amp wattage

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Thank You Lt.Bob and FordVan for understanding my intentions.

For Greg_L and others who agree with him:

Greg_L said:
i dont think the questions are stupid. i think the act is stupid. im all for questions, and genuinely help when i can. i just dont believe that this guys schtick is legit. its either and act, or this kids parents and teachers need to be jailed.
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There is a cool but little known and most underused feature on this board that you all would benefit greatly from........put the guy on your ignore list.

Or admit that "the act" feeds you and you actually enjoy the feelings of disgust and frustration and the sassy replies.

But continually responding to "the act" with smart come backs only feeds "the act" and makes it more common and more fun for the "actor".

It's Psychology 101, people......I've felt the exact same way about several people's crap replies on this forum, Greg, and they are all on my ignore list now. Works great, less feeling!

Besides, I dont assume that "the actor" is the only one reading my reply. There are other people who read these threads and never reply and they actually learn things from the answers posted.

And I have successfully but reluctantly resisted one more time the overwhelming urge to delete this site from my list of internet shortcuts.....
 
i totally understand the 'dont feed the trolls' angle. really, i do. but i come here to learn and entertain myself as does everyone else. i particularly like the 'guitar' section and dont wish it to be cluttered up with nonsensical posts and polls from retards like marshall.amps. clearly im not alone if you go by his rep meter. i dont know if youve noticed or care, but i dont flame anyone ever - except for this guy. i figure if enough people do it, maybe a mod or someone will remove them and life will carry on.

i didnt know about the 'ignore' feature. surely that will come in handy.

i mean no offense to anyone and i apologize to those of you who dont go by marshall.amps.
 
After all this vitriol, I offer the $64,000 Question:

what's the difference between a half stack and a full stack?

:-D

cheers

Billy S.
 
Life must be extra pleasant in Columbus OH if this thread fits your definition of vitriolic...... You lucky dawg! :D

moogyboy said:
After all this vitriol, I offer the $64,000 Question:

what's the difference between a half stack and a full stack?

:-D

cheers

Billy S.
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I only have my self-proclaimed "micro stack"......I dont honestly know what the terms half-stack and full-stack refer to. I'm sure a 4x12 cab is involved in one way or another..... Maybe a full stack is two cabs?? I'd kinda like to know myself what the difference is..... :confused:
 
A half stack is an amp with 1 head unit and 1 cab. A full stack is an amp with 1 head unit and 2 cabs.

A cabinet is a box with speakers in it that is driven by a head unit.

A head unit is the thing that does the work, has the knobs on it and the guitar plugs into.

A guitar is one of those things with 6 strings that you strum and makes a godawful noise (at least in my case)

A godawful noise is what I make whenever I pick up my guitar after a couple of beers.

A beer is drink that I really shouldn't drink but occasioanally might, that makes you unable to walk straight, and causes you to be attracted to the most horrendous munters.

A horrendous munter is a girl who looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, and apparently us english have more than our fair share. I personally think otherwise. But thats just me.

Me is the term I use to refer to myself, or I.

I am bored of writing this post now....

:D
 
iwantmypie said:
This is very true
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shhhhh. jokes or going along with past jokes in regards to marshall.amps are not allowed in this thread. :p
 
Greg_L said:
anyone who consistently refuses to at least spell simple words correctly doesnt come across as someone thats legit. thats all im saying. ive tried several times to help him out. he blows-off good advice and just keeps on with his act.
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how have i blown off advice
 
Greg_L said:
i dont think the questions are stupid. i think the act is stupid. im all for questions, and genuinely help when i can. i just dont believe that this guys schtick is legit. its either and act, or this kids parents and teachers need to be jailed.
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you think my parents need to be jailed cause they didnt teach me about amps


my main question any way was why a stack thats 50watts when u can get one of those smaller ones (smaller ones lol) with more wattage
 
Rokket said:
There are several of these clowns on this site. walters comes to mind. I think they are probably the same person, who invents these guys just to get a kick out of annoying the good people on this site.
If you find a troll, ignore it and it goes away. No sense beating each other over it. You are just giving the asshole what he wants if you do that. You don't think he's looking at his monitor right now and laughing that he got you good?
I know I would, if I had the time and inclination to do dumb shit like that...
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nope im not jerking your guyses jains im one person and i found this by searching like how to reacord a live band or something and again this site is for the dumbies to ask you experts
 
legionserial said:
A half stack is an amp with 1 head unit and 1 cab. A full stack is an amp with 1 head unit and 2 cabs.

A cabinet is a box with speakers in it that is driven by a head unit.

A head unit is the thing that does the work, has the knobs on it and the guitar plugs into.

A guitar is one of those things with 6 strings that you strum and makes a godawful noise (at least in my case)

A godawful noise is what I make whenever I pick up my guitar after a couple of beers.

A beer is drink that I really shouldn't drink but occasioanally might, that makes you unable to walk straight, and causes you to be attracted to the most horrendous munters.

A horrendous munter is a girl who looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, and apparently us english have more than our fair share. I personally think otherwise. But thats just me.

Me is the term I use to refer to myself, or I.

I am bored of writing this post now....

:D
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nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rofl
 
Thats alot of replys, this thread was awsome i didnt think anyone would say anything. :)
 
Just for the fun of it:
There's no real comparison between the amps you showed. The expensive heads are all tube while the combo is solid state. I'm not going to go into this because you seem to be at such a beginner stage in your amp knowledge but trust me . in general 50 tube watts will smoke 100 solid state watts. Before anyone jumps on this note that I said in general. There are certain exceptions but as a rule it's safe to say that tube amps have a MUCH greater perceived volume than solid state.
Further ...... watts is not the only thing that matters. Lots of watts isn't worth much is the amp sounds crappy. Those two Marshall heads you showed are gonna sound damned good for anything except perhaps for some jazz guy that wants a big round clean jazz sound. That SS Marshall isn't gonna have the tone and nice compressed tube breakup of those heads.
This is ultra simplified man . but amps that fetch a high price do so because good players pay it ......... and good players pay it because they know that they sound a special way that nothing else does.
Wattage is actually the least important consideration when buying an amp really. Many of the most expensive boutique amps like Badcat or Matchless often only put out 30 watts or so. My Mesa Blue Angel can run 18, 33, or 38 watts and I virtually always have it on the 18 watt setting.
 
so basically the stacks have tubes and the others dont and can you play on a head with out speakers -thats a dumb question-

is that you on your avatar??????
 
nevermind trhat question i just asked

and how do the heads hook up to the cabinets
 
Those heads have tubes .... not all heads are tubed. There are SS heads.
They'll have 1/4" jacks on the back of the heads and you'd run a speaker cable to the cab(s).
 
SS=Solid State. Those transistors and silicon IC chips that your Computer is built from. Solid state may look good to an engineer on a schematic diagram, but the tube circuit has a certain sound and clarity that will out class a solid state every time.
Does that help you a bit? :confused:
 
Anfontan said:
Solid state may look good to an engineer on a schematic diagram, but the tube circuit has a certain sound and clarity that will out class a solid state every time.
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Hey! I'm an engineer and I resemble that remark! ;^)

At best, transistor amplifiers can only emulate what tube amps do naturally, and usually not very well. I've got about, I dunno, eight or ten amps, and only two of them are solid state - a 10 watt guitar practice amp and a small bass combo. The bass combo is actually pretty good, and it's nice to have 300 watts in a 60 lb package; my SVT sounds better, but oh my achin' back...

A friend of mine has a 30 watt Vox Valvetronics that's not too bad.
 
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