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Originally Posted by Matata
I've always been bewildered by guitarists buying 100 watt amps. 100 watt amps were originally built by Marshall for Pete Townsend because the PA's in that day and age were insufficient to amplify his guitar tone for the arenas that The Who played.
100 watt amps look great on stage, but with modern PA's they have absolutely no practical use. Plus you'd mostly end up playing the amp on 1-2 and would never push the tubes hard, imagine owning a ferrari and only driving it in 1st gear around the block. Sound guys hate guitarists that insist on having a loud amp on stage, it completely ruins the mix.
Traynor makes a decent amp, but if you were to spend the same money on a 15-30 watt boutique amp (Bad Cat, Orange, Matchless, etc.), you would get vastly superior tone, sound guys would love you and bandmates would call off the hit man.
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Also I dont know what Orange amp you are talking about... but I play with a hard hitting drummer, and I am pretty sure the 15W Tiny Terror isnt going to be heard...