cost me much. I never run everything close to full power but I dig the headroom a lot.
 
#124
rbonner said:
With great power comes great responsibility...

HAHAHAHA, Ok what movie line is that from... That was pretty good.
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and endless repair bills for the reckless, like myself.

SVT-CL > 810E = 300w

also using a traynor 215, so amp is running at 2 ohms

but still just barely as loud as i need, even with the bass, mids, master and pre almost all cranked. great overdriven sound though...

soon to either repair my Sunn Coliseum 300 or swap the SVT-CL for the 4PRO, if it'd be give me any more CLEAN volume.
 
#128
Poll sucks, too limited.

90% of the time I'm bringing my Acoustic Image Focus 1 Series II head, which is 400 watts into 8 ohms, 600 watts into 4 ohms. Half the time I'm using two cabs (4 ohms) the other half just one.

5-7% of the remaining time I bring my rack rig, which has a Crown stereo power amp with 275 watts into 8 ohms, 450 into 4 (per channel), and I'm usually running one channel @ 4 ohms and the other @ 8. So, um, that's 725 watts.

And then the last ~3% of the time I bring a PolyTone MiniBrute III combo, which is either 85 watts or 100 watts depending on who you ask.
 
#133
If I take my own amp to a gig - 575 watts, from my Ashdown ABM 500 into Ashdown Mini48 and Mini15 cabs.

Generally when the backline is provided, it'll be some crappy practise amp that they DI to the PA.....so onstage sometimes on 100 watts or so from some beat up small combo that no one cares about.......

But I have used the 575 watts cranked pretty high outdoors.....whether is was every single of the 575 watts or not - I can't be sure!!!:bassist:
 
#137
Most of the gigs I've played over the last hear or so were with my Acoustic 220, which is rated at 125 watts. I have played it through pretty efficient Acoustic and Eden cabinets, though, which gets the most out of that power, but still. Even in fairly big rooms or (smaller) outdoor gigs it gets the job done. And that was with a fairly noisy rock band.
 
#138
Funny how the power requirements have changed over the years. My first "real" amp was a Fender Bassman 135. It was the loudest thing I had ever heard and I always got the same comment, "Dude, turn down". Next was an Eden WT300. Then came the SWR SM-400...wow, 400watts! Then the Trace Elliot, the Ashdown, the Mesa... every time with more power than before. With all these improvements in power, what do you think the comment I got most from my bandmates was? "Dude, you need to turn down".

The last couple years have seen the average amp well into the 500w to 600w range. Recently we are seeing amps hitting the 1000w range and even 1500w in some cases. Now there is even an amp called "The Nuke"! Makes me wonder what is next? Maybe an amp called the "Doomsday" with 50,000watts capable of putting out enough volume to create a black hole in space and end all life on this planet (except the cockroaches, of course). I guess we will just have to wait for NAMM 2010 to find out. :ninja:
 

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