PP and 4 twins!!!!

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 14 Jul 2006 10:56 am

I am playing a fair Sat. I was told I would have 4 twins available, I am going to stack them 2 on each side and plug them all in. Pictures to come I hope. I can't wait.

Larry Behm

James Quackenbush · Post by **James Quackenbush** » 14 Jul 2006 11:23 am

Larry,
Now that's what I'm talkin about !!!!.....
Are you playing with the Grateful Dead ?
Sincerely, Jim

Ken Fox · Post by **Ken Fox** » 14 Jul 2006 11:35 am

Should be a killer tone. Do not forget to try and eliminate the ground loop hum! It will be awful with 4 amps chained together and single coil pickups!!!

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 14 Jul 2006 12:50 pm

If you turn them up past 7, and stand in front of them when you play, you'll be sterile for the next 24-72 hours.
Woo hoo!
Twins are killer amps.
-andy-

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 14 Jul 2006 2:13 pm

Bring a fuzz-tone, the twins have a wonderful grind.

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 14 Jul 2006 6:00 pm

The bass player plays through a 1,000 watt amp head and an Ampeg box with 8 10's. This will less than 400 watts and 8 12's. They think the steel is to loud with just one Webb, this ought to knock em out.

Larry

Lynn Stafford · Post by **Lynn Stafford** » 14 Jul 2006 6:05 pm

Sounds like twin power towers...COOL!!

Have fun Larry!

Lynn

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 14 Jul 2006 6:25 pm

I plugged into 3 or 4 Nashville 400's some years ago, expecting a really big sound, but; it was actually less of a sound and I just unplugged and returned to my own (2)-Amps. I don't know what I might have done wrong, but; it was disappointing to me!
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Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 14 Jul 2006 7:36 pm

Big John - maybe the speakers weren't all wired in the same phase relationship with each other. If some of them are out of phase, they will work against each other and the whole thing will sound very thin. The key is that all speakers must be wired with the same polarity. I have often run more than one amp - if the speaker phases are not correct, it is really noticable.

Most speakers have + and - phase indicators on the terminals, but not always, and I've seen some labeled incorrectly. One can check the speaker phase by quickly touching a low voltage battery terminals (I like a weak 9-volt) against the speaker terminals. If the positive battery terminal is hooked up to the positive speaker terminal, the speaker should push out. Just do it long enough to see how it moves.

I used to see Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer play together fairly often back in the early 70s - usually the Boston Tea Party on Landsdowne St. across from Fenway Park in Boston. They generally each had a pyramid of 3 blackface Twin Reverbs - 1 on top of 2. Believe me, they were plenty loud, those things were cranked.

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 14 Jul 2006 8:59 pm

I saw Marty Stuart use the same configuration of SF (MV) Twins.

What a sound!

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 15 Jul 2006 5:11 am

Wow I'd love to hear that! Have fun Larry.

Rick

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 15 Jul 2006 7:45 am

to paraphrase BIll Kirchen:

that there's a set of TEXAS HEADPHONES!!

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 15 Jul 2006 9:43 am

Dave now we are talking, we may not be able to hear much anymore but we can at least move our lips. OOOOOh OOOOOOh

Larry

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 15 Jul 2006 9:45 am

Dave, now you're talking.

Larry

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 15 Jul 2006 10:31 pm

Well it did not work out as planned, we went on an hour late, played to 20 people and the stage was very small. Maybe next time, nice thought though.

Larry Behm

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 16 Jul 2006 2:57 am

I just listened to Johhny Winter And,
about 4-5 times while driving 2000 km
to Malaysia and back this week.

Long, long drive,
but I'm Still Alive And Well...

I was wondering which amps he used,
but I suspected Twins.
I saw them back when,
but had forgotten the pyramids.

One of my favorite bands from that era.
JW just cranked! and Derringer got in his licks too.