Running Three SVT's w/Three 8x10 cabs together

[P_Robyn]

Or with all due respect to Alex and Barefaced, sometimes you realize that what you had was working for you better than the new stuff

Personally, I would love to hear a side-by-side. I used to LOVE my blueline SVT and two 8x10 flatback cabs back in the day. But that was then. Seems like TC is currently using Barefaced most of the time (e.g., Jimmy Kimmel show last month). I must confess that I'm not that great a fan of Prophets of Rage, but I do appreciate their music and enjoy listening to them once in a while (even though I don't currently play anything like what they are playing).

 

[alexclaber]

Or with all due respect to Alex and Barefaced, sometimes you realize that what you had was working for you better than the new stuff

Or sometimes, to your great disappointment, all your Barefaced rigs are elsewhere due to tour/studio scheduling...

 

[JimmyM]

Or sometimes, to your great disappointment, all your Barefaced rigs are elsewhere due to tour/studio scheduling...

Well there's that, too

 

[Arthur U. Poon]

Back in the late 70's a bass player in a band in my area called Buck used to use two SVT heads and four SVT cabinets.

Getting to run this exact setup on a big outdoor festival stage has been a dream of mine since I was in my teens!

It was eons ago, but BP Magazine showed a diagram of Michael Anthony's VH stage setup. It consisted of an SVP-Pro tube preamp, 2 SVT 300 all tube amps, and 4 Ampeg 810 cabinets. Then, it showed the SVT 300's rackmounted, with a few spares, and two spare SVP-Pro preamps. drool.


On his side of the stage, there was a wall of 810's behind him, with gutted SVT-CL heads, with lights as stage props, stacked on top of the 810 cabinets. He admitted they were only for show, but damn, did that setup look cool!

 

[mexicanyella]

Getting to run this exact setup on a big outdoor festival stage has been a dream of mine since I was in my teens!

It was eons ago, but BP Magazine showed a diagram of Michael Anthony's VH stage setup. It consisted of an SVP-Pro tube preamp, 2 SVT 300 all tube amps, and 4 Ampeg 810 cabinets. Then, it showed the SVT 300's rackmounted, with a few spares, and two spare SVP-Pro preamps. drool.

On his side of the stage, there was a wall of 810's behind him, with gutted SVT-CL heads, with lights as stage props, stacked on top of the 810 cabinets. He admitted they were only for show, but damn, did that setup look cool!

Ha! Fake amp alert! That reminds me of something I saw once:

In the mid-late 90s the band I was in got an opening-band gig at a newish fancy rock club/restaurant and it turned out the band we were opening for was some late-stage incarnation of Molly Hatchet. When we arrived the stage was already set up for them, but they were nowhere to be seen. I was checking out how my side of the stage had a wall of Randall 4x12 cabs and heads. It's been awhile, but I seem to remember six cabs and three heads. I walked around behind the amps to see if they were all plugged in, and all the heads were gutted. I think only one of the cabs was functional too...maybe two of them. I came back out onto the stage to set up my little rack and 2 x 10 guitar cab, and noticed that on the side of the stage was a rack containing rackmount Randall RG-series amps.

Dude. If you like Randall RG amps, why gut the heads and then play through rackmount versions of the same thing? If you're going to carry all that stuff for the look, carry the actual amps, stack 'em all up and just use one or two...the others can be props and spares. I wondered if at some point the guy was endorsing Randall and received a bunch of already-gutted ones, or what.

It did look pretty cool from the front, I have to admit.

I wonder if Michael Anthony uses gutted Peavey VB heads and cabs with Chickenfoot, with a rackmount Peavey VB chassis off to the side somewhere...

 

[StatesideRambler]

If you like Randall RG amps, why gut the heads and then play through rackmount versions of the same thing?

As you saw, the stacks are eye candy. Racking the amps they're actually using makes life worlds easier when they're a touring band. It's a different way of life when you play in different places night after night for weeks on end and you have a huge setup, a crew of roadies and backstage techs. They do this to prevent and address problems we peons are oblivious to.

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P.S. And when they're good at it we all remain oblivious to them.

 

[bobyoung53]

Ha! Fake amp alert! That reminds me of something I saw once:

In the mid-late 90s the band I was in got an opening-band gig at a newish fancy rock club/restaurant and it turned out the band we were opening for was some late-stage incarnation of Molly Hatchet. When we arrived the stage was already set up for them, but they were nowhere to be seen. I was checking out how my side of the stage had a wall of Randall 4x12 cabs and heads. It's been awhile, but I seem to remember six cabs and three heads. I walked around behind the amps to see if they were all plugged in, and all the heads were gutted. I think only one of the cabs was functional too...maybe two of them. I came back out onto the stage to set up my little rack and 2 x 10 guitar cab, and noticed that on the side of the stage was a rack containing rackmount Randall RG-series amps.

Dude. If you like Randall RG amps, why gut the heads and then play through rackmount versions of the same thing? If you're going to carry all that stuff for the look, carry the actual amps, stack 'em all up and just use one or two...the others can be props and spares. I wondered if at some point the guy was endorsing Randall and received a bunch of already-gutted ones, or what.

It did look pretty cool from the front, I have to admit.

I wonder if Michael Anthony uses gutted Peavey VB heads and cabs with Chickenfoot, with a rackmount Peavey VB chassis off to the side somewhere...

I opened for Molly Hatchet a few times during the early 80's, i think their original lead singer had just left them, I did my biggest gig opening for them at Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg Ma, an approx 5000 seat arena. I don't remember what they had for equipment at either of the gigs but Randal sounds correct, all I remember was LOTS of lead guitar, seeing as how they had three guitarists, was not a band I would have wanted to play bass in. They liked the band and wanted us to tour with them throughout new England but the pay was so bad we said no, I think it was about 200 bucks a night. I did use my double SVT set up with Fender Precision bass as I always did back then and it was enough in the civic center.