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its doomy metal, so it gets semi loud for rehearsals ive found using a little tc electronic 250 watter i had to have it almost on full. my sound city head i never really get past half on the volume and thats only 120w but its valves so different obviously. im guessing maybe id be ok with the peavey thing if i could get a decent deal on it if im not pushing the volume too high then, but i think i might hold out and wait for a 500w head to come up just so im not worrying about it. thanks for all the help!

oh no im not worried about volume, more breaking other peoples speakers with an amp that shouldnt go with the cabinet

heyo, just wondering if anyone could help with working out sortof how much wattage would be good to go for, im looking for a lighter smaller amp that i can walk to rehearsals with, ive got an old sound city head which is awesome but the thing weighs like 50kg so obviously not particularly portable. generally im playing through cabinets that arent mine, usually tend to be 4x10s, which seem to be around the 650 watt 8 ohm range. ive seen a peavey minimega used that i might make an offer on, but with 1000w is that too much, i know thats the ohmage and wattage works out different and honestly it confuses me alot, but i just want to know before i send an offer would i find myself not being able to use it with alot of cabinets because its too many watts? hopefully ive worded all that in a way that makes sense, any help will be appreciated! cheers, leo

hes defintely not someone i know a whole lot about but i seem to remember seeing a gear video from when he was in the who where he said he was using those because he didnt like the feel of rounds, and they were bright

depends on your play style and the type of music! i think slower doomy stuff you can get away with lower tension and it being floppy. my band plays in c and i just use power slinkies (55 to 110), the tensions low i think thats about the minimum you need for it to not go out of tune when you pick. if its more precise? music if you get what i mean, faster stuff i think you need the tension. probably best way to go would be a light 5 string set and dont use the g string

The sound city seems to be doing pretty good for sure! I'm a little paranoid it'll go bang one day but we shall see. Honestly I think I've overestimated the wattage I'd need, I saw eyehategod in Bournemouth this Tuesday gone and Gary had a 900 watt dark glass head and he had the volume less than half... Mega loud!

Honestly I was looking for something smaller and lighter than the sound city I have, but it cropped up on Facebook and it distracted me...

Thanks for the wisdom, I'm glad I asked! Honestly i didn't know about the wattage on cabinets, I just assumed you want at minimum the wattage of the amp for the cabinet considering Id be using it mostly with rehearsal room cabinets that's definitely something that could have been a problem.

I may throw my wanting something lighter away... I've been offered a pretty fair price on a marshall vba400, do you guys think that'd be a good doom amp? On paper I reckon it should be great, but you don't really see many people in the scene using one

from rehearsal yesterday, only the second time we've played together and things are going well! its my first time ever being in a band

gave it a go today, it goes alot louder than i thought... definetely loud enough! though something lighter would still be good but ill definitely hold off on something new for the moment

try the yellow dunlop tortex triangles, same material and thickness but alot bigger.

aah ive only run it through a 2x12 before, ill try it next practice through a bigger cab! it is vaguely original the weird preamps not been modified to my knowledge and its still got the huge partridge transformers but im not sure about the valves, the guy who helped me fix it bought those but i think they were new...

thanks all, ill hold off on going for anything soon, id really like to try keep spending under 250 or so, sounds like the laney digbeth or an ashdown abm600 are a decent bet to go for and i think ive seen those ashdowns pretty reasonably priced before so ill keep an eye out. definetely see how my sound city goes over the weekend through the 4x10 at the rehearsal space and maybe ill just keep running that, my only fear is it crapping out but i guess cross that bridge when i come to it