Might aswell link my band while I'm here I promise we don't play through a cranked katana sitting in my parents yard th-cam.com/video/L8Uck8HaJ5A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=RDaesyGV_bzThSdF
Reminds me of the first time I got it in my head to crank my very first "real" amp setup as loud as it would go. A Peavey 5150 with a Marshall 1960B 4x12. Rolled the halfstack into the garage, opened the garage door, and walked down to the end of my driveway lol. I had a shure wireless setup I bought from a friend, so that made it a lot easier. So damn loud. I just hit an E and a G chord and was like k I need to go turn this off so no one calls the cops lol.
Yeah, I feel that memory. In 1994...I took my original 5150 halfstack out in the back yard, pointed it at the mountain and set it to like 6....shook the neighbor's house. That Resonance dial was amazing.
I remember when I was very young (maybe 6 or 7) I received my first guitar and amp as a hand me down from my sister. It was only a 60W app but one day I got the idea of turning it up to max, as I would usually only have it on level 1 and it would still be loud. I can remember it so clearly, my whole body and room filled up with intense vibrations and I was terrified hahah, I ran to my parents crying and told them what happened and my Dad said "you'll never be a rockstar at that rate dude!"
The moment you go full volume on your amp will change your life forever, you don't even know what you will open with it, you will hear more and feel more
That may be true with a tube amp but a solid state amp like the Katana will have the same tone at a low volume as it does at a high volume. It will just be louder. And even a tube amp will have a sweet spot that usually ain’t all the way up. Any perceived change in tone on a solid state amp is all in your head.
Meh that sounds like wishy washy sentiments from a bygone era. You can get fucking great tones at normal volumes now days. Between profiling and modeling amps, there's not much else you need. Profiling on TH-U is so God damn satisfying that I barely use my Axe FX 2 now days. Sold my tube amps too.
Lucky SOB, I have a single 20 W amp and all the cops know me too... but they're friendly, one played guitar herself and had me play a while so we could figure out what volume my apartment was able to contain (surprisingly much)...
Ah yes, the old "play me something" riffage. You are now "on the spot", "in the light", and all that sort of thing. You can't remember anything but random power chords and perhaps 1 really bendy pinch harmonic that will.....not......pinch.
Worst feeling ever. Makes you look 10 times worse than you actually are, the best you can do is have something prepared for these sort of moments. It Happens so often you gotta have some impressive songs or riffs up your sleeve all the time.
You give me an electric with heavy gain and I'm not worried... it's clean tones and acoustics that get me. My "old reliable" is "Plush" and the mid soft part of "to live is to die".
I was in the studio using a 1966 Fender Super for an hour or so and my wife dropped by to visit. She walked in the play room and wanted to hear what i was doing. I had headphones on to protect myself just as much as hear the track so I hit an A at full wide open. She left
@@peterpetruzzi yep it belonged to the studio and the engineer suggested it for the lead on a particular tune where I used my solid tail strat. He was right, and that amp was crazy clean and loud. It had fresh tubes and caps too so was dead quiet at idle. Ah the god old days. Great for recording, too loud for stage work.
@@maxbialystock254 Yeah there's no wondering if the super reverb will cut through a mix. Must've been very sweet sounding. I have a 5 watt 1966 Vibrochamp, and she's more than enough for me!
My main amp is a 1970 super reverb, I have gone up to 7 with ear protection and nobody home, and I feel even indoors with noisey neighbors I was still gonna get the cops called lol.
I'll never forget the day I dragged my JCM 800 half stack to my mechanics workshop. He gave me the permission to try it out there cranked. After a while a crowd had gathered. We were in an industrial zone. That's how loud the thing was. Undescribable feeling. My hands were shaking. Glorious!
We had been once in our band-room in the cellar of a industrial building and cranked up (with ear-protection) a 100 Watt Marshall. The lad in the office 3 floors above came down and said: "Ok folks, as you make any job impossible in my office I'll have a beer on you". Well... we had a nice evening, but never again cranked a 100 Watt Amp full up.
The first day I got my Katana 50, I accidentally put it on the most distorted setting while on 50W and the loudest shriek came out of it. Taught me early to be careful with the settings on an amp. As a musician with tinnitus I know the power and damage those things are capable of.
I'm sure a lot of people never get to turn their amps up much past half way at most! I use low watt amps because I like to push them more. Must have been fun though. 💪👍
I have a katana 50 mk2 and think i made a bad decision. Only using 0.5 watt setting and master volume knob is at quarter, and main volume half is quite loud lol. Too scared to crank it
@@Tennyson_W05 that‘s all you need for bedroom sessions. But it‘s good to know you have the capability to play live as well. Also, 50 watts isn't even that much louder than 0.5 watts, it gets exponentially less loud the more watts you have.
I had a Peavey Rockmaster into a Peavey Classic 60/60 with a 4X12 with 75 watt Celestions. This was back in the mid 90s. There was a kid who brought his little foreign car to visit the neighbor girl and he'd park in front of her house with the car running and the loud ass base from the car's loud ass stereo thumping. One day I set the 4X12 in my front doorway and pointed it at his car. Cranked it up and started whaling. Within a couple minutes, mission accomplished.
I set my Peavey Rockmaster w JSX 4x12 (Early 80's Rockmaster head, not the same as your pre) on my back porch after my neighbors were still playing oompa loompa music loudly @ 1AM (Quincinera, but just the very drunk adults left). Played some Sleep riffs for like two minutes. They countered with Crazy Train for 30 seconds then shut it down. Mission accomplished.
I play about a 1/4 of the way up at practices and my drummer usually complains that’s it’s too loud. I would love to go somewhere at crank it to just half make power just to see how loud it goes. I love my Katana.
