Members pima007 Posted December 5, 2003 Members Share Posted December 5, 2003 Looking for an acoustic amp with balls. any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt McGriff Posted December 5, 2003 Members Share Posted December 5, 2003 Just get a Marshall Full Stack! Try this one. http://www.guitaradoptions.com/prodcat/customer/product.php?productid=16752&cat=261&page=1 http://www.guitaradoptions.com/prodcat/customer/product.php?productid=17081&cat=261&page=1 There are a lot of 200 watt acoustic amps out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dave251 Posted December 6, 2003 Members Share Posted December 6, 2003 A 200 watt amp doesn't do you any good unless you have speaker efficiency to go with it. Remember that a doubling of output watts will give you only 3db increase in overall gain. And, to achieve an apparent "doubling" of loudness, you would need 10dB....so, your 200 watt amp, given the same speaker system, could possibly be only twice as loud as your 50 watt amp. Unless of course the speakers go into "power compression" which occurs as you pump the watts to the speakers and the voice coils get hot, causing them to lose efficiency. So in real world terms, and taking into account power compression, your 200 watt amp will be able to deliver only about half again more volume than the 50 watt amp. Choose your amp by SPEAKER EFFICIENCY rather than output power... The best of the "acoustic amps" are really the powered speakers from JBL and Mackie.....IMHO..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitar Adoptions Posted December 6, 2003 Members Share Posted December 6, 2003 I agree with Matt (obviously), it's hard to beat the UltraSound Pro 200. It's also probably more than most folks need. The Pro 100 tends to give a lot of what you want in the "power" department, but at a lower price point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members min7b5 Posted December 6, 2003 Members Share Posted December 6, 2003 I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretmess Posted December 6, 2003 Members Share Posted December 6, 2003 Old Peavy solid state Classic 130. What a speaker- got clean channel eq boost and presence. Repaired one a while back and this is the loudest amp that you can carry anywhere. Pushes 130 watts through 4 ohms on the speaker. If you can find one in a pawn shop it ought to be cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CDT-shag Posted December 7, 2003 Members Share Posted December 7, 2003 I hear the new fishman loudbox is just that..a very loud box..and it sounds great. I spoke with john at shoreline a few weeks ago and he said it rattled the rafters..and that's the 250w version..the 500w is coming soon.. http://www.samusic.com/amplification/fishman_loudbox.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JohnnyF Posted December 11, 2003 Members Share Posted December 11, 2003 Another thing to consider is that you can only go so "loud" before your acoustic guitar will start feeding back (squealing)...a decent 50+ watt amp (my Kustom KAA-65 is 65 watts) is as loud as I've ever needed, even with my band's rhythm section going full-tilt! I do run the amp's line out to the PA, so essentially my amp is functioning as a guitar monitor, but that's pretty much the normal way to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbarkow Posted December 11, 2003 Members Share Posted December 11, 2003 Hi everybody -- I'm back from vacation (if you can call moving a vacation) Anyway, you ought to be able to make some *horrible* squealing with this 600-watter...... http://www.carvin.com/cgi-bin/Isearch.exe?CFG=2&P2=RC210&P1=BA In the last part of the description, they say that you can use it as an acoustic amp. Looks like it has plenty of tone-shaping control, not to mention headroom. Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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