How many watts needed?

[weaver7]

I think the speaker and speaker cabinet design is really important with bass amps to get the most from the power. I have this Fender 25B that is used in church and in a fairly large one at that. It seems to be loud enough. Now I am not playing with a miked drummer or anything like that, but it does the job and I think that it has something to do with the speaker and cabinet design.

yea, me too

 

[darrin_h2000]

Yeah, that would sort of make sense I guess. The thing is, I see a bunch of 100 watt bass amps, and some of them I read that they don't get loud enough for small gigs. Which I just have a hard time believing. Especially since my little 15 watt amp is plenty loud for gigging with.

Heres how it works...watts to dB is logrythmic...so to get something twice as loud as 15 watts you need to get a 150 watt amp...you need ten times the power to produce twice the dB.

 

[Lt. Bob]

You will always need 50 more than you have