re: #299 Jebediah, RBG

A lot of the time, if I am not going through headphones, I use the power cut switch to drop it to .1 watt. My Silvertone is around 22 or so watts and if I ever turned that up here, pretty sure I would get evicted. It’s kind of crazy to me that a single watt can make so much sound. Doesn’t take all that many watts to get to where you feel it as well as hear it.
J Mascis plays with 3 hundred-watt stacks a few feet behind him (with a fender combo similarly close and pointed directly at his face. And he wears earplugs… he said he likes to feel the sound. 300+ watts must rattle his bones pretty good!

He’s nuts. :)

I use a 35 watt Two Rock amp most of the time, and that one will hurt you if you lean on it too hard.

The closest I ever got to using that level of power was two 50w Marshalls with 1 4x12” cabinet each. And that was crazy loud.