Is a 60 watt amp loud enough for an outside gig?

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Please reply i need help. I hope this is loud enough without turning it all the way up is it.?
 
It all depends on how big the "outside gig" is.

Are we talking "backyard party" or Yankee Stadium?
 
is it a solid state or a valve or a tube amp?

And don't forget, how loud plays your drummer? :D
 
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It'll be plenty.

Just make sure the engineer who is miking it turns you up plenty in the mix :p
 
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If you are playing anything except a very light, folky kind of a gig, it will definately not be loud enough.

Unless it is miked and run through the PA.

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If you ever need more that 50 watts, it's the sound mans problem.
 
64Firebird said:
If you ever need more that 50 watts, it's the sound mans problem.
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YEah, and if you ever need more than 15", it's the bitches' problem... ;)
 
ok cool..just checkin i think i'm gonna mic. it to be sure and for hopefully better sound. I don't know though if the place were playin at has the sound allready up i assuming they do i find out next week
 
always mic if you can... always have a pa if you can...

and 50 watts is definately enough...

Guhlenn
 
I once did a festival, and used my Fender 15 watt frontman... it worked ok.....But keep in mind it was sort of a small field... not a huge open area..

Though, My sound ended up being a squealy midrange thing..

Alot has to do with the soundguy and the equipment too... For instance.... With mine.. I was using a sequenced keyboard and drum machine, so I could turn those things down a bit, so they wouldn't overpower the amp... Of course I lost a little bit of overall volume, but my elderly audience didn't mind that.

Now, if you have a soundguy thats gonna use 50,000 watts and 30 foot stacks, Im not sure if your amp will compete.

See where I'm going?

Like the others said... If it's an option... Mike it and run it through the PA.

Joe
 
Someone once posted a link to an article that sought to dispell all the myths about guitar amps. One of the most persistant of those concerns watts vs. volume. In a nutshell, more watts doesn't mean more volume. Period. And anyway, if you have extra board channela available, you could just mic up a good-sounding 5 or 10-watt amp and run it through your mixing board, have your sound man balance out the relative levels, and you'd be able to blend well with just about anything else (drums, bass, vocals, other guitars) that was playing. Try the Tech 21 Trademark 10: it's a killer 10-watt amp (essentailly a Sansamp GT-2 mounted in an amp case w/spring reverb thrown in). In fact, I think you could even run the Trademark 10 direct. (No, I don't work for that company :D)

Bottom line: The amp you have will likely be more than adequate for what you need.

Bruce in Korea
 
overseas said:
Someone once posted a link to an article that sought to dispell all the myths about guitar amps. One of the most persistant of those concerns watts vs. volume. In a nutshell, more watts doesn't mean more volume. Period.
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Then try on my 100 watt marshall with that 5 watt thingy... more watts IS more volume... the relation isn't linear however... THAT's what the article explained... read better...

Guhlenn
 
Then try out one of them small mesa boogie 50 watt combo's against that 100watt marshall. More watts isn't essentially more volume...
 
Okay, my bad :D

I guess what I was trying to say was it's not necessary to have a guitar amp that boasted tremendous wattage in order to get a lot of volume going out to the audience at a live concert. Mic'ing up a decent-sounding smaller amp would do the same thing. Yes, the relationship is not linear, but that article did say that in you'd have to make a HUGE increase in wattage in order to have any significant affect on volume. Some people spend big $$ on these huge amps when a combo amp or even smaller, would actually be sufficient for their needs... which was the primary point that article was trying to get across.

By the way, do you have a link to that article? I haven't read it in a while, so perhaps I should check it out again.
 
When you play with a PA, there's no need for big volume. You just need a good stage sound. The volume part should be taken care of by the soundguy.

But there's limits. If you're drummer plays too loud, the sound will suck. If your guitaramps are too loud for the gig, the sound will suck. The PA dude can amplify stuff, but cannot turn anything down that comes from stage... Not that this is on topic though. :rolleyes:

One of the bands I mix for has these nice (extremely loud) vintage tubeamps. I only have to get the drum and vocals up there with them and their sound is fantastic.
 
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