So what actually is the heaviest combo?

ThorpyFX · January 2015

I thought my mesa Mark v was heavy at 65lbs!!

thisisguitar · January 2015

@ICBM - It's enough when I have a set of outdoor metal stairs to carry it up and down!

AF Custom Cabs are doing the head and cab for me. The original case has be drilling into in four places on the top, and a hole made for an extension socket on the side. It's pretty battered, but knowing I was going this route means I didn't really care. It's the sound :-)

thisisguitar · January 2015

Should look a little like this (although my head case will be a little taller

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa183/lyndos/10153744_785261158211593_8855646957866379082_n.jpg

ICBM · January 2015

Ah right, I remember the pics of it now. Not worth worrying about it if it's knackered! They're not rare, but they are rare in nice condition so I wouldn't cut up a good one.

For me the biggest problem with carrying them is that because they have no side handles you can only pick them up with two hands if you carry them bodily across your chest, and at that point you can't see where you're going up or down stairs so I take your point

.

thisisguitar · January 2015

Yeah, it's going to lose no value at all :-)

Carrying any amp over about 25kg with a just strap handle is a bit silly in my mind. As for the stairs, a drop of rain and it could all get a bit dangerous!

IvisonGuitars · January 2015

The Matchless DC30 & Bad Cat Black Cat 2x12 (essentially the same amp) are up there with the monstrously heavy. I've just converted mine to a head and 2x12 cab which makes it a lot easier!

Moe_Zambeek · January 2015

Dc30 is 83lbs I think ...and a single handle.

randomhandclaps · January 2015

@thisisguitar - Can't wait to see the finished item. The one like it you posted looks awesome.

impmann · January 2015

Fender Super Twin was "fuck heavy" if memory serves.

Proper Ac30s get into the realms of WTF when moving them post gig.

Orange OR120 combos (1970s one) were astonishingly heavy too - a band mate had one with JBLs retrofitted (Jolly Big Loudspeakers?) and that thing was plain and simply stupid. Plus it sounded fucking terrible...

HH stuff was fairly hefty too - if memory serves there was a thumping great bass combo with 2x15s that was a two man lift... Ugly mother too.

Danny1969 · January 2015

Gigging tonight we are using a Fender Twin hard cased, A Marshall EL34 \ 100 100 racked and an Ampeg SVT hardcased and it's 8 x 10 cab hardcased

Wheels and ramps help a lot but there's always some dreaded stairs

Richardj · January 2015

I think my Cornford Roadhouse 30 combo is very physically large and heavy - 29kg - for a relatively low powered 1x12 amp. Both the chassis and cabinet are heavy in their own right, combined it is an awkward SOB to move around. Sounds nice though

richardhomer · January 2015

My old MkIII Boogie had an EV speaker with a magnet the size of a dinner plate. It may not be the heaviest combo ever made, but given its diminutive proportions, it certainly felt like it.

A flight case with wheels was the answer on the flat - it had handles at each end, so assistance could be sought where needed.

ICBM · January 2015

richardhomer said:

My old MkIII Boogie had an EV speaker with a magnet the size of a dinner plate. It may not be the heaviest combo ever made, but given its diminutive proportions, it certainly felt like it.

Yes, I'm pretty sure the MkIII and MkIV 'standard size' combos with the EV win the density contest, even if not the outright weight.

I went into a shop to try one when I'd never played one before, and it was on a fancy display stand (you know how they did these things in the 80s, very 'Hollywood'

) - the shop chap suggested I went and brought it over to somewhere I could try it while he fetched a guitar, and for a few seconds I thought he was having a joke and it was actually bolted to the stand

.

welshboyo · January 2015

I used to lug a MKIII EV loaded hardwood combo in its flightcase week in, week out to gigs......thinking back I must have been mental...up/down stairs the works.....

I remember it once falling out of the bottom of its flightcase as one of the catches finally had enough...it fell off the front of a high stage and bounced....and made a rather large dink in the wooden floor....needless to say, we never played that venue again...

meltedbuzzbox · January 2015

I remember having to a gig at a pub.

Having walked in on the ground floor we asked where we had to setup.

"4th floor mate"

And they had no lift. Me and my twin and the bass player with his Trace elliot 4 x 10 thing didn't enjoy that one.

Cacofonix · January 2015

The Nomad 45 4x10 is a weighty beast. The cab weighs approx 49lb on its own. I had the exact spec but lost it now. Peavey vt deuce was also hugely heavy. I used to use it to press the suspension down in my landy, as it was heavy enough to mimic the paving slabs my mate used in his.

thisisguitar · January 2015

@RandomHandClaps - It'll be by the same guy, though I will be going with colours more akin to the original I think :-)

ToneControl · January 2015

heaviest 30w must be the DC30 at 83 lbs

compare that with a Victoria Tweed twin at 50 lbs

vasselmeyer · January 2015

ToneControl;491269" said:
heaviest 30w must be the DC30 at 83 lbs

compare that with a Victoria Tweed twin at 50 lbs

I have an Egnater Rebel 30 2x12 at 88lbs which is 40Kg

ICBM · January 2015

ToneControl said:

heaviest 30w must be the DC30 at 83 lbs

If you discount my Trem-o-verb which is currently running with four 6V6s and one 5V4 and produces about 30W, yes

.

The Matchless doesn't even have end handles either, which is silly at that weight.

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