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250 watt trace elliot combo (7 band)

boss distortion pedal, not one of the little ones, cost me 150. It's got stacks of sounds built into it.

A fender half stack and a 450 watt carlsbro bass combo until recently i pawned them off too.

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how many watts do you guys recommend...for like a small gig...bout like 500 people...kinda big audotorium foe example...

I like the sound of tube amps but it seems like the loudest is like 30 watts...

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The volume to watt ratio changes depending on if you're using a tube or circuit amp. If you're using a tube amp then 30watts is more than loud enough for 500 people. You could even go with 15. My Vox AC-30 will self destruct and bring the club with it if I crank it.

If you go with a circuit then you would need around 100 - 150 watts.

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GuitarBizarre

1 - you mean tube or solid state. both are 'circuits'
2 - Its nothing to do with that really. 30 output watts is 30 output watts.
3 - Loudness is dependent on wattage and speaker sensitivity. a 90db speaker is twice as loud as an 87db speaker.
4 - Tube amps tend to sound louder because they have certain characteristics and many are designed to be pushed over maximum to gain power tube distortion. hence on a lot of amps, 30 watts is the maximum it can handle completely clean. it might go as much as another 5 watts once power tube distortion hits.


For these reasons tube amps seem louder than solid state at similar settings. seem being to key word here.

In a more practical sense however, my solid state Line 6 X3 sounds ****ing amazing, and I could easily run the line out from that through a 1000 watt behringer poweramp module into a homebuilt cab. And it would have still only cost me as much as a medicore halfstack while sounding a hell of a lot better and more versatile to boot.

Halfa

i have a crappy marshall mini
but i'm trying to get something bigger and better under a budget

what do you think of either of these?:

Buy Blackheart BH5H and BH112 Half Stack online at Musician's Friend

Buy Epiphone Valve Junior Half Stack online at Musician's Friend

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Alfred

I don't have an amp that I call MINE at the moment. I use my dad's Traynor 15 watt amp.

Farfisa

I know a guitarist thats in a ****ty hardcore band and he uses like 20 very small amps.......

Halfa

why in the name of all that is good and holy and all thats evil and in hell would ANYONE play through 20 small amps????

quality over quantity
and if i misspelled anything please forgive me...i had issues with quantity

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