How Many Watts

Questions and Answers

From tremolu--(at)--ol.com Sat Feb 11 18:32:35 CST 1995
From: tremolu--(at)--ol.com (Tremolux)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: 40 Watts...enough for small clubs??
Date: 11 Feb 1995 19:18:44 -0500
Sender: roo--(at)--ewsbf02.news.aol.com
Reply-To: tremolu--(at)--ol.com (Tremolux)

First off, a Blues Deluxe, despite Fender's rating, will not put out 40
clean watts. It will put out 40 watts, but at a very high level of
distortion. Those amps put out about 30 clean watts.

Will it be loud enough for a small club?? Probably, unless you want a
real clean tone, in which case you should have gotten the DeVille, which
is about 40 clean watts.

I commonly use 40 to 50 watt amps at small clubs, and they're plenty.
Even my Deluxe Reverb that I've measured at 25 clean watts, is loud enough
for a SMALL club.

Regards.

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