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The Kool-Aid Kid

The Kool-Aid Kid

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I'm currently rocking a 30w combo amp with one 10" driver... so, provided there are no other instruments and my audience is less than five people, I'm in good shape.

Been hunting either a big combo or a half-stack - sorry, a 6x10 or 8x10 won't fit in my car - I'm and I'm just wondering what you guys have had good experiences with. I'm hoping for at least 300 watts and trying to stay away from 15" speakers, I'd prefer like 10's or 12's.
 
Dude. Shuttle 6.0. Neo 112/210 will have you covered. Portability, and a lot of power.
Don't underestimate it's single 12" or double 210 and 375 watts in 8 ohm. (If you add a 8 ohm extension cab you'll be pushing 600 watts at 4 ohms!) and the small, portable head. It's loud like crazy. Sweet tone, tube preamp solid state poweramp.
 
i have been using an eden 112xlt and 210xlt for a while now. it fits easily in my car (civic 2 door coupe) and sounds fucking amazing.
 
$1000 max and nothing larger than a coffee shop / garage / basement really, as for type of music I need something un-specialized as I play blues and country.
 
Nothing larger than a coffee shop/garage/basement?

Get either a Pro FET 3.3, or if you want some reserve for anything bigger in the future, get a Pro FET 5.2.

Pair the head up with a single WCA211 Pro Cab - plenty loud for the size rooms you've described, and fantastic tone.

:D

Later, if you need to get louder, buy a second 211 Pro to take the head down to 4 ohms, or even a 411 Pro if you prefer.

;)

Job's done!

:D
 
Eberbachl said:
Eberbachl said:
What's your budget?

:)
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In addition to your budget, what kind of rooms are
you going to play, and what type of music is it?
;)
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Larger than 5-person capacity,
playing non-solo music ......


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whyachi said:
$1000 max and nothing larger than a coffee
shop / garage / basement really, as for type
of music I need something un-specialized as
I play blues and country.
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A common theme devoloping in the posted
recommendations so far is a 12" driver and
a few hundred watts. It's my fave basic rig
so I'll hafta agree. And $1000 should do it.
How much you spend governs how much
miniaturization you can get.

The Shuttle, like the old AI Coda and some
others, is plainly a head bolted on top of a
campact cab. Personally, bolted or not, I'll
always see that as a head-and-cab, and I'd
rather have it without the bolts, thank you.

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My 12" combos tend to be only about 60W,
but I have a few mini and compact heads in
the 250W to 400W range, which are almost
invariably sitting on a singe 12 when in use.

I prefer to transport stuff as more, smaller
components rather than as fewer but larger
components. My typical load-in consists of
one trip: gigbag on my back, 12" cab in one
hand, plus a shoulder-slung bag containing
a small head and misc stuff such as a 25 ft
AC extension, etc. If this sounds tooo easy,
you could add a guitar stand, but I do not.

The lack of bolts also means I can use any
cab with any head.

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I'm currently using an Ashdown ABM 500 2x10 combo - sounds great and plenty loud enough. It also has a nice natural sound, is easy to carry and fits in the boot of my car no probs.

The valve overdrive is nice and I use it a fair bit - either to get a bit more interest in the finger stuff or to give it some gnarly crunch. I don't tend to use the subharmonic generator (posh name for octaver) - it's not that great.

I use it totally flat most of the time and it cuts through drums, guitar and keys. Totally love it....way easier than my old TE rig.

G
 
golem said:
whyachi said:
$1000 max and nothing larger than a coffee
shop / garage / basement really, as for type
of music I need something un-specialized as
I play blues and country.
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A common theme devoloping in the posted
recommendations so far is a 12" driver and
a few hundred watts. It's my fave basic rig
so I'll hafta agree. And $1000 should do it.
How much you spend governs how much
miniaturization you can get.

The Shuttle, like the old AI Coda and some
others, is plainly a head bolted on top of a
campact cab. Personally, bolted or not, I'll
always see that as a head-and-cab, and I'd
rather have it without the bolts, thank you.

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My 12" combos tend to be only about 60W,
but I have a few mini and compact heads in
the 250W to 400W range, which are almost
invariably sitting on a singe 12 when in use.
The lack of bolts also means I can use any
cab with any head.

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The Shuttle's head sits in a bracket & removes without tools. :wink:
 
at the Church we use an SWR Workingman's combo 15. it is loud and I think it has a 15" subwoofer plus a tweeter. it is very loud and thumping. we use it as a monitor and to send our signal to the main PA.
 
Greg said:
The Shuttle's head sits in a bracket & removes without tools. :wink:
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But the bracket remains, unless one reaches for one's tools,
which I would. Otherwise, if you just slip off the head you've
got a head ready for use with other cabs, but the cab is still
wearing that bracket, so it has gotten no smaller, and is not
really ready to use with another head.

I have a 12" Radiator cab from a Mesa WalkAbout, a sorta
precursor of the GB Shuttle. I never had the Mesa head ....
just the cab. There's a boxy, empty semi-open chamber at
the rear of the cab where the head would slip in. At least
the cab is still all rectangular with uninterrupted panels on
all sides .... IOW ready for use with any head. And I carry
the speaker cable and AC extension cord in that chamber.

BTW, the Mesa WalkAbout is prolly a quite cool 12" combo.
I know the cab sounds great. The amps are well respected
but, by personal experience, I can only speak for the cab.


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GK 700-RB II/210.

This combo is pretty sick. Sounds way louder than its 320 watt rating. Add any 8 ohm extension cab and it will be 480 watts, plus a 6 dB cabinet coupling gain.

The SWR Redhead and Workingman combos sound really nice, but their output tends to sound way quieter than their power ratings would have you believe, frequently resulting in damaged speaker cones.

I play SWR now and love the tone - but I'm pushing over 1000 watts of air at times. My old GK rig was a 1001 RB with 115 RBH and 210 RBH cabinets and man, did it rock.
 
Remove the bracket,problem solved.
It's their for carrying the thing.
 
Greg said:

Remove the bracket,problem solved.
It's their for carrying the thing.
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Agreed. Like I said, I would definitely whip
out the tool kit, not just slip the head outa
the bracket. Also as I said, I just see such
rigs as what they are: head and cab. BTW
is there a handle on the cab to carry it if
the bracket is removed ? Would be nice
of them to have included that ....

My main point all along has been that once
you're past the 50W or 100W level, I can't
see the point in seeking out a combo, and
I was trying to emphasise that by pointing
out that some of the more powerful newer
"combos" are not really combos anywayz.

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