On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:24:31 -0600, "Marty"
wrote:


"Roger" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:34:10 -0600, "Marty"
wrote:


--SNIP---
As a sound tech, I have had the opportunity to stand in front of some very
large sub cabinets. These buggers would blow your clothes similar to
having
your back to a 40mph+ wind.

I have an old Fender Super Twin Reverb concert amp with 395 watts of
peak music power out. 195 watts RMS. (6, 6L6s) I can guarantee when
it's cranked it'll snap your pant legs like a blast out of an air hose
when you pop a low E string.

You bet!
What I left out was that it wasn't a constant "wind". As you know it's the
back and forth of the subs that make your pants snap. The subs I routinely
use are 8 cabinets (Peavy UDHs if your into it) w/4 16" black widows
ea.,using a 2kw Crown amp to drive each cabinet.

You are setting the volume for the back of the crowd so they can
*feel* the low notes and hear them over all the racket made by the
crowd.

I can't imagine how there can be any musicians left who have played an
outdoor concert that can still hear.

I just played for fun, although my guitar teacher played the circuit
and called me up on stage to play a few times, but these were night
clubs not open air concerts.

When I was a lot younger and on the road going to computer schools for
the company I worked for, I used to hunt up the music stores that
mainly catered to the small groups that might end up playing open air
concerts.

I'd go in, try out a few guitars, start a few blues cord progressions
and it wouldn't be long at all before we'd have a combo going. The
store owners liked it as they'd get a pretty good crowd that way and I
got to play a lot of guitars I couldn't afford to own. :-))

I was setting there by myself one day just running through some
progressions and riffs (kinda trading 8's by myself) when the store
owner walked over. I thought he was going to turn the amp off, but he
*cranked* that sucker. :-)) That was in a store just north of
Philadelphia and a bit south of Willow Grove. Nuther story but I
managed to spend an afternoon loose on the base with my cameras.
Yes there were areas I was told to stay well away from, but I managed
to get a guided tour trough some of those (without cameras).

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

No collapsed lungs after this many years, but it will give you an
upset stomach with too many low notes.

Ah Ha! So that's what it was! ;-)

They have left welts on my legs from my jeans snapping on my skin, but I
never lost a lung tho.

What say?? Speak up.

g
Marty

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com