Hey again everyone,
so today for the first time in my life I had a neighbour knock on my door telling me to turn down. I was playing my Laney IRT Studio 15 Watt amp through my Marshall 412 going into the 15 Watt input with the Volume on 2.
Some might know from my NAD thread that I got the amp for silent night playing anyway, it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon so technically I'm allowed to play louder but I'm not the kind of guy who wants to annoy neighbours, not everybody enjoys a mixture of Blues, Death Metal and Solo w**kery transferred through walls.
Now this got me thinking... I have a band forming so sooner or later I will need some stage power, but my DSL and my Savage are rather chunky compared to the Laney and I have all my basic tones covered with the IRT Studio and my pedals.
So I would just go ahead and sell the Marshall and the Savage as I have no use for them right now and don't look forward hauling them around for future gigs anyway (done that for years with my Valveking and my old band), but I'm afraid the IRT Studio just won't cut it in a live environment volume wise.
Now the Laney is a rackhead amplifier with a dummy load so I do have the option of using the preamp out into a poweramp without connecting a cab, I was thinking I could just play the IRT silently at home, keep it in a rack with a poweramp (fifty watts or hundred doesn't matter, I know the volume difference is only 3dbs) and have the additional power for gigs when I need it. Should be easier to haul around as well.
So what do you think? Am I on the right track here? Sure I could just plug into my DSLs powersection with the 4 EL34s putting out a 100 watts, but then again I might just as well play the Marshall in the first place...
Looking forward to opinions, cheers!
