LFSys Monza

[eude]

18 hours ago, Obrienp said:

This is a FB comment I got from my local luthier and multi-instrumentalist who attended one of my band’s gigs on Sunday. I really respect his opinion on all things musical. I think it demonstrates how good a single Monza is. “Patrick T R O'Brien. Bass sounded great down the room - really fat in the low end and punchy. Great sound from such a small rig. Sounds much bigger.”

Awesome to hear matey, how big was the venue?

[Obrienp]

3 hours ago, eude said:

Awesome to hear matey, how big was the venue?

In this case it was a pub. Fairly narrow long bar room packed with punters.

[Clarky]

Casual inquiry: would a Monza and Trace TE-1200 (800W at 8 ohms) be a disastrous match? Shame Trace don't do a less extreme powered head (unless you go all the way down to an Elf)

 

(Edit: with my back/neck issues, I couldn't really confortably handle a Monaco ... to provide context)

 

Edited 19 hours ago by Clarky

[Phil Starr]

It's the amp @stevie uses

[Obrienp]

1 hour ago, Clarky said:

Casual inquiry: would a Monza and Trace TE-1200 (800W at 8 ohms) be a disastrous match? Shame Trace don't do a less extreme powered head (unless you go all the way down to an Elf).

 

Yes, you would think they would do a 500, or 600 watt head. They have a Peavey 600 watt head in the same stable. 

[chyc]

There used to be a page on Barefaced's website about mixing cabinet and amp ratings. It's gone now sadly so you cannot verify what I'm relaying, but it basically boiled down to that you can pair any powered cabinet with any powered amp, if you're sensible. If the cabinet rating is higher than the amp rating, then you're not reaching the cabinet's full potential. Any online information about how distorted waves coming from an underpowered amp break a cabinet just aren't true.

 

If the amp rating is higher than the cabinet rating, then the amp has the potential to blow the speakers. However, with sensible usage you will be fine as the speakers will be telling you that they are unhappy with unpleasant distortion, particularly on the low notes. Only caveat to that is when you put an aggressive HPF in the signal chain and you reach the thermal limit rather than the excursion limit of the speaker. With decent drivers such as in the Barefaced or LFSys ranges, you'd have to be absolutely ragging them for that.

 

This Barefaced page is still referenced on their Info pages, but the actual page is no longer there. Are we to read into that? 

[barkin]

2 hours ago, chyc said:

 

This Barefaced page is still referenced on their Info pages, but the actual page is no longer there. Are we to read into that? 

 

The page is still there - just the link's broken.

 

https://barefacedaudio.com/pages/amp-vs-cab-power

[stevie]

17 hours ago, Clarky said:

Casual inquiry: would a Monza and Trace TE-1200 (800W at 8 ohms) be a disastrous match? Shame Trace don't do a less extreme powered head (unless you go all the way down to an Elf)

 

 

The TE-1200 and LFSys Monza are a match made in heaven. As @Phil Starr says, it's the amp I use, and I arrived at it having tried a lot of different heads over the years. Because of the high power of the Trace, you have to be sensible with the volume control, but your ears will be ringing before you overload the cab.

[eude]

38 minutes ago, stevie said:

 

The TE-1200 and LFSys Monza are a match made in heaven. As @Phil Starr says, it's the amp I use, and I arrived at it having tried a lot of different heads over the years. Because of the high power of the Trace, you have to be sensible with the volume control, but your ears will be ringing before you overload the cab.

This does not help