[Almost Enough]

Originally Posted by roscoestring

It's strange that the bands that I've played with always want to be loud. I don't understand that. Loud is not always better. I did turn my amp (a Roc Pro 1000 - Fender) to 3 once. That was too loud. But it did drown out the bagpipe player.

I get in arguments with the other people on our worship team about that all the time. Louder is better to a point. There's a point where it ceases to be better, too. But this is another discussion entirely.

[DaGeek]

The loudest I've ever played was when I kicked my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe up to 12 and just belted out whatever came to me. I've done that both in my house and in my church, and it's a glorious experience . Those tubes sound phenomenal when they're all fired up!

[Stratopastor]

Mine was Oxford Town Hall, in the 1980s - a 1500-seater. At the time I was using a Marshall JCM800 2x12 combo, unmiked. I remember being almost scared to stand in front of it and play but I knew its job was to project to the back of the hall. Fortunately the stage is pretty deep from the front-line to the back, but even so it was the loudest I've ever heard myself. Seems pretty neanderthal now, compared with miking and DI-ing. No desire to return to those days....

[ibanez_dude]

Pretty dang loud, but I don't generally play with a dB meter in my hand :P we did have a "how to lose your hearing 101" session the other day. 4 combos and 4 monitors pointed at your head is a little much :P i've mixed some pretty unbelievable shows before, where I'm pushing 115dB from FOH, like at the back of the room, the last one was apparently about 125 upfront, glad that was just a "soundcheck," not an actual show :P

[BillSPrestonEsq]

I once was playing slick shoes riffs in Hemet loud with my brothers.

Somewhere off in the distance my brothers and I hear someone else playing along with us. We started trading lines of "fulfilling."

Later I found out we were trading lines of a song over 4-8 blocks after I finally met them a couple years later and heard them tell the story.

It was pretty loud. As in really, really freakishly loud. I have numerous times felt my pants flapping in the breeze, but that was by a fair margin the loudest I ever played. (I used to run my traynors clean channel in church with the clean as high as it could go without breaking up for clean stuff routinely, YCV 50, and that to me is fairly loud.)

[Ryan the Lion]

peavey 6505+ on a mesa 4x12
Lead channel: pre @ 7 out of 10 and post @ 5 out of 10 my ears were hurting i was tempted to go higher but didnt want to loose my ears

to give this gravity when i was playing with my former band in a non-insulated garage huge drum kit, 4x10 bass amp another 4x12 guitar stack and 2 people doing vocals; anymore than 2.5 out of 10 on the post control would totally drown everyone out
on a 45' stage amphitheater they let me go to 3.5 any more and they would have to max out their PA system

[Plexi8759]

At church I use two Marshall non master volume heads 50w & 100w ; an ac30hh head ; and a RI 65 twin reverb. Volumes : Marshall 50w 6 ; Marshall 100w 8 ; ac30 5 ; twin reverb 4.5. I use Framptone amp switchers to select a single amp or all 4 blended together at the same time!!!

The experience is definitely not for the feint of heart and those with pace makers ect are warned!!! Lol !!!

Some perspective : If your familiar with the twins volume output ... Even when driven to sweet overdrive at volumes 7 or 8 it doesn't keep up with either Marshall individually in terms of volume output!

[Hey I'm Matt]

Originally Posted by Chocolate Bear

I turned it up to 11.

So have I! (My peavey windsor goes up to 12 lol)

[Plexi8759]

Our amps go to eleven. ... Spinal Tap ...

[Ax]

I once played on a 3/4 Stack. By that I mean, I had my 212 Combo and a 412 cab running off my B52. I had the thing sitting around 9 or 10... In the school auditorium. It was... EPIC!