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TheGreatGreen said:
Hey guys I just found the perfect 20w amp to go with my 4 lb guitar and the socks I wear under my gigging crocs! AND it it has all the gain anybody would ever need to play even the heaviest Steely Dan songs!

Only thing that bums me out is this new 20w amp is just a bit heavy for me. Does anybody know how to make a 20 watt amp lighter, like maybe swapping out for smaller transformers or something?
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Here ya go...the Gorilla GG-20!!

 
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dstroud said:
thanks man, it was weird. He was built like an ox, worked out, ran, mountain biked and it took him out in like 2 weeks of getting it.
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Was the medical system overwhelmed at the time and care was subpar or was your bassist one of the few, who regardless what as done, it was over?
 
BeZo said:
I've been bringing two full stacks to gigs all over the Cleveland area lately. Most of these places are small bars.
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Heck yeah. And I bet your tone pretty much destroys all too with that arrangement.
 
I've been lifting 8x10s up stairs and onto stages for decades. All this guitar shit is light. I had an IEM rig and all the cabling in my rack with my SVT 2 Pro, and that was almost 200 lbs. I got that in the trailer by myself. It's the ideology that modern gear is lighter that leads people to think that silent stage is better (for the mix, for the ears, ets).

Silent Stage is the death of rock music.
 
alund said:
Was the medical system overwhelmed at the time and care was subpar or was your bassist one of the few, who regardless what as done, it was over?
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I think it was a combination of both. When he got to the point where he needed a ventilator they had to fly him a could hundred miles to get to one. But he declined so fast makes me think it was his body’s reaction as well.
 
BeZo said:
I've been lifting 8x10s up stairs and onto stages for decades. All this guitar shit is light. I had an IEM rig and all the cabling in my rack with my SVT 2 Pro, and that was almost 200 lbs. I got that in the trailer by myself. It's the ideology that modern gear is lighter that leads people to think that silent stage is better (for the mix, for the ears, ets).

Silent Stage is the death of rock music.
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I agree about the death of rock music, but silent stages has been a thing long before modelers came along. At least in larger venues.
In a small pace I don’t understand it, because, isn’t anyone at the front not going to hear anything but the drums or at least a very drum dominant mix?
I even hear it in some crowd shot, phone video’s where the drums just dominate and everything else sounds distant.
 
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Being on a ventilator sucks. I almost died a few years ago and while in surgery they had to put me on a ventilator. When they brought me out of it I wanted a drink of water so bad I couldn’t stand it. Throat felt like the salt flats in Utah. Then I was told I couldn’t have anything because they put a feeding tube in me. I was enraged…jumped on my wife… total dick reaction…. I couldn’t eat or drink for 14 weeks….
 
DanTravis62 said:
The crazy part is

Especially if you're gigging all the time

Bands who use real gear sound better, consistently, no contest, no question, until you're playing theater sized venues where the gap evens out a little bit. But EVEN THEN, real amps sound better most of the time IMO, because most people don't take the time to dial their modelers well.

The TGP types wail about how their grab-n-go pedal modeler is better because it's light or whatever, then they play and they're completely at the mercy of whatever the sound reinforcement is
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Yeah, fuck that....real amps or nothing. I’m still not lugging a 4x12 around but my 2x12s get it done and then some, and they need real amps to push them. What the modeler kooks and for sure the audience don’t get is the total lack of anything actually coming from the stage. Heh we rarely mic anything but manage to get it right just from running things that way, but good sound guys are a treat for sure, just not gonna pay most of them what they think they’re worth. Oh yeah, fuck that modeler shit ;-)
 
I used to have so much gear (and still have most of it) that my friend suggested I start a company for gear rentals for when bigger acts came through Chattanooga. I didn't want to do that, but I did, however, offer to let him have all my shit on stage at one of the shows they were playing, just for the visual effect of a massive backline with tons of big amps/cabs and guitars that weren't even going to get played. It was sort of tongue in cheek, but it would've been awesome for fans to walk in and see the wall of gear that wasn't even plugged in. Long live 4x12s and tube amps!
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Just outside of the capitol of Washington in the pines where the sun don't ever shine.
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I've been there. It's spectacular. I remember visiting a big waterfall there and iirc, outside of Seattle there are mini mountains popping up. And in Seattle, people were driving the speed limit or close to it. That surprised me. All in all, I really liked it up there.
 
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