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Old 11-29-2003, 11:33 AM   #16
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One can only assume we're talking about bass amps here... It's rather foolish to keep thinking that the original poster is referring to 800+ watt guitar amps when none are made by anyone but a boutique amp company at most.

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Old 11-29-2003, 04:23 PM   #17
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A 1000 watt amp is only 2x as loud as a 100 watt amp.
is this to double the decibel rating, or the perceived volume? I'm hoping its the latter, but i always get confused.
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Old 11-29-2003, 04:31 PM   #18
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Decibel ratings. I don't know how it compares to percieved volume. I'm doubt many people want to stand in front of a cranked 1000 watt amp to find out if it really is 2x as loud as a 100 watt amp anyways...

Bass players need that kind of clean sound at high volumes.
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Old 11-29-2003, 04:35 PM   #19
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sorry i wasn't specific (at all)......yes, I was talking about bass amps (for the most part), mostly after going on ebay and looking at bass heads with a crapload of wattage on them. And I was exaggerating on the 800+ watts.....I basically meant more watts than I can imagine would be needed.

I did not know that bass frequencies had need for more wattage than guitars, though now I think about it, it makes sense. You learn something new every day I guess.
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Actually there is no exaggeration. Many solid-state bass amps do go up past 800 watts. It's because, again, 1000 watts is only 2x as loud as 100 watts.
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800 bass watts is pretty common. Sometimes you'll get a bi amped 450 or so, which is like 900 bridged. But yeah, the ratio I've seen is that 400 bass watts=100 guitar watts... So in a lot of loud bands today using a lot of guitar watts, the bassist needs alot times four. Mike Kroeger from Nickelback has... thousands and thousands of watts... But that is a case for the extreme.
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Old 12-19-2003, 12:03 AM   #22
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DON'T FALL FOR IT
THE MORE WATTAGE IS PROBABLY NESSESARY FOR BASS AMPS. I'VE HEARD AND USED AMPS W/ 50, 100, 200 WATTS AND WOULD RUIN YOUR HEARING. STICK WITH A 100WATT TUBE AND 4X12 CAB WITH SOME GOOD SPEAKERS AND YOU'LL BE FINE. CHRIST BE W/ YOU
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