But a little guitar. HaHa!

I decided just to plug it into my PA system and It Sounds AMAZING! I'm running Direct in to a Yorkville M1610 1600 watt 10 channel Powered Mixer. It has a built in pre amp on channels 5 and 6 that is made for acoustic or electric instruments that need a little oomph! It works great for steel. The mixer has excelent effects and it pushes 4 15's and 2 12's with ease in full rich stereo @ 800 watts a side. A CAVS 203 Karaoke Player sits in the bottom of the rack and serves as my back up band along with 3500 songs on Karaoke CD+G's.

Now only if I knew how to play steel, I'd be a portable PSG Concert!

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Tele-Bender-Blaster-Caster
Line 6 Amps
www.jimwalkeronline.com
Steelin' Again Too!

[This message was edited by Jim Walker on 17 January 2006 at 04:16 PM.]

Nice amp... I'm glad I don't have to carry one like it to my gigs. My Nashville 1000 is heavy enough!

54,000 watts (RMS) of custom amplifiers from Tycobrahe Sound Company.

[This message was edited by Bob Knight on 17 January 2006 at 05:25 PM.]

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Tele-Bender-Blaster-Caster
Line 6 Amps
www.jimwalkeronline.com
Steelin' Again Too!

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Darvin Willhoite
Riva Ridge Recording

My neighbor Don actualy saw Jerry play steel
through this last picture of a speaker stack!

Thankfully we can now play through smaller systems and get better sound.

We play though this system regularly,
and own a smaller version for up to 1000 seat venues.
Empad, is compact and VERY clean. 140 db at 10 meters from basic system.

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 18 January 2006 at 04:29 AM.]

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140 db at 10 meters from basic system.

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No way do we run at 140db for shows...
Just because it CAN, doesn't mean to do it!
But you always want head room.
The systems without it blow up a lot and distort earlier,
and give the audience head aches.

If you got MORE head room than you need,
for those occasional and unexpected bad peaks,
but run it at a reasonable level, you get a great sound.

I gotta tell ya, 35,000 watts sure can sound good,
never a HINT of grunge, that you didn't add from the stage.

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 20 January 2006 at 02:35 AM.]

Jon, you beat me to it. I was looking for a photo of Jerry like that in front of the "Wall". I had a great talk with Dan Healy back in the late '80s about what the wall sounded like. I was only 8 years old when the Wall was alive, so I missed it. He said it was a truly amazing experience when each instrument had it's own cluster of Macintosh driven JBL's. But he did say that the modern Meyer systems just blew it away, and the good gear of today, properly run, is in his opinion a much better sound overall, especially when covering a large audience. But I could tell there was a real soft spot with him as he reminisced about the sound of the Wall.

I think it was cool how after the Wall of Sound was retired, Jerry kept a miniature chunk of it for his guitar rig. I've always been a HUGE fan of Jerry's amp rig after the Wall. He used a cleaned up Fender Twin for a preamp which then drove a 600 watt Macintosh transistor power amp into a sealed back cabinet (or two) of JBL 12" speakers. He kept that rig until the end. Even when the Dead went direct in-ear with no speakers on stage, Jerry kept using that rig with the JGB. It was really the perfect steel guitar rig, although he just used it for 6-string guitar. Greatest "clean" guitar rig in history, IMHO. I spent many, many hours right in front of that rig, and I'm here to tell you, it was sweeeeeeeet!

Brad

[This message was edited by Brad Sarno on 20 January 2006 at 07:05 AM.]