Today I found out that my amp sounds very good when it's turned up all the way. It's also about 40 times louder than my friend Ben's Fender Deluxe Reverb. Which, to be fair, doesn't have a drive channel or a boost switch like my Traynor does.
We decided to go on campus, plug in to some outlets in the student commons area, and turn up all the way right at 1 PM, since that was a transition time between exams. We loaded up and went out there. Very few students were around, which was disappointing. We set up right in front of the bell tower and waited for it to chime. I remember a professor telling me that it rang on a G#, so we planned on hitting a big G# chord with it.
The bell rang. I hit the chord and could not believe how loud it was. We're talking LOUD. It sounded like it filled up the room nicely, except the room was ground and trees and sky and buildings. Meanwhile, Ben was trying to play some AC/DC and I couldn't hear his amp at all, which was turned up to 10 and about 6 feet from me. I thrashed on an open E chord, did some pick scrapes and some more noisy stuff, and then I see this lady run out of one of the buildings and start yelling at Ben. I chickened out and turned the amp off instead of what I should have done which was keep on rockin' in the free world. There's no way she would have been able to yell at us then.
Anyway, she informed us that the exam she was giving lasted until 2 and she couldn't hear her students' speeches inside the building BECAUSE MY AMP WAS SO LOUD. She didn't even tell us to stop; she just told us to wait an hour. Then she left and people we started to know wandered over. Zander said he heard me very clearly from the far end of a parking lot which was about 150 yards away with 2 buildings in between.
I don't know why I do stuff like this. Except in this situation, I really wanted to know what my amp sounded like at full volume. The next thing we're planning is a series of rooftop concerts with the Guns of Brentwood, and perhaps a special appearance in a dorm lobby.
We decided to go on campus, plug in to some outlets in the student commons area, and turn up all the way right at 1 PM, since that was a transition time between exams. We loaded up and went out there. Very few students were around, which was disappointing. We set up right in front of the bell tower and waited for it to chime. I remember a professor telling me that it rang on a G#, so we planned on hitting a big G# chord with it.
The bell rang. I hit the chord and could not believe how loud it was. We're talking LOUD. It sounded like it filled up the room nicely, except the room was ground and trees and sky and buildings. Meanwhile, Ben was trying to play some AC/DC and I couldn't hear his amp at all, which was turned up to 10 and about 6 feet from me. I thrashed on an open E chord, did some pick scrapes and some more noisy stuff, and then I see this lady run out of one of the buildings and start yelling at Ben. I chickened out and turned the amp off instead of what I should have done which was keep on rockin' in the free world. There's no way she would have been able to yell at us then.
Anyway, she informed us that the exam she was giving lasted until 2 and she couldn't hear her students' speeches inside the building BECAUSE MY AMP WAS SO LOUD. She didn't even tell us to stop; she just told us to wait an hour. Then she left and people we started to know wandered over. Zander said he heard me very clearly from the far end of a parking lot which was about 150 yards away with 2 buildings in between.
I don't know why I do stuff like this. Except in this situation, I really wanted to know what my amp sounded like at full volume. The next thing we're planning is a series of rooftop concerts with the Guns of Brentwood, and perhaps a special appearance in a dorm lobby.
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posted by Brandon at 3:06 AM
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