Jeff McErlain - How Many Watts Does My Amp Need To Be?
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I often get asked what wattage amp do I recommend. The first thing I do is discuss what they are looking for, home use, small gigs, big gigs, etc. It’s really easy to be overpowered for many gigs and I more often than not find this is the case. Conversely there is nothing more frustrating playing a gig and your amp isn’t keeping up with the rest of the band. In this edition of Tone Tips I won’t do any playing, but hopefully this will help answer this question!
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Yeah, it's one of those questions that can't be answered without a lot more clarification. Thankfully the answer is "more than just one", because life would suck if we needed just one amp. ✌️🇦🇺
Very informative, thank you :)
Morning Jeff, Love your channel. Dig your playing. I think you have a typo in your title, I think you meant to say, "How many watts does MY amp have to be?" but it reads "How many watts does MAY amp have to be?" Love the subject, great video and very timely. Right "up my street" as the Brits might say.
@JeffMcErlain
6 жыл бұрын
Ha! Thanks! I missed that, much appreciated!
Great video! I'm currently thinking about buying a fender tube amp. The one I have in mind is the 68 custom deluxe reverb with 22 watts and I'm not sure if that's good enough... I'm playing in an indie band and we do gigs that are small to medium clubsized. Sometimes open air. Thoughts? :[
Man, that was a great video!, thanks a lot. Could you please tell me if a fender hot rod deluxe (40 watt) could sound nice if used as a pedal platform, so that i could get the tones i want out if my pedals and basicly just turn the Master up? Thanks
@JeffMcErlain
5 жыл бұрын
Miguel Gutierrez Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the hot rod is an excellent pedal platform. I use that on the road sometimes for the very reason you are asking.
Cool. Helped line up how to look at this. 30-40W; better speakers; 1x12 / 2x12. Perspective on Katana Ii 50?
@JeffMcErlain
4 жыл бұрын
Zach Shoher oh cool! Glad it helped! I think the Katana is a great amp. I have a 1x12 50 watt as well!
No mention of power soaks / attenuators. Also, how are you using your UA OX?
@JeffMcErlain
Жыл бұрын
Don’t use them on gigs. We don’t care from them I only use the ox for silent recording.
Good info until you get to speakers. Wattage handling and efficiency (sensitivity) is not connected as you imply The Celestian Blue is only a 15W speaker bit it has a sensitivity of 100db (1w at 1 meter) while the Celestion 25W Greenback has a sensitivity of only 98db. The Celestion Classic Lead 80 which is 80W has a sensitivity of only 99db. A speaker like the Jensen P12R (25W rating) is a lot less efficient than a Celestion Blue (15W) mostly because ithe P12R has a one inch voice coil compared to all the Celestions that have one and three quarter inch voice coils.
@JeffMcErlain
Жыл бұрын
Ok
40 to 50 watts will get you through anything realistically. If you need a hundred watts, you're playing on a big stage and you'll figure all that out by the time you're doing that.