Re: Speaker Recommendation

[PL500@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/4/03 6:51:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rbeltran@xxxxxxxxxx writes:


> George;
> Thanks for doing the homework for us here. You and I share the same taste 
> in
> sound...not the "traditional" Chicago sound, but something that is more
> "horn-like" that can be pushed into some sort of breakup when needed.
> 
> I'm afraid that the standard speaker recommendation for harp players along
> with tube swaps and modified-for-harp circuits has a negative cumulative
> effect on the final sound that ends up mostly all crunch, distortion, 
> and/or
> breakup achieved WAY too early with absolutely little or no headroom.
> 
> Headroom is so important in the style of blues I play. It affords me
> flexibility, dynamics, etc.
> 
> Once again, thanks.
> 
> Ray.
> www.fatdaddyblues.com
> ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

Most high-level professional guitar players usually play as clean as 
possible. The reason being the farther out the sound goes , the more 
distorted it gets. That is why all these punk bands guitar players, and SRV 
clones with their amps on 11 sound like absolute dog crap out front. 
More likely than not, if the amp is fairly distorted on stage , it is usually 
TOO distorted out front. This becomes especially obvious with multi-speaker 
enclosures (4X10, 2x12) like the RI Bassman, Blues Devilles, Super Reverb 
which tend to compound the problem by "beaming." Thats why many of those amps 
have those tilt back legs to put the amp off-axis to the crowd, its so that 
the sound which they hear doesn't make them cry in agony and have blood run 
out there ears. Alot of guys if they would just back off the distortion a 
bit, they would sound better out front. Its not just a matter of headroom on 
stage ,but also in what the audience has to hear (or bear from some tone I 
have heard in the past). Speaker, Tube mods will not fix this, but turning 
down usually will. This goes for guitar players especially!

Andrew