Jeff McErlain - How Many Watts Does My Amp Need To Be?

[@fivewattworld]

Morning Jeff, Love your channel. Dig your playing. I think you have a typo in your title, I think you meant to say, "How many watts does MY amp have to be?" but it reads "How many watts does MAY amp have to be?" Love the subject, great video and very timely. Right "up my street" as the Brits might say.

[@JeffMcErlain]

Ha! Thanks! I missed that, much appreciated!

[@mariuswunder7004]

Great video! I'm currently thinking about buying a fender tube amp. The one I have in mind is the 68 custom deluxe reverb with 22 watts and I'm not sure if that's good enough... I'm playing in an indie band and we do gigs that are small to medium clubsized. Sometimes open air. Thoughts? :[

[@castleanthrax1833]

Yeah, it's one of those questions that can't be answered without a lot more clarification. Thankfully the answer is "more than just one", because life would suck if we needed just one amp. ✌️🇦🇺

[@magnethomewood]

Very informative, thank you :)

[@robert_starling]

No mention of power soaks / attenuators. Also, how are you using your UA OX?

[@JeffMcErlain]

Don’t use them on gigs. We don’t care from them I only use the ox for silent recording.

[@zachshoher1200]

Cool. Helped line up how to look at this. 30-40W; better speakers; 1x12 / 2x12. Perspective on Katana Ii 50?

[@JeffMcErlain]

Zach Shoher oh cool! Glad it helped! I think the Katana is a great amp. I have a 1x12 50 watt as well!

[@7171jay]

Good info until you get to speakers. Wattage handling and efficiency (sensitivity) is not connected as you imply The Celestian Blue is only a 15W speaker bit it has a sensitivity of 100db (1w at 1 meter) while the Celestion 25W Greenback has a sensitivity of only 98db. The Celestion Classic Lead 80 which is 80W has a sensitivity of only 99db. A speaker like the Jensen P12R (25W rating) is a lot less efficient than a Celestion Blue (15W) mostly because ithe P12R has a one inch voice coil compared to all the Celestions that have one and three quarter inch voice coils.

[@JeffMcErlain]

Ok

[@MiguelGutierrez-dx9eu]

Man, that was a great video!, thanks a lot. Could you please tell me if a fender hot rod deluxe (40 watt) could sound nice if used as a pedal platform, so that i could get the tones i want out if my pedals and basicly just turn the Master up? Thanks

[@JeffMcErlain]

Miguel Gutierrez Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the hot rod is an excellent pedal platform. I use that on the road sometimes for the very reason you are asking.