[Harp-L] Portable P.A. amp?

[Doug Schroer <dougharps@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have had good luck with the Fender 1270P Powered 10 2-Way Stage/Performance Monitors, powered monitors that I bought to use with my PA.  I now own two.  They are small, light, and 100watts.  They have line and XLR in as well as volume and tone, and if used with a PA have line in and out that allow control from the PA and chaining the two.  

I have used them one at a time, or sometimes chained at gigs.  With a small mixer and both speakers, you have a mini PA.  I have played gigs with a single one without a mixer, (though I usually use one of my tube amps mic'ed to the PA for gigs).  I even used one to reinforce a small tube amp with an 8" speaker to play a moderately loud gig.  

I have sometimes used a vocal mic or Fireball V to the XLR,  I have used a digitech Genesis 1 with the FireballV through a transformer to the line in, and on another occasion I used a Bad Monkey pedal with a delay in the line in 1/4" input with a Hi-Z Shure 585V.  All these sounded good through the 1270P.  I once had one in the trunk of my car when playing with a guitar player at a coffee house, and the PA at the venue died.  Our act and another act (guitar duo) played the gig through one monitor and a small mixing board to the line in.  

I love these things!