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Tonight I'm gigging one of these
It's a small pub, the little Fender will be plenty even without micing it
Also, most of my 1x12's have been widebody Mesa's, Rivera's and the larger cabbed Bogners so perhaps thats why I haven't noticed the difference.
My thoughts on a 2x12 combo now is why bother - with the size of them being the same as 212 cabinet or the footprint being the same as a 412 its probably easier in some ways to go head and cab!! - and thats where I am now - easier to carry in the lump in 2 pieces!!! - so I have a 212 for the larger venues and larger stages and a 112 for the smaller ones (both with the Shiva head)
My 18watt head has an ef86 pre amp tube and they are very microphone and prone to ring. The head sounds best actually not touching the cab at all.
But now I'm gigging less and have less than a decade to retirement I find small is beautiful, but not at the price of tone. Since I don't need screaming stack tone I get by on much less gear but still require the essence of a good tone.
So my 3 options go like this.
Rehearsal - Marshall AVT20 combo, I even did a gig with it in a tiny pub once.
Typical gig, either The Fender HRD combo because it's simple and in a wheeled flight case or the Marshall 50w head into a 1x10" 60w celestion ticking over (best tone for me).
All these are pedal platforms but the basic tone improves as you go up scale.
I've gigged the last few years with a 1x10 or 1x12. Nothing against a 2x12, it's probably just more a power thing, I don't really play gigs that need a 2x12 and 50 - 100 watts.
I prefer 2x10 to 2x12 most of the time as well, although I have always wanted to try the G12H / Blue combo in a 2x12.
If I was playing bigger gigs, I'd probably go for a 2x12, but a head and cab just to open up the possibilities of mixing and matching.
Then you get to the end of the night and you have to move the feckin thing - and it puts a dampener on things. Then you drive home and you have to get the wretched thing into the house without waking up the neighbourhood...
Nope, the days of me schlepping a big amp out are over. I think my HRD is about as big as I'm likely to go. And no, I don't play metal - although I found it to be superb in the twin guitar punk band with a RAT in front of it but I'm no longer doing that.
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I used to own a Peavey Duel 212 and that thing was bloody heavy. Sounded great mind you (much better than the Boogie Nomad that replaced it, grrrr) but was a right pain to cart about. I sold it, along with the flight case, to a young dude in Bristol - he lived in the top flat of at least a three storey building with a spiral staircase at the top no less (and no lift).
When I delivered it to him I couldn't help thinking it would be back up for sale very soon, sure enough it was on Gumtree a couple of weeks later!
One of the most portable rigs I had was a Peavey C50 head and a matching 410 cab.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
I sincerely hope you're going to use pedals with that for dirt, the drive on those things is a horrible pile of fizz.
Exactly - or a singerist as well! They (well ours anyway) own the PA and has all that to lug. We often give him an hand packing up after a gig. apart from when he sits on his bum chilling and gabbing to folks for ages after a gig while we are all packing away. Then I happily take my money n go, leaving him to pack his gear away on his todd...but that's another matter.
It's a rockabilly gig so drive fineness isn't an issue, just needs to sound like it's on the point of blowing up