Rumble 800 combo not loud enough??

[LITTLEWING]

I was in a three piece a few moons back where the guitard was insanely loud even at rehearsal. Live in a pub i kept upgrading my gear until I had an Ashdown 300 head and Ashdown 8x10 cab. He simply wopped his Vox combo up even more and the drummer was losing weight sweating his n*ts off.

Band I'm in now playing covers I'm using an old Laney 100 watt 1 x15" combo and it's plenty loud enough because we're all grown up.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

On 21/10/2025 at 08:34, synthaside said:

Buy a cheap  DB meter on amazon 

Most cheap dB meters only have 'A' weighting. They don't measure bass. You need 'C' or 'Z' weighting. 

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"I havent ever titlted it or put it on a stand off the floor as many say dont elevate it as you lose the bottom end." 

True, if it's lifted by a meter or more. Less than that and there's no loss of bottom end. If you don't tilt or lift it the highly directional mids critical for the perception of loudness are passing by your knees, which can't hear them, rather than by your ears, which can. 

[Downunderwonder]

The losing bottom end with raising cab thing is an impossibly difficult meme to kill because....guitarists. G man gets blasted by treble from his amp and can't hear any bass. That's his actual tone that everyone in front of it hears.

 

Same goes for bassists but as logical thinkers we are easier to convince.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

Bingo! I once had a guitar'd player who insisted on having his JBL loaded Fender Twin on the floor two feet in back of him. It sounded fine to him, but made the zone in the audience directly in front of him uninhabitable. I asked him why he didn't use the tilt back legs. He said it made the highs too loud. I then noted that placed flat it made the highs too loud in the audience. All that elicited was a blank stare. 🫢

[nekomatic]

On 30/10/2025 at 02:23, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

your knees, which can't hear them, rather than by your ears, which can. 

How do you know that the OP isn’t a grasshopper?