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Post by Adman103 on Mar 1, 2010 15:33:36 GMT -7
Hi all! I haven't found this question posted anywhere else, so if it is, my apologies... I got to play a Carmen Ghia and a Remedy this weekend... and WOW! Unlike anything I've ever played! I think I'm in love with the Remedy... but I'd probably need to sell a cherished piece of gear (a Klon, which I'm not really sure I want to sell...) to afford it over the Ghia. So my questions are as follows: How does the Remedy on 1/2 power compare to the Ghia in terms of headroom? Is the Remedy with an inefficient speaker and a brake-lite suitable for home use? The speaker is a crappy jensen mod 50, rated at about 94 db/watt meters if memory serves correct. I have a Gold that I'll put in another cab for loud playing! I don't want to go deaf, and I'll probably use the 2 different cabs with the Remedy for at home playing and at gigs, and I'll probably pick up a Brake-Lite for the amp, no matter what I get. I play mostly rock and blues, and have a few guitars- a strat, a humbuggy-equipped ibanez (to be replaced with a McCarty after I recover from the amp purchase), and a Gretsch 5120 with TV Jones classics. The Ghia was great in it's own right, but I thought I'd find out what the wise Dr. Z users on the forum thought. Any insight is very much appreciated!
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Mar 1, 2010 16:24:58 GMT -7
Remedy has lots of clean headroom if you set it up that way. Set on full power with volumes way down, it can be very clean. Check this thread - scroll down till you see the clips there. Holy cow, they sound great, especially the clean stuff.
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Post by Adman103 on Mar 1, 2010 17:42:55 GMT -7
Thanks Steve! Btw... that's a mighty pretty stack o' red you've got there!
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Post by tubestack on Mar 1, 2010 18:47:29 GMT -7
Really?
I think of clean headroom as the ability to turn the volume up with little or no overdrive/saturation happening, so I'd say the Remedy has very little clean headroom, if any.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Mar 2, 2010 7:50:12 GMT -7
Really? I think of clean headroom as the ability to turn the volume up with little or no overdrive/saturation happening, so I'd say the Remedy has very little clean headroom, if any. Depends on how loud you're wanting to play. If a Ghia has almost enough, and the Remedy has more at that volume, who cares what happens above that?
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Post by tubestack on Mar 2, 2010 17:30:58 GMT -7
Really? I think of clean headroom as the ability to turn the volume up with little or no overdrive/saturation happening, so I'd say the Remedy has very little clean headroom, if any. Depends on how loud you're wanting to play. If a Ghia has almost enough, and the Remedy has more at that volume, who cares what happens above that? Yeah, good point, when comparing only to the Gia. I was thinking "clean headroom" in general, of which I think the Remedy has very little, as it starts to break up at 10-11, at least with my guitars. But in the context of a Ghia comparison, for sure, which is what the OP was asking.
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