If you live close to a cornfield, when it's at full height, you can point a loud enough amp at the corn and hit a chord, and when the sound hits the stalks, it'll make a rustling noise. My Friend did that with his half-stack (I think it was a Crate Blue Voodoo). He took it out onto his front porch. We were probably at least 150 yards away, and when the sound hit the corn it went - *Shhhhhh (Maybe it was telling us to turn it down 😂)
I did this with my Marshall Lead 100 Head....2 -4/12 cabinet..... many times Never nothing said I was in the house with the windows and doors open.....my brother said he could hear it plain in town 2 miles away....😎 KEEP rocking.... I am 58 and still like making noise is what I call it.... I have a small Epiphone amp...but I do have good F/X....😎 I am still having fun.... miss the Marshall stack but it got me out of Jail.
Remember hearing about a story on a bass forum of a guy cranking 18innch speaker cabs on a unauthorized open festival somewhere out town and cops coming to tell him they could hear him from like 5 miles 😂 can't imagine a lead 100 ripping through town loud and clear hahaha As Yngwie Malmsteen put in a sticker on his guitar, *PLAY LOUD 😁*
There's some magic that happens when cranking an amp. Playing just becomes a whole different thing, like the amp speaks back to you with the feedbacks and vibrations. I had to swap out my Dark terror amp cause it couldn't get loud enough with our drums. Now im blasting a TH30 through a full 8x12" stack, and it just makes you feel alive.
I dimed a 120W Peavey Butcher tube head once- no tube screamer or boost, and it was barely beginning to break up, even with humbuckers. The dishes that vibrated off the shelves in the kitchen all broke up however. That thing frightened me.
My new neighbors that moved in behind my house have a wonderful barking ass dog that starts every morning around 5am. Well, I've got a 5150 and a 4X12... Maybe I should let it out at 5 am tomorrow. (this is not a joke, y'all genuinely gave me this very real idea and I'm considering it for tomorrow morning)
Barking dogs are the worst. Actually, the owners of barking dogs are the worst. Shows that they're selfish pricks that don't care about anyone else but themselves.
Haha you did it at the end? Reminds me some video here or some social media that a guy did some similar. Screaming to the neighbors "ooooh here is the sound you dont come to here telling me to shut the fuck up, your damn dog all day is barking so why I should to shut up" but all in spanish th-cam.com/video/BLFZORn6gpA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qqe3RIKD7TyE-pI_
Didn’t think it would put out that level of volume!!! I was once in a rehearsal room with two Marshall JCM 100watt Full Stacks at pretty much full tilt! Myself and my buddy were pealed off the wall at the end!!! So loud your vision starts to blur!!
Me and a late friend of mine used to do this on the regular with a 100 watt Randall and a 100 Mesa Boogie triple rec and 2 4x12 cabs on his back porch. Neighbors 3 miles away used to sit on their back porch and listen to us for hours. R.I.P. “Wild Ass” Jimmy Cash my friend..🤘😎
The 100 2 X 12 is fine to practice with a drummer at .5 watt. I have maxed mine in the studio to see if it would compete with a Marshall head maxed out through 2 4x12, it did, but the 2 Marshall Cabs hit harder, Katana is insanely loud for a combo.
@@martyshwaartz971 the 2 Marshall Cabs do sound fuller, obviously, but volume wise the Katana does the job, and sound still tight and clean, cut through the Marshall, the venue wasn't impressed, but got to try these things!
@@TheBnslayer Amp wattage is meaningless, that's the point, even attenuated right down the Katana twin is plenty loud enough, full 100W it would break windows.
whys it so hard to believe that "little box" in the distance is producing that sound? amazing! ive got a boss katana 212 100w but i never have it loud!!! thanks for showing us what its capable of.
@@pietro6227 make it louder by going into katana studio and using every possible effect to boost the level by +20db. parametric eq lets you do this. also use the SOLO feature and boost it to 100. it doesn't add gain but just makes it louder
I practice in a full band with my Kanata at about 50% volume on the .5 watt setting. Would love to crank it louder but ATM there's no need, it's never been on the full tilt setting, only once or twice on the 50 watt.
A good friend of mine had an old Chevrolet from the 80s during high school in the late 2000s. I forgot exactly what it was, but it was a huge boat with an underpowered V6. A real piece of crap. It had one great feature, however: he had built in his 4x15 bass cabinet in the trunk, hooked up to a 200w amplifier with a 12v-110v power converter to the car power. No matter who was blasting what from their car, it was nothing compared to the volume this thing put out. It was insane. He also loaded the sound effect file from the AWP from Counterstrike on his MP3 player that was hooked to it. Very easy and very funny to scare absolute shit out of anybody setting that off.
I have a mesa boogie F100 of the first run, and that thing could be heard from 2 miles away. The next night, my buddy comes with a “surprise.” It’s a marshal full stack. Needless to say, we had two beers, cranked her up to 10, and landed in the county jail for disturbing the peace. We were 26 so I don’t know if I cared all that much. The 2 minutes we got blasting out some iron maiden and metallica where some of the best 2 minutes of my life!
Got myself a Boss Katana KTN-100 Mk II, complete with the optional GA-FC foot controller and vinyl amp cover, I mostly use the sounds that come stock with it, wonderful little solid-state digital modelling amp, way better than something like a Line-6 Spider IV which has a "digital" sound to it that's hard to dial-out, I've only ever turned my Katana amp up half-way on the 50W setting and that was plenty loud enough.
