The Mile-High Watts Club

[Bassflute]

Think SVT's are for wussies? SWR 900's are kids toys? Eden WT 800's suck? This is a club for all of us with 900 or more watts, where the manly bass players live.

I'm member +1, with my 1,000 Berg IP stack, and that's just entry level.

Post your rigs with high watts and we'll assign numbers...what the heck...



Headroom rules!

Cheers,
Cameron

 

[parsons]

And where exactly would you play and possibly need a rig like this?

 

[Korladis]

Screw headroom.

 

[PBFACTOR]

still have a version of this rig, 3100watts.

and this was the peavey amp that didn't exist. 2000watts.

 

[David Jayne]

This'll pin your ears back:

 

[v-grooves]

This rig goes everywhere with me, small, medium and large venues. Sometimes I get a smartass look when they see the power amp set on 1, I just smile.
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In the hot-rod world, they have a saying, "There's no replacement for displacement". I think the principle applies here with our bass rigs too.....I just cant think of a word that would replace the word displacement for "watts".

Vince

 

[kesslari]

"There's no snots for watts"????

 

[KramerBassFan]

How do you even get 3100w from a 110v 10a wall socket?

Maybe thats PEAK?

Or is it "RMS"?

Should there be a distinction made?

Just curious...

Or maybe you aren't even in America...

Or your using an industrial outlet... somebody edjermukate me.

 

[Passinwind]

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This is only the EFX oriented part of the rig--there's a different rig for the clean part and enough separate EFX, vocal processing, and guitar synth pieces I use in Passing Wind to use up most of that mixer's inputs. Stereo biamp, 550 watts/side lows, 330 watts/side highs, DSP controlled, big fun.

Or alternately I can run mono biamped with 1800 watts for the woofers and 1100 for the top boxes.

 

[Bassflute]

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This is only the EFX oriented part of the rig--there's a different rig for the clean part and enough separate EFX, vocal processing, and guitar synth pieces I use in Passing Wind to use up most of that mixer's inputs. Stereo biamp, 550 watts/side lows, 330 watts/side highs, DSP controlled, big fun.

Or alternately I can run mono biamped with 1800 watts for the woofers and 1100 for the top boxes.

I'll bet that Lexicon sounds GREAT through that....nothing like stereo...

Cheers,
Cameron

 

[duderasta]

I can get 2000 watts bridged.

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[Bigmouth]

So, I have 75 watts but i can get my amp and jazz in the back of my mini cooper.

 

[Gizmot]

Don't tell me how many watts you have - tell me how efficient your speakers are. Speaker sensitivity will make a much bigger difference in how loud you can get than sheer amp power. Some rigs need thousands of watts of amp power - depending on the speakers

 

[JimmyM]

if you total up every amp i've ever owned, that comes in at 2150w.

 

[fourstringburn]

I have shown my rig off plenty of times in this forum, but what the heck, This time I will be part of the elite club...imagine that!

Here is my 3000 watt rig powered by a class D amp driven by Ampeg preamps and blasted out thru 2 SVT Ampeg 810 cabs. No lie, At extreme volumes I get a sense of vertigo if I stand to close from all the loud low end that this rig generates.

I say it is better to have too much power than not enough! if not, go play a guitar where you can get away with a 60 watt combo amp...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=184368&stc=1&d=1287116839

 

[Hutzbordello]

this is disgusting

 

[lowfreqgeek]

I have shown my rig off plenty of times in this forum, but what the heck, This time I will be part of the elite club...imagine that!

Here is my 3000 watt rig powered by a class D amp driven by Ampeg preamps and blasted out thru 2 SVT Ampeg 810 cabs. No lie, At extreme volumes I get a sense of vertigo if I stand to close from all the loud low end that this rig generates.

I say it is better to have too much power than not enough! if not, go play a guitar where you can get away with a 60 watt combo amp...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=184368&stc=1&d=1287116839

Where the heck do you use this thing in NM?

Seriously... I wanna know!

 

[fourstringburn]

Where ever I can these days...We do have some clubs and many casino venues to play at.

 

[lowfreqgeek]

Where ever I can these days...We do have some clubs and many casino venues to play at.

yeah... But I just can't see that much horsepower (3kW = 4hp) anywhere around the ABQ/SF area - even in the casinos. Admittedly, I try not to play the casinos too much - they take most of the fun out of it for me every time I do it.

Not knocking it, I just can't fathom that rig fitting on too many of the stages I've seen around here.

If you can use it, more power to you!

 

[JimiLL]

Hartke cab is now replaced with GB 610