Have you gigged with power tube distortion?

[metropolis_4]

Thought from another thread:

Have you ever played a gig where you were pushing a tube amp into power amp distortion?

(Modelers don’t count)

 

[DrewJD82]

If I did, it was so damn loud I couldn’t tell and it would have been a Dual Rec. It only would have happened in some situation where my cab wasn’t mic’d and in a non-ideal spot.

 

[Orvillain]

Saturation.

 

[adam]

Not gigged, but I once got the master volume on my mark IV up to 2/10 and I could feel my teeth rattling in my skull. I've no idea if the power amp was distorting at that point

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Saturation.

distortion

 

[Orvillain]

distortion

Saturation.

 

[Frodebro]

Not gigged, but I once got the master volume on my mark IV up to 2/10 and I could feel my teeth rattling in my skull. I've no idea if the power amp was distorting at that point

I bypassed the loop/MV circuit in my Mark V once and tried it with the channel masters at noon.



Once.

As far as cranking it up in a gig situation, absolutely. This was back in the 90s when nobody even had heard of "silent stages." We regularly had "everything on ten, every man for himself" nights, generally the last set when the place was packed and everybody was drunk.

 

[Sleezy E]

I picked the third option because my first big live rig was a solid state crate head and 4x12 and then I went to a Boss gt3 into a power amp and a 4x12.

I did play gigs here and there with backline tube amps and occasionally used friends gear from time to time. But I never put a lot of mileage on one

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Thought from another thread:

Have you ever played a gig where you were pushing a tube amp into power amp distortion?

(Modelers don’t count)

50-watt JCM800 1x12 combo - loud
Fender Vibrochamp, 2-prong plug, it stopped getting louder by about 6, but played it on 9. 10 was just too much :)

 

[FuzzyAce]

Sure. But usually lower wattage amps.
Traynor YGM-3, Carvin Legacy (with GT tube adapters using EL84s, various homebuilt amps in the 15-20 watt range.

 

[Blix]

Heck yeah, was in a semi-successful band around 2000-20001 and we had some festival gigs with huge stages with little to no volume restrictions.
This one outdoor festival on this stage on the photo below I used a 50w 1968 plexi on 10 and had to place myself in the beam of the 4x12 to hear myself , didn't seem loud at all! Really fun to be able to crank it a couple times, in smaller clubs I was at 4-5 on the volumes at most, often with a flightcase lid in front of the cab.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Heck yeah, was in a semi-successful band around 2000-20001 and we had some festival gigs with huge stages with little to no volume restrictions.
This one outdoor festival on this stage on the photo below I used a 50w 1968 plexi on 10 and had to place myself in the beam of the 4x12 to hear myself , didn't seem loud at all! Really fun to be able to crank it a couple times, in smaller clubs I was at 4-5 on the volumes at most, often with a flightcase lid in front of the cab.




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You look an awful lot like Eric Clapton

 

[JiveTurkey]

I voted no but then re-remembered I gigged an AD140 for a good stretch in early 2000s

 

[Blix]

You look an awful lot like Eric Clapton

Haha, I don't have any pictures from the gig, but was the same stage just a different year, we played before Sting and I spent his concert standing behind Dominic Millers Mesa!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Haha, I don't have any pictures from the gig, but was the same stage just a different year, we played before Sting and I spent his concert standing behind Dominic Millers Mesa!

Oh lordy that dude is

 

[TSJMajesty]

Yeah, at several outdoor gigs I got to open things up, using my Mesa Stereo 50/50 + MP-1 rig, into a pair of Marshall 4x12's.

It was awesome! But too few and far in between. Gigs, that is.

A few times I also used my JCM Marshall half stack with a Power Soak. And that was definitely into PAD. It was like a totally different amp, it sounded so good!

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Yep, with my old Prog/Punk band, CHT. 95% of our gigs were unmic'ed except vocals, maybe kick drum. Couldn't hear shit because my amp was at knee/ass level and the cymbals at ear level so diming the master seemed like the logical solution. Bassist had an Ampeg fridge with a 200w tube head and other guitarist had a JCM2000. I had a Carvin MTS3200 and we were loud AF

 

[DrewJD82]

I did use to crank the shit out of my Legacy, but I was dropping the whole rig volume down with a rack delay in the loop, so I dunno if that counts.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Everything i did from 79 to 95 then i started mellowing.
From 2000 smaller amps loaded down into power amps til the Axe-Fx days in 2008

 

[unix-guy]

Yes... Budda Super drive II 20W 2x12... Loved it!