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Lightweight touring rig - Help

#43
For a head, I highly recommend one of these. Great tone and 900 watts.
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For a cab, I love my Epifani UL410. Weighs 56 pounds, handles 1000 watts and moves a ton of air.
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#44
If you like the Tonehammer then the 500 should be plenty.
I personally wouldn't spend too much on cabs that you're taking out on tour because of road wear.
If you want new then check out GK's CX line, bang for buck and handle the jandal.
Or SWR Goliath secondhand.
 
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Mualk said:
Hi everyone and thanks in advance. I know there will be lots of opinions on this...
I am looking for the lightest weight head and cab that I can find, but still be pro and sound good. It will be used for 150-600 seat venues, backed with PA, but needs to have plenty of juice. I plated through an Aguilar Tone Hammer and really liked the sound - are those still good amps or is there something new ad better?
Opinions on the markbass heads? Do you like them and what is your preference?
Finally - looking for a lightweight 4x10 cab - but open to suggestions here as well. Genre is rock and roll.
Thanks everyone!!!
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Do you really need plenty of juice if you'll always have PA support?
Your amplifier/cab will essentially just be an onstage monitor. I'd probably just get a 210 and a light head, almost anything will work (I can't advice on sound because we may have different ideas of good, but I can get good sounds from my Mesa D800+ or a Behringer head).
 
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Mualk said:
Hi everyone and thanks in advance. I know there will be lots of opinions on this...
I am looking for the lightest weight head and cab that I can find, but still be pro and sound good. It will be used for 150-600 seat venues, backed with PA, but needs to have plenty of juice. I plated through an Aguilar Tone Hammer and really liked the sound - are those still good amps or is there something new ad better?
Opinions on the markbass heads? Do you like them and what is your preference?
Finally - looking for a lightweight 4x10 cab - but open to suggestions here as well. Genre is rock and roll.
Thanks everyone!!!
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I prefer 2 2x10s to 1 4x10 cab
 
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#53
my Tonehammer 500 head through my 49lb Bergantino CN410 cab can cover just about any non PA support gig out there. Small, lightweight, sounds great. A good, light 4x10 cab is all you will ever need in my opinion. If not the Aguilar head, I also really like the Mesa Subway heads (D800, D800+, WD800)
 
#55
As for lightweight heads I would lean toward the GK MB line or the new Legacy line, the Darkglass heads (yes they do clean to clean-ish tones very well and have cab sim on DI), as well as Aguilar ToneHammer and AG (I'm partial to the AG).
For cabs that would allow modularity & portability, lots of the GK guys have been singing the praises of stacking a pair of CX210s. I can verify that a single CX210 performs very well in its own right.
 
#56
I've been using a TH700 for a while, and the TH350 prior to that. With a 115 it's plenty loud, and I like that 115s can be lighter than a 210. I'm a big fan of the tone hammer preamp, and use the pedal when not using the head.

More often though, I use a traynor sb 112 combo that weighs very little, and is plenty loud enough to keep up with a drummer. Not very "rock and roll", but it makes a nice platform for my pedalboard and It's great for stage volume if that's all you need. I use it with a HPF now, though, so others may have different experiences with it.

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Mualk said:
It will be used for 150-600 seat venues, backed with PA, but needs to have plenty of juice.
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I play primarily 400 to 2000 seat places, and never use an amp for those. The guitarists either use amp sims or iso boxes off stage - nothing on stage makes noise except the drums, which are shielded. The only amp I have is for smaller venues - when you get to the place where the PA is a couple little speakers on poles, then the vocals go through the PA and everyone else plays through amps. You really shouldn't ever need to do anything more than keep up with the drums, so your amp size depends on how quiet you can get the drummer to play in smaller venues.
 

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