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ThrowBackMan
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Hey guys..
When I was growing up, everyone had to have at least a 50 watt head, or a 100 watt stack of course, and then they'd not turn them up but would use 15 pedals to get their tone.. I started out on a Fender Twin reverb as I was a huge Ted Nugent fan and he had the biggest influence on me as well as Aerosmith, and others, from the 70's and we didn't have Marshalls for sale here where I live for the most part. I would just crank that thing and it would get real hot, but it would scream with a Dimarzio Super Distortion, etc, which was great, but too much volume on stage, but there were tricks I'd use to make it work such as point it upward or sideways, and put something behind it and in front of it, etc,..
Anyway, I'm not wanting that now days, and I'm wondering how much louder is a 50 watt amp for instance instead of a 15 watt or 20 watt all tube amp? Say I have the same model and make of an amp, and one is a 15 watt combo and the other is a 50 watt combo, and both have 1 x 12 speaker cab. How much louder is the 50 watt and does it take twice as much or three times as much loudness for lack of a better word or power to get the power tube distortion we all love along with the preamp tubes, etc,?
Thanks so much in advance. I'm not the most technical with it comes to this stuff, except for digital stuff which I've worked in that field, but hate it for guitar stuff, yet it's great for computers and recording!
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When I was growing up, everyone had to have at least a 50 watt head, or a 100 watt stack of course, and then they'd not turn them up but would use 15 pedals to get their tone.. I started out on a Fender Twin reverb as I was a huge Ted Nugent fan and he had the biggest influence on me as well as Aerosmith, and others, from the 70's and we didn't have Marshalls for sale here where I live for the most part. I would just crank that thing and it would get real hot, but it would scream with a Dimarzio Super Distortion, etc, which was great, but too much volume on stage, but there were tricks I'd use to make it work such as point it upward or sideways, and put something behind it and in front of it, etc,..
Anyway, I'm not wanting that now days, and I'm wondering how much louder is a 50 watt amp for instance instead of a 15 watt or 20 watt all tube amp? Say I have the same model and make of an amp, and one is a 15 watt combo and the other is a 50 watt combo, and both have 1 x 12 speaker cab. How much louder is the 50 watt and does it take twice as much or three times as much loudness for lack of a better word or power to get the power tube distortion we all love along with the preamp tubes, etc,?
Thanks so much in advance. I'm not the most technical with it comes to this stuff, except for digital stuff which I've worked in that field, but hate it for guitar stuff, yet it's great for computers and recording!

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