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please recommend amps for endorsement
please recommend amps for endorsement
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6SN7
338 posts
Jul 19, 2013
7:53 AM
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Very cool site that harpmic shop, thanks for the tip!
I tell you HK, those PA's look so funky, so cool, but for whatever reason, it seems my amps and harp stuff always gets knocked over by some drunk crazy at the bars. And I really try to protect my stuff but how do you deal with an incoming 150 lbs plus jitterbugger who has slipped off the hand of their partner and is backpeddling uncontrollably towards you!
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HawkeyeKane
1898 posts
Jul 19, 2013
8:35 AM
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Yeah man, I know what you mean. Seems like I always run across that when playing at country watering holes. Thing about most PA heads (ie-Bogens, Mascos, Knights) is that they have a solid metal enclosure. Ventilated yes, but durable. The DuKane's that I like so much have a wire mesh screen for protection. One wrong move with a drink.....you're screwed. But that rack mount one he has now...wouldn't be too much trouble to build a more sturdy cabinet for that. Or hell, even mount it into a rack with some effects units.
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Hawkeye Kane
Last Edited by HawkeyeKane on Jul 19, 2013 8:35 AM
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LSC
474 posts
Jul 19, 2013
12:12 PM
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@6sn7 & Rick
I've owned about six tube PA heads of one description or another and suffice to say my experience of how useful they were is different. But then I don't believe everything as described in an auction listing and I'm careful as to what I buy.
I would agree that, with one possible exception, none of the PA heads I've owned would be great for bar gigging on a regular basis. Having said that, there were many situations, depending on location and the type of band, an important factor, where they were fine. Horses for courses.
If tube PAs were as useless for anyone no matter as you seem to suggest and I'm in dreamland than I guess Skip Simmons has been wasting many years of his life and a whole lot of money for his customers. In any event, I did not see usefulness for gigging in any and all bar situations as a criteria for suggestions. And that's what it was, a suggestion.
As for over enthusiastic patrons and what to do, personally I just hip check them long before they ever get close to anybody's gear. And if that should fail and someone should ultimately crash, a combo can also suffer from grill and speaker puncher, liquids in the innards, bouncing off the floor and other disasters. So I guess the only viable solution to all eventualities is not to have an amp at all but to play through a solid state PA.
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LSC
Last Edited by LSC on Jul 19, 2013 2:34 PM
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