I used to go out every 4th of July and Crank my Marshall combo or my Blackstar ID:60 head and Bugera 4x12. I don't know how loud it actually was just standing in front of it... But by the time I was done playing the Star-Spangled banner, you could hear the entire neighborhood screaming and clapping. 😂
I used to have Fender Champion 100 and never turned its volume to more then 4 points. Except this one time I decided it may be fun idea to do so in really small room of actually small building. Scared the shit of me, never f-ing again. I sold it because I wanted to feel free when adjusting volume of amp and it was also huge and heavy, so now I have Yamaha THR10. :D
The guitar player in a band I was in had some '60s Fender amp. A Twin Reverb or something. Anyway, I plugged my P bass into it, and it was probably the loudest thing I have ever heard. It didn't even break up. It was just pure LOUDNESS. I'm still trying to get my SVT and an 8X10 refrigerator. I imagine that'll pull a close 2nd.
I unplugged a coke machine at a grocery store that was closed and plugged in a peavey bandit with a 212 cab. I pointed it at the store and id hit one note, and it would bounce off all the buildings, and had about 5 repeats. I started jamming and it took less than two minutes for the cops to show up and say their phones were ringing off the hook and i needed to go. I had ppl telling me they could hear me from two miles away.
I connected my Vox MV50 rock to a 2x12 on a gig once, the tone guy saw it and told me to crank it, as he feared that he couldn't hear me. I cranked it to about 50%, then I couldn't hear him yelling to turn it down. Good times
I saw Ted Nugent live back in the late 70’s. I gained a super power, immunity to loud noises. Lol. Honestly, I heard some crackling and I went up the stairs an into the hall and realized the crackling was in my ear! (Just one). It was “ festival seating, for those who remember what that was and of course I was right down front. My ears rang loudly for a couple of days and finally started getting better. I didn’t want to tell my folks but I probably should have went to a doctor. My ears are ringing right now. Don’t F around with your hearing, you’ll miss it.
Marshall JCM 800, 💯W, hot-modded by Dirk Baldringer; i played with a befriended musician/drummer, we could go all up with the volume...it was a tornado of tone, almost swept me out of the rehearsal-room, an earthquake, a landslide, a wrecking-ball... never experienced this before. So loud that it generated FEAR (limbic-system) ! Thank You, Volker (R.I.P.) !
Hahahaha, nice!! Didn't know it was that loud. I have a Fender Roc Pro (actually I have 2) and I played a concert on volume 4-5 where the rest of the band went through the main sound system :D :D Full volume on that amp would probably be able to shoot planes out of the sky
I have the Katana 2x12 MKII, and yes I can concur it is very loud. Even on 2/10 volume. I've never even turned mine up to 10 just to see how loud it gets but I'm sure you can hear the thing a mile away
I love that kind of thing. I remember one night in early 1990 I put a Boss DS-1 through a 100 Watt Laney solid state head into a WEM cab! I got my friends to drive nearly 1k away and they heard it! So did the next door neighbours and I ran back in and tripped over the leads! Lol!
I remember demoing an amp about this size when I was ~16... as I was playing at a level we could still talk at, the store rep asked me if it was loud enough, I thought he meant total available power, so I dime it and blow our ears out, "Yeah, I think it's alright."
Half cranked my dads modified jcm 800 one day, played one g chord and the house shook and the lights started to flicker, never have experience something as cool as that
Try that with a 100 watt jcm800 or a plexy and see what loud is. But, that is cool nonetheless. My Marshall original 50 thru a 4x12 was stupid loud and I played in the garage with the doors closed.
The 12" speaker limits this thing so hard. If you rewire it so you can use other cabs, this thing really gets going. I now use my katana100 with a Engl 4x12, this small box fucking slaps.
Yeah my band's other guitarist happened to have the MK I head unit so I built a 2x12 cab at home to go with it for shows and use my MK II 100 combo for recording/practicing.
Did this with a Super Reverb in a rural village whilst other folk were mowing and had their stereo turned up to hear whilst mowing, but the cops still came. Being outdoors I could spot them approaching a mile away and flipped the standby switch before they traced the source of me playing along with the neighbours stereo. Think it was that french pop punk thing from the 70s, Ça plane pour moi
Loud, maybe, but bass response is nonexistent. Sounds terrible at this volume, might as well not go up this high. Still need a real PA system for actual performance.
@@zxbc1 You're judging it based on a phone microphone, which is then being compressed for TH-cam. Even without that, the settings being used could also have no bass involved.
As a guitar tech the one proven way of shutting someone up that’s complaining about fret buzz on their electric is plug em into a loud amp. They immediately get sheepish and play softer, problem solved.
My dad bought me a 1000w bass amp a while back. I have to keep the volume knob in between 0 and 1 because anything higher will start to rattle the windows
i just got the artist MKII Head and have two 4x12 ready on standby for my neighbors in my trailer park lmao. im using it mostly as a daw device but the cabs are for when the neighbors get loud so i can get loudest.
Back in the day I had an ADA pre and power amp set up. 200 watts coming out of a rewired Peavey 4x12 for stereo (2x12 Left x Right). I cranked it up once and my hearing has never been the same and that was 30 years ago😅
I did this with my amp when Fast Eddie Clarke moved in next door to me. He knocked on the door the next day and presented me with a pair of headphones 🎧
Years ago we would throw house parties in empty houses that were between occupants, i remember the going to extreme lengths to make it look like we werent partying in a vacant house having people park off the street and walk and when we turned up the amps the cops always showed up and it became a game of 30 person hide and seek.
I have the Katana Artist and it’s insanely loud if you want it to be. I only wish the noisegate could be set from the front panel, because it needs one.
I really wanna try this with my Hiwatt DR504 with the 4x12 cab. I now use it at 20% max mastervolume and still need earbuds. Guess i’m popping some windows
An old 1980s Carvin Head and a 5150. Two heads. Live when I could really push it it would move my pant legs from the air they were pushing through my 3 4x12 cabs. I miss that.
