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Its fer retrieving dead ducks.
Sorry, I thought he was asking "What is a Lab for?
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Get a head that works for you, and a speaker that works for you. If one is a lightweight, and the other is heavy, so be it.
Sometimes folks don't upgrade everything all at once, so they end up with a new head and old speaker, or vice versa. It's all good.
Sometimes folks don't upgrade everything all at once, so they end up with a new head and old speaker, or vice versa. It's all good.
I use a small and lightweight Peavey Minimax head with a not so small and lightweight Ampeg 810 cab. The reason for this is first and foremost that the 810 is the best sounding cab there is, at least to my ears. Secondly, most venues I play has one as part of their backline, so I often put it on our tech rider and it works out just fine. My own cab almost never leaves our rehearsal room.
If someone wants their overdrive to come from an amp, "just get a pedal" is not a real solution.Boost pedal might do it - if not any of the dozens of OD pedals
Because I don't like how that sounds and monitors leave much to be desired.
Some do, though. And I doubt he considered those that don't overdrive when choosing an amp.
Where's the massive head?
My problem is there is also an invention called a basement. Hand trucks don't do stairs especially well.
Tiny Head, Same Big Speaker Cabs: What's the Point?
“The point is taken......the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? It's over there in a box.”
“The point is taken......the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? It's over there in a box.”
Sure they do. You need big enough tyred wheels so that it rolls the treads without heaving it on the way up and only a small jolt well absorbed each tread going down.
Thats why they invented band mates....lol.
Back in the day, not only did we have ridiculously large and cumbersome bass rigs, keyboard players used Hammond B-3s, Fender Rhodes pianos (not exactly light weight), heck, we had one pianist that used an upright piano. And yes, we had basements, one night stands, and still managed to survive.
The other interesting thing about this is, there is a musical fraternity that started back in my high school in 1966, and over the decades , our number has expanded in excess of at least 70 musicians. We lost one to cancer, and one other has some cardiac issues diet related, but still is able to perform. The rest of us? None of us have back or orthopedic issues, most are still gigging, and most of us in our 60s and seventies are still in great shape. We’re all deaf as a post, but for the most part, none the worse for wear.
As a group based our numbers and years of life, we are morbidity outliers with one thing in common.
Like they say, a little physical work won’t kill you, but a lack of it, or avoiding it as much as possible, just might.
Just think how many posters on TB are claiming bad backs out of the 400 some members? And how many are ardently chasing the holy grail of the lightest gear humanly possible? Is there a correlation?
Bad back here from a P.A. collapse in 2012 (had a full hang of EAW 760 boxes come down on me in a wind storm) as well as 30+ years of touring. Complete correlation. I spent way too much money chasing that light weight rig since then... as I posted earlier, a mini head is ideal to shave off the weight now that they have designs that work, but enough speaker coverage to push real low end/ handle what I throw at it personally is still going to need internal volume. Casters have become a key element for me, it's actually better than dead lifting 35 lb. boxes that don't do it anyway without an array of them. Tilt, roll, tip.
