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--- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I'm just wondering how some of those walls of amps I > > see behind, say, Brian May or Edward VanHalen work, > > in terms of power. > > That's mostly for reasons other than power, including: > 1) Looks. In the early days, Kiss used to tour with a > wall of empty Marshall cabs, using one or two real > ones. Yep, apparently a lot of bands did this. I've even seen cabinet blanks being sold. It's a speaker cabinet box, with no speakers. The front board isn't even cut for them. Apparently it saved on cost and weight to make 'em that way. > 2) Sound spread, to be able to hear oneself from many > points across a large stage. Eddie Van Halen has been > quoted as saying he liked to feel his pants legs > ripple in front of his cabinets. Man. It's a wonder the guy can still hear ANYTHING. I was doing sound for a band not long ago and their stage volume was so loud that it literally distorted my vision when I went to stage to check out their monitors. Yow! > 3) Separation of a complex signal. Brian May's wall of > AC30s allowed him to send the different delayed > signals from his tape echoes to different amps to > avoid having them mush all together into mud. (This > reason is the most applicable to us as loopers...) It's probably also to get additional sounds, since the AC30 has both a cool overdrive and a great clean sound, but it doesn't have multiple channels, so if you want instant access to both, you need two amps. I know people like Eric Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughn had lots of amps on stage, but it was for the variety. Greg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com