Nice 😊 I tried this with an old Marshall Super Lead - 100W all tubes, powering 2 cabs: one being a 4x12", the other with 4x15" Fane speakers. Couldn't obviously do this anywhere near anything remotely fragile (like a nuclear missile silo), so I put it in an old vault underneath a railway station. Double doors, seriously thick. Luckily I played wireless at that time, so I turned my guitar completely off, then volume on the amp to max, and closed those doors behind me. Then turned up the guitar & hit a powerchord. Building's no longer there. 🤘🤘
We're getting to the point where we're able to play small/medium size shows with combo amps and I'm all for it._ Obviously you should still if available mic the amp up to a PA. But things are getting really impressive at affordable prices.
If you are going to be blasting that, let us know how the cabinet hold up, they are very thin. Have the 60, it has not been on anything but 1/2 watt and never above 3, but since this has turned into a I remember when.... I had a Little Marshall 12 watt SS amp and some guy in the apartment above me wanted to hear it, instead of him coming down I pointed it out the window and cranked it, at like 2:00am. The super was at my door after a few minutes of 2112 all grey, I was on the fourth floor overlooking acres of houses. And as a weapon, guy is slamming doors in a shared accommodation house, my room wall has the bathroom on the other side, one day he knocked his way into there and I gave it a min and then blasted my 20watt Marshall just making noise. The walls in my room were ringing when I was done. He did not make as much noise after that.
@@Jackson-fq9lc Just random noodling honestly, but if you enjoy that type of playing maybe my band will have some similar riffs? We're called prospect of rain on Spotify n stuff
I got thrown out of the house for maxing-out my Ampeg Gemini IV in 1969...in the basement! LOL! Twenty years later, the police showed up when I maxed my Fender Twin and when they asked me what I was doing, I told them that I was practicing hymns for Sunday Mass at church...Actually I was learning Hymn 43 on the Aqualung album...they made me turn everything off. I say "Turn It Up" if your ears and brain can handle it! Cool video BTW.
This reminds me about something that happened many years ago. A friend called me from a club and wanted me to listen how well the music sounds in there. Of course on my phone it sounded like crap. It was a pointless phone call much like this video.
Might aswell link my band while I'm here
I promise we don't play through a cranked katana sitting in my parents yard
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Good stuff
Hey it might be decently loud, but it doesn't sound good haha
I did this with a Kustom 65 watt and the police showed up saying neighbors a mile away wanted to tell me I sucked
i had a Kustom with literally upholstered padding instead of standard tolex
Lmfao 🤣
Lmfao 😂
all the more reason to practice am i right? Lmao
F-ing classic
Reminds me of the first time I got it in my head to crank my very first "real" amp setup as loud as it would go. A Peavey 5150 with a Marshall 1960B 4x12. Rolled the halfstack into the garage, opened the garage door, and walked down to the end of my driveway lol. I had a shure wireless setup I bought from a friend, so that made it a lot easier. So damn loud. I just hit an E and a G chord and was like k I need to go turn this off so no one calls the cops lol.
Yeah, I feel that memory. In 1994...I took my original 5150 halfstack out in the back yard, pointed it at the mountain and set it to like 6....shook the neighbor's house. That Resonance dial was amazing.
You guys are lucky owners of a 5150.... respect
Why would you do that having neighbors?
My first rig as well but with the 1960A. Never had the balls to crank it though
I tried this with a much smaller Marshall 50W amp. It probably wasn't as loud but it sure shocked the whole apparent building. Never again
You can program crazy sounds in that katana. I had mine sounding like lasers and plan to blast it some night so neighbors think aliens are invading us
Like with software?
Can you make it sound like a guitar though?
Is that a specific patch? I'm interested!
here come the car bomb fans lmao
Waiting for the preset)
I remember when I was very young (maybe 6 or 7) I received my first guitar and amp as a hand me down from my sister. It was only a 60W app but one day I got the idea of turning it up to max, as I would usually only have it on level 1 and it would still be loud. I can remember it so clearly, my whole body and room filled up with intense vibrations and I was terrified hahah, I ran to my parents crying and told them what happened and my Dad said "you'll never be a rockstar at that rate dude!"
damm your dad kinda sucks
LMFAO YOUR DAD IS REALLY FUNNY
That was a good story. Genuinely, thank you for sharing that one. Made me laugh!
your dad sounds p cool lol
"Only a 60w" lol.
The moment you go full volume on your amp will change your life forever, you don't even know what you will open with it, you will hear more and feel more
I went full volume on my Marshall MS-2 and something inside me changed forever.
That may be true with a tube amp but a solid state amp like the Katana will have the same tone at a low volume as it does at a high volume. It will just be louder. And even a tube amp will have a sweet spot that usually ain’t all the way up. Any perceived change in tone on a solid state amp is all in your head.
That’s a long ass cable
@@deadtolove Even with the high volume itself the sound is perceived differently. See Equal-loudness contour.
Meh that sounds like wishy washy sentiments from a bygone era. You can get fucking great tones at normal volumes now days. Between profiling and modeling amps, there's not much else you need. Profiling on TH-U is so God damn satisfying that I barely use my Axe FX 2 now days. Sold my tube amps too.
Nice way to introduce your self to the neighbors love it
During my band days in the late 70's to early 80's, i had 2 100w amps in stereo and every cop in town knew me.
Lucky SOB, I have a single 20 W amp and all the cops know me too... but they're friendly, one played guitar herself and had me play a while so we could figure out what volume my apartment was able to contain (surprisingly much)...
Imagine plugging out the cable and letting it fall on the ground
THUCK
That's how you make a mushroom cloud
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i just picture PAIN, also would probably pound as loud as an m80 lol..
Ah yes, the old "play me something" riffage. You are now "on the spot", "in the light", and all that sort of thing. You can't remember anything but random power chords and perhaps 1 really bendy pinch harmonic that will.....not......pinch.
Worst feeling ever. Makes you look 10 times worse than you actually are, the best you can do is have something prepared for these sort of moments. It Happens so often you gotta have some impressive songs or riffs up your sleeve all the time.
