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Topic: Is There a Steel Amp That Breathes |
Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 4:13 am |
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You know what I mean, sounds like "all outdoors", fills the room from all four courners at once.
Most steel amps seem compressed to me, like a roaring lion trying to escape a box with a small 15" hole to crawl through.
Larry Behm |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 4:24 am
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An original 70's Peavey JBL Session 400 fits that description nicely. 
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Jay Ganz
From:
Out Behind The Barn
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 5:50 am
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Well, you could always try an amp with a pine cabinet
instead of particle board or plywood. Pine tends to
radiate more all around sound. Plywood has a more
focused sound to it. All that glue used in particle
board cabinets doesn't help matters either. 
That's part of the reason those old Fenders get that tone. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 6:37 am
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| For a fuller sound, I would recommend a pair of amps or speakers. |
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Kevin Ruddell
From:
Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 1:21 pm
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| I second Jays' suggestion |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 1:46 pm
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Peavey has been using finger jointed pine for years, like the old Blackface amps. Check any Session 400 up to a Nashville 400 and that's what you got. Same particle board baffles like Fender has always used.
Try two Super Reverbs and you can fill it up really well, Larry! Now that's a wall of sound!! |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 2:59 pm
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How about a couple of these babies..
Maybe one on a far corner of the club.
EJL |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 3:29 pm
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Not a problem...just get an amp with multiple speakers (maybe even different sizes...like a 15" and two 10" speakers) that has a decent-sized cabinet. Keep in mind that solid-state amps (due to their raunchy sounds when overdriven) often have compressor circuits, so tube amps or old solid-state jobs (before the compressor circuits) work best.
The humbucking pickups we tend to use don't help the matter either. Single coild have a lot more "airy" sound.
Trends have been towards making things smaller and more compact, but that never gets you anything in the sound department. Everything is a compromise, and when you shrink the speaker cabinet and depend on one speaker, the "big and spacious" sound just disappears.
Two amps that Fender made that might fill the bill for you would be the 100-watt versions of the Quad-Reverb, or the Super-Six Reverb. My old system (a 180-watt Super-Twin Reverb, pushing two twelves and two fifteens) would be even better! |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 3:48 pm
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| Now I like that idea, Donny!! |
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