Tech 21 power engine 1x12

thomasw88

Anyone used one with a fractal fm9 for stage monitoring?. Currently I’ve got a quilter tb202 paired with a zilla ported 1x12 loaded with celestion copper back neo which sounds pretty darn good tbh, but wondering if one of these power engines with a decent speaker in it would sound good.

 I appreciate this is just gas but I think if I’m not wearing iems then I’d rather hear the fm9 through an amp on stage. Are these any better than porting a Peavey bandit or similar around?

Musicwolf

I had one many years ago (paired with a POD HD500).

Light, no background noise but the speaker (Celestion Seventy 80) let it down in my opinion.

thomasw88

Musicwolf said:

I had one many years ago (paired with a POD HD500).

Light, no background noise but the speaker (Celestion Seventy 80) let it down in my opinion.

I'd read that.  I believe you can change the 70/80 speaker for something else although the older one had a different speaker which was trickier to do. I've a few speakers lying about so would have some options.

snowblind

I had a Tech 21 PE60 a couple of year back. Fine when it was set up right but I had a lot of fun keeping it quiet. The switched PSU and the grounding scheme made it very noisy if you didn't get things right. There's a loop plug that had to go into the XLR when the regular guitar input jack was being used and it also needed some kind on buffered pedal in front otherwise it buzzed like an angry hornet. They actually talk about this in the manual. Works fine if you are plugging in some of the other Tech21 devices via the xlr so you may be fine with the quilter. 

I think I bought it just for portability reasons but in the end I went back to lugging a 2x12 combo around. It never sounded better than "ok" and the overhead of keeping it quiet was just annoying. 

thomasw88

snowblind said:

I had a Tech 21 PE60 a couple of year back. Fine when it was set up right but I had a lot of fun keeping it quiet. The switched PSU and the grounding scheme made it very noisy if you didn't get things right. There's a loop plug that had to go into the XLR when the regular guitar input jack was being used and it also needed some kind on buffered pedal in front otherwise it buzzed like an angry hornet. They actually talk about this in the manual. Works fine if you are plugging in some of the other Tech21 devices via the xlr so you may be fine with the quilter. 

I think I bought it just for portability reasons but in the end I went back to lugging a 2x12 combo around. It never sounded better than "ok" and the overhead of keeping it quiet was just annoying. 

Ok thats the type of info I'm after.
It sounds like a pain to use tbh, so I think I'll keep using the Quilter/Zilla combo. I was  just seeing if there was  something lighter/easier to port around as I'm lazy..

welshboyo

thomasw88 said:

snowblind said:

I had a Tech 21 PE60 a couple of year back. Fine when it was set up right but I had a lot of fun keeping it quiet. The switched PSU and the grounding scheme made it very noisy if you didn't get things right. There's a loop plug that had to go into the XLR when the regular guitar input jack was being used and it also needed some kind on buffered pedal in front otherwise it buzzed like an angry hornet. They actually talk about this in the manual. Works fine if you are plugging in some of the other Tech21 devices via the xlr so you may be fine with the quilter. 

I think I bought it just for portability reasons but in the end I went back to lugging a 2x12 combo around. It never sounded better than "ok" and the overhead of keeping it quiet was just annoying. 

Ok thats the type of info I'm after.
It sounds like a pain to use tbh, so I think I'll keep using the Quilter/Zilla combo. I was  just seeing if there was  something lighter/easier to port around as I'm lazy..

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