So accurate. Which Is why I never play in music stores.
Been there done that.
You give me an electric with heavy gain and I'm not worried... it's clean tones and acoustics that get me. My "old reliable" is "Plush" and the mid soft part of "to live is to die".
Happens to me every time I try out guitars in the store.
I was in the studio using a 1966 Fender Super for an hour or so and my wife dropped by to visit. She walked in the play room and wanted to hear what i was doing. I had headphones on to protect myself just as much as hear the track so I hit an A at full wide open. She left
Super as in Super Reverb? My buddy went from a deluxe reverb to a Super Reverb and holy shit they are LOUD!!!
@@peterpetruzzi yep it belonged to the studio and the engineer suggested it for the lead on a particular tune where I used my solid tail strat. He was right, and that amp was crazy clean and loud. It had fresh tubes and caps too so was dead quiet at idle. Ah the god old days. Great for recording, too loud for stage work.
@@maxbialystock254 Yeah there's no wondering if the super reverb will cut through a mix. Must've been very sweet sounding. I have a 5 watt 1966 Vibrochamp, and she's more than enough for me!
My main amp is a 1970 super reverb, I have gone up to 7 with ear protection and nobody home, and I feel even indoors with noisey neighbors I was still gonna get the cops called lol.
@@TheZguitarboy67 Ear protection. I wish somebody would have mentioned that in the 80s. Oh well sometimes it;s good not to hear the wife call.
"Are the marines blowing up that island again?" "No, thats Pierce on the other side of the Intercoastal."
I'll never forget the day I dragged my JCM 800 half stack to my mechanics workshop. He gave me the permission to try it out there cranked.
After a while a crowd had gathered. We were in an industrial zone. That's how loud the thing was. Undescribable feeling. My hands were shaking. Glorious!
Hell yeah.
@@MrD3000 Had the JCM 900 Hi Gain Head and a Randall 4x12 stack in the 90s. it was LOUD
@@LeslieDugger those full power tube heads are loud enough to make your teeth hurt.
We had been once in our band-room in the cellar of a industrial building and cranked up (with ear-protection) a 100 Watt Marshall. The lad in the office 3 floors above came down and said: "Ok folks, as you make any job impossible in my office I'll have a beer on you".
Well... we had a nice evening, but never again cranked a 100 Watt Amp full up.
The first day I got my Katana 50, I accidentally put it on the most distorted setting while on 50W and the loudest shriek came out of it. Taught me early to be careful with the settings on an amp. As a musician with tinnitus I know the power and damage those things are capable of.
Jesus I just did that
I'm sure a lot of people never get to turn their amps up much past half way at most! I use low watt amps because I like to push them more. Must have been fun though. 💪👍
This is what I was thinking. I have a Vox AC4 that sounds glorious with both the gain and master dimed. And no one dies.
@@stuminnis4050 Agreed. I love my vox ac4 tv. And am glad it's got an attenuater on it down to 1/10 watt I think it is. Great with a big muff.
I have a katana 50 mk2 and think i made a bad decision. Only using 0.5 watt setting and master volume knob is at quarter, and main volume half is quite loud lol. Too scared to crank it
@@Tennyson_W05 that‘s all you need for bedroom sessions. But it‘s good to know you have the capability to play live as well. Also, 50 watts isn't even that much louder than 0.5 watts, it gets exponentially less loud the more watts you have.
True story, I have a fender twin reverb and have never dared to go past 4, I fear it
I had a Peavey Rockmaster into a Peavey Classic 60/60 with a 4X12 with 75 watt Celestions. This was back in the mid 90s. There was a kid who brought his little foreign car to visit the neighbor girl and he'd park in front of her house with the car running and the loud ass base from the car's loud ass stereo thumping. One day I set the 4X12 in my front doorway and pointed it at his car. Cranked it up and started whaling. Within a couple minutes, mission accomplished.
That's the way haha
You, sir, are a hero!
Did y0u use a harp00n when y0u started whaling?
I set my Peavey Rockmaster w JSX 4x12 (Early 80's Rockmaster head, not the same as your pre) on my back porch after my neighbors were still playing oompa loompa music loudly @ 1AM (Quincinera, but just the very drunk adults left). Played some Sleep riffs for like two minutes. They countered with Crazy Train for 30 seconds then shut it down. Mission accomplished.
I play about a 1/4 of the way up at practices and my drummer usually complains that’s it’s too loud. I would love to go somewhere at crank it to just half make power just to see how loud it goes. I love my Katana.
go into the woods and rock out for the rocks
@@polterheist77 lol for sure
Ur drummer is a wuss
If you live close to a cornfield, when it's at full height, you can point a loud enough amp at the corn and hit a chord, and when the sound hits the stalks, it'll make a rustling noise.
My Friend did that with his half-stack (I think it was a Crate Blue Voodoo). He took it out onto his front porch. We were probably at least 150 yards away, and when the sound hit the corn it went - *Shhhhhh (Maybe it was telling us to turn it down 😂)
New aim in life: find a huge amp, cornfield and a way to power it up there
@@Amorous578 Haha! We live in a small town in Indiana, where we're surrounded by cornfields. That's about all we've got for scenery around here.
I bet they were all ears, though! I’ll show myself out.
@@horaciohernandez598 🤣
I did this with my Marshall Lead 100 Head....2 -4/12 cabinet..... many times
Never nothing said I was in the house with the windows and doors open.....my brother said he could hear it plain in town 2 miles away....😎 KEEP rocking.... I am 58 and still like making noise is what I call it.... I have a small Epiphone amp...but I do have good F/X....😎 I am still having fun.... miss the Marshall stack but it got me out of Jail.
