Guitar amp combinations...

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Member Since: Feb 17, 2003

I am thinking on buying a carvin half stack to go along with my marshall half stack. I was wondering if you guys thought that the two together would sound good in a live situation. They will both be pumping out sound at the same time. I am going for a good rock tone.

The links for the amps are:

Marshall: www.musiciansfriend.com/s...l/base_id/81816


Carvin: www.carvin.com/cgi-bin/Is...SX412&P1=SX

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Since: Sep 09, 2002


Aug 21, 2003 10:23 pm

wow - somebody's got some $ to burn!

i don't know anything about speakers, but i bet both of those heads are gonna rock. i've played thru some carvin combos and once thru a full stack and they all sounded great.

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Aug 22, 2003 05:29 am

OK, you hit me on a pet-peeve on this. The last band I was in The guitarist HAD to have two halfstacks one old fendar he had modded to be this monster head that sounded good (with issues I will not get into) and a Laney. The laney had good bottom end and other had good top end so he used them both. It did, in all fairness, sound awesome...by itself, but when we performed all the extra one did was muddy up the bottom end cuz the bass and drums were fighting with this other amp.

It pissed me off cuz all that was in his head was the sound of his guitar, NOT the sound of the band. I quit that band not too much longer...

The moral of the story is, look at the big picture before diving into anything.

Member
Since: Feb 17, 2003


Aug 22, 2003 06:27 am

yeah, thats what i have been doing. currnetly we just have one guitar, and i am looking to make the sound a litter more full. i was wondering if i used two different brands of amps would work. i am all about overall sound. i find myself in front of the band during practice to see if everything is mixed right all of the time. i am one of those guys that likes to have everything mixed perfect. a flaw i guess.

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