my "DREAM" guitar rig.......

[GONZO-X]

my current dream rig, for recording and live playing.

my current feeling is, to get the best of both worlds, i would get a low watt tube amp, that has a pair of channels, and a good small speaker cabinet, and then mic that up for recording. (i think this is the deal....)

then, played into this....

retrofitted with some low watt weber speaker. or, if i have to record in a quiet invironment, i'd do this:

then, for live, i send my line signal from my thd tube amp to a bigger system......like a big tube power amp (like a mesa 2:90),

and a pair of bigger speaker cabinets, like these 2X12's by bogner

and simply crank up the volume.... and if you're really savvy, you'll have a stereo DSP unit, and run in stereo.

i guess, something about getting the amp in it's sweet spot (easier to do with low wattage amps) and the combination of a paper speaker moving at it's most optimum range (at design conditions) gives the smoothest and purest tone.

that'd be the rig i would put together, if i were starting from scratch.

 

[JR#97]

Looks great.

One of the biggest eye openers I ever saw was being back stage at the old Salt Palace back in the 80's watching some hair band. Poison, Tesla, Ratt... I can't remember which, but down below, they had mic'd a single Marshall 1/2 stack for the PA. Everything out front on stage was there for show. All of the cab's were empty. The head's were real and were for back-up.

 

[GONZO-X]

ha! well, that's a smart way to do it....

that way the roadies can fix the real sound stuff without running around on the stage, easier to mic up and deal with the room acoustics....
less stage volume, easier to monitor.....

i heard a similar story years ago, about frank zappa....
he had all these big cabinets on stage, and behind them was his actual rig....

a 57 on a pignose.

 

[matty_boy]

I read somewhere that ac/dc have iso booths under the stage with their favourite amps miced up.