Remember hearing about a story on a bass forum of a guy cranking 18innch speaker cabs on a unauthorized open festival somewhere out town and cops coming to tell him they could hear him from like 5 miles 😂 can't imagine a lead 100 ripping through town loud and clear hahaha
As Yngwie Malmsteen put in a sticker on his guitar, *PLAY LOUD 😁*
There's some magic that happens when cranking an amp. Playing just becomes a whole different thing, like the amp speaks back to you with the feedbacks and vibrations.
I had to swap out my Dark terror amp cause it couldn't get loud enough with our drums. Now im blasting a TH30 through a full 8x12" stack, and it just makes you feel alive.
I dimed a 120W Peavey Butcher tube head once- no tube screamer or boost, and it was barely beginning to break up, even with humbuckers. The dishes that vibrated off the shelves in the kitchen all broke up however. That thing frightened me.
My new neighbors that moved in behind my house have a wonderful barking ass dog that starts every morning around 5am. Well, I've got a 5150 and a 4X12... Maybe I should let it out at 5 am tomorrow. (this is not a joke, y'all genuinely gave me this very real idea and I'm considering it for tomorrow morning)
Dude! I’m dealing with the same issue! Everyday an hour before my alarm and throughout the day. Did you do it?
Barking dogs are the worst. Actually, the owners of barking dogs are the worst. Shows that they're selfish pricks that don't care about anyone else but themselves.
Haha you did it at the end? Reminds me some video here or some social media that a guy did some similar. Screaming to the neighbors "ooooh here is the sound you dont come to here telling me to shut the fuck up, your damn dog all day is barking so why I should to shut up" but all in spanish
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Light it up bro!!! 🤘😎
Didn’t think it would put out that level of volume!!! I was once in a rehearsal room with two Marshall JCM 100watt Full Stacks at pretty much full tilt! Myself and my buddy were pealed off the wall at the end!!! So loud your vision starts to blur!!
Me and a late friend of mine used to do this on the regular with a 100 watt Randall and a 100 Mesa Boogie triple rec and 2 4x12 cabs on his back porch. Neighbors 3 miles away used to sit on their back porch and listen to us for hours. R.I.P. “Wild Ass” Jimmy Cash my friend..🤘😎
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The 100 2 X 12 is fine to practice with a drummer at .5 watt. I have maxed mine in the studio to see if it would compete with a Marshall head maxed out through 2 4x12, it did, but the 2 Marshall Cabs hit harder, Katana is insanely loud for a combo.
It can compete with 2 4x12s? That's really impressive.
@@martyshwaartz971 the 2 Marshall Cabs do sound fuller, obviously, but volume wise the Katana does the job, and sound still tight and clean, cut through the Marshall, the venue wasn't impressed, but got to try these things!
Hahaahha,with drummer on 5w????
What is wrong whit your drummer!???
@@TheBnslayer Amp wattage is meaningless, that's the point, even attenuated right down the Katana twin is plenty loud enough, full 100W it would break windows.
@@TheBnslayer He actually said 0.5 watts.
whys it so hard to believe that "little box" in the distance is producing that sound? amazing! ive got a boss katana 212 100w but i never have it loud!!! thanks for showing us what its capable of.
It's crazy how loud yet clear them things are
That's cranked? Both the volume and the master? It's loud as hell
All cranked, with a cranked Revv G3 in front aswell !
@@pietro6227 make it louder by going into katana studio and using every possible effect to boost the level by +20db. parametric eq lets you do this. also use the SOLO feature and boost it to 100. it doesn't add gain but just makes it louder
I practice in a full band with my Kanata at about 50% volume on the .5 watt setting. Would love to crank it louder but ATM there's no need, it's never been on the full tilt setting, only once or twice on the 50 watt.
A good friend of mine had an old Chevrolet from the 80s during high school in the late 2000s. I forgot exactly what it was, but it was a huge boat with an underpowered V6. A real piece of crap. It had one great feature, however: he had built in his 4x15 bass cabinet in the trunk, hooked up to a 200w amplifier with a 12v-110v power converter to the car power. No matter who was blasting what from their car, it was nothing compared to the volume this thing put out. It was insane. He also loaded the sound effect file from the AWP from Counterstrike on his MP3 player that was hooked to it. Very easy and very funny to scare absolute shit out of anybody setting that off.
Sounds like Seth to me. Friend of mine. Hahaha
@u friend’s name is Matt. I’m happy to read that there are more people out there in this world, lol.
Cops show up.
"Sir...I'm going to need you to get a real amp."
Lol
All of a sudden I miss playing outdoor gigs
I have a mesa boogie F100 of the first run, and that thing could be heard from 2 miles away. The next night, my buddy comes with a “surprise.” It’s a marshal full stack. Needless to say, we had two beers, cranked her up to 10, and landed in the county jail for disturbing the peace. We were 26 so I don’t know if I cared all that much. The 2 minutes we got blasting out some iron maiden and metallica where some of the best 2 minutes of my life!
Sounds sweet.
Guitar amplifiers are always way louder than everybody thinks.
Got myself a Boss Katana KTN-100 Mk II, complete with the optional GA-FC foot controller and vinyl amp cover, I mostly use the sounds that come stock with it, wonderful little solid-state digital modelling amp, way better than something like a Line-6 Spider IV which has a "digital" sound to it that's hard to dial-out, I've only ever turned my Katana amp up half-way on the 50W setting and that was plenty loud enough.
Reminds me of the time I fixed a buddies Marshall 100w amp. We domed it out in the back yard and it echoed through the woods. Insane volume
0:30 that riff is insane
It's from Beartooth - One More !
ok thanks!
@Pierce I knew it as soon as I heard it
Isn't it wonderwall?
