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On a stage of that size (5000 or so crowd) the ac30s at full was hardly audible more than 3m off axis. Made me think about double stack marshalls and 100 watt heads. Must be a joyful thing.
Redplate same thing but even less audible due to 112 speaker, deluxe I couldn't even hear in front of it..
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It's "sweet spot" was around 35 to 40mph.
It was an old Lada if anyone's interested.
It did have a sort of agricultural charm though.
I did once meet a chap at a car show who genuinely owned a Ferrari and was interested in buying a 2CV though - because he would be able to drive it flat-out without breaking the law. A rock guitarist, no doubt .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The pedals now available are as subtle or as brutal as you like, and can cover the bulk of attractive tones, so a clear amp that can handle transients is a wonderful thing
For years my go-to amp for this was a Fender Twin Reverb II (The Paul Rivera one)
However, after getting an ultra-clean Dumble clone Ceriatone HRM 100, expertly assembled by Martin of this parish, accompanied by a wonderful EVM12, the Twin II was sold.
The transients on this amp are wonderful, no room for sloppy playing, there's no sag.
I'm guessing it's close the the SRV SSS feel
The difference there is that the 2CV is iconic whereas my Lada was diabolic.
At rehearsals it didn't seem louder than my Sound City to be honest. I never got invited back to rehearsals after the Xmas break. LOL
In any case, the HT5 is perfect. Small, light & portable, cheap, versatile and I'd be more than happy having two and mic'ing it up. Probably should have left the HT20... but the master volume makes it much more suitable for home playing.
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To date, there's no evidence that he did use a load with his amp (much later yes) just a stock 68 sl. The 'constant valve changing' is a bit of hearsay imo, (Rudy L does mention it but in a live application) usually brought about when the use of a variac is mentioned along with fried PT's etc., which as you say was wrongly informed by Ed in a late 70's interview but was soon discovered he meant the other way round. The variac came about when Ed was first starting in his club gigs, he bought a marshall that was UK powered and plugged it straight in to the wall and liked the sound. Prior to this Ed had stated in an early interview that he liked the sound he got when he switched off his very first fender amp and struck a chord as the signal died, something he then said he went on to experiment with light dimmers.
A 400W Blackstar? Wish I was still there to see that! Mind you I struggled to get a 200W Series One on the bench, can't see me lifting a 400watter!"
Anyhoos, assuming it is not a wind up, I would have thought 8X KT88 would have been a more practical valve line up? TBH at those sort of power levels I would have thought a "studio grade" solid state amp was much more practical? As ICBM said, you don't WANT the dirt.
Dave.
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Could not buy a set of 16 decent EL34s for that leave alone 8 88s!
Dave.
surely not?
It's not a wind up. He told me it was a custom build. Apparently they'd built one for some famous-in-the-80s rock band. He did say which one but I can't remember who it was (for me the 80s was the nadir of popular music and I went to great lengths to avoid most of it. But I digress ) Luckily for him, he doesn't have to lift the thing as he has other people to do that. I still don't understand why wanted the thing though. The venues he plays will all have really good PA systems and I assume a competent sound engineer.
No. You need about 180V on a 240V amp before it will actually work, usually.
Whatever he used and however he did it, it certainly wasn't a stock 100W Marshall and the way he played, as often claimed. If it was, people wouldn't be still failing to reproduce that sound more than thirty years later.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
no idea if this is accurate