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Originally Posted by Ricky D.
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Old school, Durtdog. Back in the day, most of the bands in town had 3/4/5 piece horn sections, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums. The twin reverb was the standard amp that just about everybody used. Nobody complained about the weight, just put casters on it. And for mid/late 60's soul and top 40, clean was it. Maybe singers in front.
Mikes were for the vocals, period. Maybe mike a horn solo. The mid-size Fenderslike Super Reverb and Bandmaster were just barely strong enough. A DR would never cut it there. But that was then and this is now...
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Depends upon what you are doing. I've been using DRs with JBLs since the mid 1980s, and often worked rockabilly, blues and country bands unmic'ed. At least in those settings it was just dandy.
You are correct that the TR was THE standard for many years, and many players felt it was a necessary amount of power. It was one of my first amps, too, and
they sound great. However, in the 3 and 4 piece bands I was doing it just felt too big - I wanted a bit of dirt (not much) and so went down the wattage scale until I landed upon the DR.
IMHO the speakers are a bigger factor than wattage in many settings. Jensens and the like just could not compete with the efficiency of an EVM or JBL when trying to get the most oomph from a small amp.