La balada del diablo y la muerte - la renga. Thank me later
I used to go out every 4th of July and Crank my Marshall combo or my Blackstar ID:60 head and Bugera 4x12. I don't know how loud it actually was just standing in front of it... But by the time I was done playing the Star-Spangled banner, you could hear the entire neighborhood screaming and clapping. 😂
Neighbors must love this guy
I used to have Fender Champion 100 and never turned its volume to more then 4 points.
Except this one time I decided it may be fun idea to do so in really small room of actually small building. Scared the shit of me, never f-ing again.
I sold it because I wanted to feel free when adjusting volume of amp and it was also huge and heavy, so now I have Yamaha THR10. :D
The guitar player in a band I was in had some '60s Fender amp. A Twin Reverb or something. Anyway, I plugged my P bass into it, and it was probably the loudest thing I have ever heard. It didn't even break up. It was just pure LOUDNESS. I'm still trying to get my SVT and an 8X10 refrigerator. I imagine that'll pull a close 2nd.
I unplugged a coke machine at a grocery store that was closed and plugged in a peavey bandit with a 212 cab. I pointed it at the store and id hit one note, and it would bounce off all the buildings, and had about 5 repeats. I started jamming and it took less than two minutes for the cops to show up and say their phones were ringing off the hook and i needed to go. I had ppl telling me they could hear me from two miles away.
I connected my Vox MV50 rock to a 2x12 on a gig once, the tone guy saw it and told me to crank it, as he feared that he couldn't hear me.
I cranked it to about 50%, then I couldn't hear him yelling to turn it down.
Good times
I saw Ted Nugent live back in the late 70’s. I gained a super power, immunity to loud noises. Lol. Honestly, I heard some crackling and I went up the stairs an into the hall and realized the crackling was in my ear! (Just one). It was “ festival seating, for those who remember what that was and of course I was right down front. My ears rang loudly for a couple of days and finally started getting better. I didn’t want to tell my folks but I probably should have went to a doctor. My ears are ringing right now. Don’t F around with your hearing, you’ll miss it.
I don't get it how people play Marshall amps with 4x12 cabinets at home.
This is the problem with this generation
I have a dsl 100 hr inside and enjoy it at 2 volume as much as dimed. My katana is on back porch and is just the 50. I crank it most of the summer.
Right?? They must live in the countryside or something.
most expensive amps have good master volumes.
It's fine with an attenuator. I have a 120W lamp head into a 4x12 Mashall but through a Bugera PS1 power soak. It's ok for 9m².
ive got a 100watt randall and cabinet my friend has 300 something acres of farm land. and this video just gave me an idea lmao
please share it here if you film it
@@pietro6227will do probably gonna make a short on here and tiktok whenever i do.
I did this with my 0.1 watt battery amp with a 2 inch speaker and the Karen next door called the cops for disturbing her soap opera.
Not gonna lie, I would buy actually loud amp and point it on her rooms wall. Just to let her know what is real loudness. :D
Fuck that Karen!
@@Amorous578 Now THAT, is pure revenge!
Marshall JCM 800, 💯W, hot-modded by Dirk Baldringer; i played with a befriended musician/drummer, we could go all up with the volume...it was a tornado of tone, almost swept me out of the rehearsal-room, an earthquake, a landslide, a wrecking-ball...
never experienced this before.
So loud that it generated FEAR (limbic-system) !
Thank You, Volker (R.I.P.) !
I wake up my neighbors every Sunday morning with the national anthem at 1 o clock on my fender champ, I don’t even go that loud w my band
Great way to get a brick through your window.
Hahahaha, nice!! Didn't know it was that loud.
I have a Fender Roc Pro (actually I have 2) and I played a concert on volume 4-5 where the rest of the band went through the main sound system :D :D
Full volume on that amp would probably be able to shoot planes out of the sky
I have the Katana 2x12 MKII, and yes I can concur it is very loud. Even on 2/10 volume. I've never even turned mine up to 10 just to see how loud it gets but I'm sure you can hear the thing a mile away
I love that kind of thing. I remember one night in early 1990 I put a Boss DS-1 through a 100 Watt Laney solid state head into a WEM cab! I got my friends to drive nearly 1k away and they heard it! So did the next door neighbours and I ran back in and tripped over the leads! Lol!
I remember demoing an amp about this size when I was ~16... as I was playing at a level we could still talk at, the store rep asked me if it was loud enough, I thought he meant total available power, so I dime it and blow our ears out, "Yeah, I think it's alright."
Half cranked my dads modified jcm 800 one day, played one g chord and the house shook and the lights started to flicker, never have experience something as cool as that
I grew up in the days of 100 watt Marshall stacks as the gold standard, we were also stupid enough to lug around Hammond B3s...
Ok 🏳️🌈
@@chrise.3814 know one cares that you're gay dude
This is the youtube videos I want to see
Why the ear pro?
Try that with a 100 watt jcm800 or a plexy and see what loud is. But, that is cool nonetheless. My Marshall original 50 thru a 4x12 was stupid loud and I played in the garage with the doors closed.
I don't know much about guitars but damn...
Those are some nice Crocs™.
your house is a vibe
The 12" speaker limits this thing so hard. If you rewire it so you can use other cabs, this thing really gets going. I now use my katana100 with a Engl 4x12, this small box fucking slaps.
Yeah my band's other guitarist happened to have the MK I head unit so I built a 2x12 cab at home to go with it for shows and use my MK II 100 combo for recording/practicing.
@@RetrOchannel I got a 2x12 selfbuilt V30 on it now. Crazy Thing.
You can get that rockstar feeling
Did this with a Super Reverb in a rural village whilst other folk were mowing and had their stereo turned up to hear whilst mowing, but the cops still came.
Being outdoors I could spot them approaching a mile away and flipped the standby switch before they traced the source of me playing along with the neighbours stereo.
Think it was that french pop punk thing from the 70s, Ça plane pour moi
The crocs and ear protection are the best!
Did this with a hughes and kettner full stack while soundchecking in a local theatre. About 150 capacity. The bottles on the bar rack were rattling. 😂
He should give those ear protection to his neighbors😂😂😂
I just bought one and want to do this too! LOL Rock on brother!
Nice crocs dude
Assuming the mics on the camera, the difference between the katana's volume and spoken volume shows how insanely loud this is.
Loud, maybe, but bass response is nonexistent. Sounds terrible at this volume, might as well not go up this high. Still need a real PA system for actual performance.
@@zxbc1 You're judging it based on a phone microphone, which is then being compressed for TH-cam. Even without that, the settings being used could also have no bass involved.
As a guitar tech the one proven way of shutting someone up that’s complaining about fret buzz on their electric is plug em into a loud amp. They immediately get sheepish and play softer, problem solved.
That sounds glorious. I can only imagine in person
My dad bought me a 1000w bass amp a while back. I have to keep the volume knob in between 0 and 1 because anything higher will start to rattle the windows
Did he buy it from a man with a handlebar stache and cowboy hat by any chance?
i just got the artist MKII Head and have two 4x12 ready on standby for my neighbors in my trailer park lmao. im using it mostly as a daw device but the cabs are for when the neighbors get loud so i can get loudest.
You know its loud when you need hearing protection 🗿
Back in the day I had an ADA pre and power amp set up. 200 watts coming out of a rewired Peavey 4x12 for stereo (2x12 Left x Right). I cranked it up once and my hearing has never been the same and that was 30 years ago😅
It is very loud indeed. And with a mic, you fill a stadium.
That’s mostly because of the PA
Oh sounds better than what I've heard in the store. Looks like it likes to be cranked
god that tone is nasty beautiful
I did this with my amp when Fast Eddie Clarke moved in next door to me.
He knocked on the door the next day and presented me with a pair of headphones 🎧
Whoa, THE "Fast" Eddie Clarke?!
Years ago we would throw house parties in empty houses that were between occupants, i remember the going to extreme lengths to make it look like we werent partying in a vacant house having people park off the street and walk and when we turned up the amps the cops always showed up and it became a game of 30 person hide and seek.
I have the Katana Artist and it’s insanely loud if you want it to be. I only wish the noisegate could be set from the front panel, because it needs one.
This amp very super loud??
I have the same amp, but have never looked up a video for it and this is pops up in my recommended. My phone has me dialed in to a T. Lol
I really wanna try this with my Hiwatt DR504 with the 4x12 cab. I now use it at 20% max mastervolume and still need earbuds. Guess i’m popping some windows
Blew up dad's old Traynor this way when I was a kid.
An old 1980s Carvin Head and a 5150. Two heads. Live when I could really push it it would move my pant legs from the air they were pushing through my 3 4x12 cabs. I miss that.
dang that’s pretty OP😂 respect
Bet your neighbors love you
Is the mic on the camera? I would hate to play next to that lol
Yeah it is lol
Nice 😊
I tried this with an old Marshall Super Lead - 100W all tubes, powering 2 cabs: one being a 4x12", the other with 4x15" Fane speakers.
Couldn't obviously do this anywhere near anything remotely fragile (like a nuclear missile silo), so I put it in an old vault underneath a railway station. Double doors, seriously thick.
Luckily I played wireless at that time, so I turned my guitar completely off, then volume on the amp to max, and closed those doors behind me. Then turned up the guitar & hit a powerchord.
Building's no longer there.
🤘🤘
Why didn’t you play 0-3-5
FUCK
We're getting to the point where we're able to play small/medium size shows with combo amps and I'm all for it._
Obviously you should still if available mic the amp up to a PA. But things are getting really impressive at affordable prices.
getting to? i think it was always possible. i got a 20w tube combo, never went past half on the master volume with a drummer.
when i play at a medium sized bar i have my preset volumes around 15 and master at 50 and its almost too loud, fully cranked the sound would be insane
so it's enough for room practice isn't it?
juuust about right
is it the 2x12 version? i don’t think mine gets this loud (100mkII 1x12) but i never got it to 100% volume
Fender twin is vicious but more clear i have a 1979 pro reverb that 70 rms its a great platform for pedals but in confined spaces its a beast
If you are going to be blasting that, let us know how the cabinet hold up, they are very thin. Have the 60, it has not been on anything but 1/2 watt and never above 3, but since this has turned into a I remember when....
I had a Little Marshall 12 watt SS amp and some guy in the apartment above me wanted to hear it, instead of him coming down I pointed it out the window and cranked it, at like 2:00am. The super was at my door after a few minutes of 2112 all grey, I was on the fourth floor overlooking acres of houses.
And as a weapon, guy is slamming doors in a shared accommodation house, my room wall has the bathroom on the other side, one day he knocked his way into there and I gave it a min and then blasted my 20watt Marshall just making noise. The walls in my room were ringing when I was done. He did not make as much noise after that.
What were you playing around 0:09? Love that sound
@@Jackson-fq9lc Just random noodling honestly, but if you enjoy that type of playing maybe my band will have some similar riffs? We're called prospect of rain on Spotify n stuff
I got thrown out of the house for maxing-out my Ampeg Gemini IV in 1969...in the basement! LOL! Twenty years later, the police showed up when I maxed my Fender Twin and when they asked me what I was doing, I told them that I was practicing hymns for Sunday Mass at church...Actually I was learning Hymn 43 on the Aqualung album...they made me turn everything off. I say "Turn It Up" if your ears and brain can handle it! Cool video BTW.
My neighbors love my loud amp so much, they threw a brick through my window so they could hear it better.
This reminds me about something that happened many years ago. A friend called me from a club and wanted me to listen how well the music sounds in there. Of course on my phone it sounded like crap. It was a pointless phone call much like this video.